October DVD Competition 2015

Love and Mercy

Love & Mercy tells the true story behind the musical visionary who challenged the sound of the 1960s. Brian Wilson in the ’60s (Paul Dano) makes the decision to stop touring with the Beach Boys and focuses on experimenting with a new sound that would set the tone for the decade. “Pet Sounds” is one of the most innovative and influential musical albums of all time, featuring classic hits ‘God Only Knows’ and ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’. The 1980s Brian Wilson (John Cusack) finds the true meaning of life, when he meets the woman who would turn out to be his soul mate, protector and future wife, Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks). It is Melinda’s devotion and love that forces Brian to slowly discover what’s best about himself and how the music holds him together.

Woman in Gold

Woman in Gold is the remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family. Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Gustav Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court, and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.

Danny Collins

Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can’t give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Written and Directed by Dan Fogelman, Danny Collins stars Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer.

The Rewrite

Once upon a time Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) was an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful films have left him with nothing but bad debts and blank pages. So when his agent arranges a job as a guest screenwriting professor at a remote university in upstate New York, a desperate Keith can’t say no. Initially hoping to give minimal effort to actual teaching so he can focus on his next script, Keith unexpectedly finds himself becoming invested in his students’ lives, including Holly (Marisa Tomei), a single mom looking to start her own new chapter.

Competition is now closed.