Forty Shades of Blue |  | Actors: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Andrew Henderson (III), Liz Morton (III), Joanne Pankow
Studio: First Look Pictures
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FLPD80029D
UPC: 687797800299
EAN: 0687797800299
Release Date: June 13, 2006
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Product Description
While living with a famous record producer 30 years her senior, a beautiful young Russian woman begins experiencing severe feelings of loneliness and isolation. When her lover's estranged son from a previous marriage visits, she begins a tumultuous affair with him that sends her on a journey of self-discovery. Insightful drama stars Rip Torn, Dina Korzun, Darren E. Burrows. 109 min. Soundtrack: English.
In Forty Shades of Blue, writer/director Ira Sachs takes three archetypes--temperamental artist, trophy wife, and brooding writer--and turns them into real people. Alan (Rip Torn, The Larry Sanders Show), producer of numerous R&B hits, is a Memphis legend in the Sam Phillips mold. On a trip to Russia a few years ago, he met the much younger Laura (Dina Korzun, Last Resort), who became his common-law wife. They had a child. It should be a good life, except fidelity is not part of Alan's vocabulary. Michael (Darren Burrows, Northern Exposure), adult son from one of his many previous marriages, is an English teacher and aspiring author. When Michael travels from LA for a rare visit, he quickly realizes it's easier to talk to Laura than to his own father--or even his own wife, who decides to join him later. The more Alan, who perceives himself as a man of action, ignores Laura and belittles the introspective Michael, however, the closer they become. But how much of their attraction is based on lust and how much is based on a mutual desire to get back at the larger-than-life hitmaker for his misdeeds? Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Forty Shades of Blue may sound like soap opera, but in the patient, attentive hands of Sachs (The Delta), it never plays like it. Alan, Michael, and Laura are neither heroes nor villains; just three lonely people trapped in self-contained worlds of their own creation. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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