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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 12/03/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 8 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Total Copies: 7 Genres: Comedy, Road Movie, Satire, Religious Comedy See Also: Dogma [Special Edition], Dogma [Fullscreen], Dogma [Blu-ray], Dogma [UMD for PSP]

Would you believe that the last living descendent of Jesus Christ is a woman working at an abortion clinic in Illinois? And that she's been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides? Prepare to suspend any and all disbelief as you watch the religious satire Dogma, the fourth film from writer/director Kevin Smith. Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) has been disappointed in life and has found her faith severely tested after her husband leaves her when she discovers she cannot have children. So Bethany is all the more puzzled when she's approached by Metatron (Alan Rickman), a grumpy angel. Metatron wants her to help him stop Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon), two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise, have escaped from exile and are heading to New Jersey. If they are able to pass through the arc of a certain church, it will prove God is fallible and the world will come to a swift end. Bethany has no idea what to do or why she's been given this project, but she heads out anyway, with her assigned assistants Jay (Jason Mewes), an appallingly rude former dope dealer and self-styled ladies man, and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith). Along the way, Bethany picks up more helpers, including a celestial muse named Serendipity (Salma Hayek) and Rufus (Chris Rock), who claims to have been the 13th apostle and that Jesus owes him 12 dollars. Boasting a huge supporting cast -- including George Carlin, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Bud Cort, and Alanis Morissette (as God) -- Dogma proved to be highly controversial even before its release. Miramax Pictures, owned by Disney, financed the film, but several weeks before Dogma's world premier at the Cannes Film Festival, they announced they would not release the picture and intended to sell it to another distributor (which would turn out to be Lions Gate Films). Director Smith, however, has always contended that Dogma is a film about the importance of faith, if not organized religion. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Ben Affleck - Bartleby
George Carlin - Cardinal Glick
Matt Damon - Loki
Linda Fiorentino - Bethany
Salma Hayek - Serendipity
Jason Lee - Azrael
Jason Mewes - Jay
Alan Rickman - Metatron
Chris Rock - Rufus

Kevin Smith's controversial religious comedy Dogma was first released on DVD in this package. The image is a solid 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, but a full-frame 1.33:1 image is available as well. The English soundtrack is in Dolby Digital 5.1 while the French soundtrack is recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. Subtitles are accessible in English, Spanish, and French. This relatively bare-bones release contains only talent bios and theatrical trailers for extra material. One year later, Dogma would be re-issued in a deluxe edition that would contain, among other things, over one hour of deleted material. If you are interested in just the movie, this is a fine disc. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide