DVD
REVIEW: COUNTRY STRONG
4/11/11
OVERVIEW: Academy Award® winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Best Actress, Shakespeare in Love, 1998), three-time Grammy Award® winner Tim McGraw (The Blind Side), Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy), and Leighton Meester (The Roommate, TV’s “Gossip Girl”) and bring a quartet of star power to the inspirational movie about second chances - Country Strong, debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD April 12th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Paltrow plays a country music star seeking to revive her music career after a stint in rehab.
SYNOPSIS: Soon after a rising young singer (Garrett Hedlund) gets involved with a fallen country star (Gwyneth Paltrow), the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager (Tim McGraw) and featuring a beauty queen-turned-singer
( Meester).
DVD: The film is
presented in widescreen with a 2.40:1 aspect ration preserving its theatrical
format. Sony
Pictures Home
Entertainment has done it again with this transfer. Not only the picture looks
excellent in this release, also the sound it is good. A
Dolby Digital English and French 5.1 Surround providing a nice complement to the
picture it also includes English, French and Spanish
subtitles.
In terms of special features
the DVD includes the original ending, music videos with Sara Evans and Gwyneth Paltrow, deleted scenes, and an extended performance of “Shake that Thing” by Gwyneth Paltrow.
VIDEO:
Widescreen (2.40:1) [16:9 Transfer]
AUDIO:
English and
French 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles - English, French and Spanish
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
Original Ending
Music Video: “A Little Bit Stronger” by Sara Evans
Music Video: “Country Strong” by Gwyneth Paltrow
Extended Performance of “Shake That Thing” by Gwyneth Paltrow
Deleted Scenes
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