Struggles, from life-and-death to addictions, inform this week’s home entertainment highlights.
In The Impossible, a family vacationing in Thailand during 2004 finds itself swept up and separated by a devastating tsunami, while Any Day Now charts a loving gay couple’s attempt to form a family with a special needs child.
Characters wrestle with and wallow in sex and drug addictions in The Endless Possibility of Sky, and in grindhouse-esque prison flick K-11, a man finds himself in an LGBT jail unit lorded over by a brutal transgender prisoner.
($39.99 Blu-ray, $29.99 DVD; Summit Entertainment)
Director J.A. Bayona’s based-on-a-real-life tale takes place during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when a vacationing family was literally swept away and separated. From its incredible, visceral recreation of the horrific natural disaster to the alternately heartbreaking and inspiring events that followed, this one’s a gripping and tear-jerking must with particularly amazing performances by Naomi Watts and newcomer Tom Holland as her adolescent son. Extras include a commentary, pair of brief featurettes, and deleted scenes.
($29.99 Blu-ray, $24.99 DVD; Music Box Films)
Set in the late 1970s, Any Day Now stars Alan Cumming as a drag performer, Rudy, who forms an unconventional family unit with Paul (Garrett Dillahunt), a closeted employee of the D.A.’s office, and Marco (Isaac Leyva), an abandoned teenager with Down Syndrome. However, homophobic bureaucrats would rather see Marco dead than with a deviant couple, and so begins the loving trio’s heartbreaking legal struggle to stay together. Blu-ray extras include a making-of, Isaac Leyva’s audition, “Alan & Isaac’s Holiday Message to Hollywood,” and more.
The Endless Possibility of Sky
($24.99 DVD; Water Bearer Films)
In the latest from prolific queer filmmaker Todd Verow, a handful of characters attempt to find relief and even fulfillment in sex and drugs. Heavy, serious stuff – and yet with plenty of hot guys and action.
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K-11
($23.99 Blu-ray, $21.99 DVD; Breaking Glass Pictures)
The directorial debut of veteran script supervisor (and mother to Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart) Jules Stewart, K-11 is seriously twisted, paying homage to exploitation flicks of decades past. Goran Visjnic stars as a record producer whose homicidal drug binge lands him in an L.A. County Jail unit reserved for LGBT prisoners, where brutal Mexican trans woman Mousey rules with an iron fist. Pretty soon Raymond finds himself facing horrors that would give the cons in Oz nightmares. Extras include deleted scenes, interviews, a behind the scenes featurette, commentary, music video, and photo gallery.
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