Checking through our list of films currently scheduled for release this week on DVD and/or Blu-ray disc, we are pleased to feature two that fall into the mystery, suspense, thriller and/or adventure category …
• End of Watch starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña; and
• The Paperboy starring John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, and Zac Efron.
See also a list of current mystery and suspense DVD, Blu-ray, or VOD deals on Amazon.com.
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End of Watch (2012)
Written and directed by David Ayer.
Watch a trailer for the film below.
Film Synopsis (from the studio): Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña star as two young LA police officers, who discover a secret that makes them the target of the country's most dangerous drug cartel.
Running time: 109 minutes. Rating: R for strong violence, some disturbing images, pervasive language including sexual references, and some drug use.
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The Paperboy (2012)
Directed by Lee Daniels from an adapted screenplay co-written with Peter Dexter, and based on Dexter's novel of the same title (more information below).
Watch a trailer for the film below.
Film Synopsis (from the studio): It all begins in the steamy rural backwater of Moat County, Florida, where things have been done the same way for decades, yet change is bubbling beneath the surface. Boyish Jack Jansen (Zac Efron), son of the local newspaper publisher, has just returned home after being kicked out of college, only to take the lowly job of paperboy. But that too changes when his idolized journalist brother Ward (Matthew McConaughey) comes to town from Miami on the trail of a story that could make his career. Bringing in tow his hotshot writing partner Yardley (David Oyelowo) and the alluring death-row groupie Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), Ward plans to prove that an innocent man has been railroaded on his way to the electric chair.
With Jack as their driver, the quartet arranges to meet Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), the seedy alligator hunter hastily convicted of killing the local sheriff, at the prison. But what erupts between them all is a tangled web of sexual tension, mixed motives and shadowy facts that will set off not only a search for the truth but a chain reaction of passion and violence. Observing it all is Jack's only real confidante — the disregarded family maid Anita — who watches in dismay as his innocence is turned inside out.
Running time: 107 minutes. Rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language.
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The Paperboy
Pete Dexter
The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry.
Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free — and meet — her convicted "fiancé".
With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news.
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