Release Date: 10/09/2007
Label/Distributor: BFS
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price: $24.98
Genre: Drama Cast: Nicholas Bell, Barry Otto, Miranda Otto, Mark Wilson, Syd Brisbane
Director: John Ruane
Running Time: 90
DVD Video Options: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen
DVD Audio Options: English, Original Language
UPC Code: 066805307997
"...constantly surprises... real emotional depth." - Variety
"...spirited, hopeful... poignant and matter-of-fact, funny..." - The Sydney Morning Herald
WINNER Golden Tripod Award Australian Cinematographers Society / NOMINEE Best Production Design/Best Original Screenplay Australian Film Institute / WINNER Best Original Film Script Australian Writers' Guild / NOMINEE Best Actress Film Critics Circle of Australia / NOMINEE Best Original Screenplay Film Critics Circle of Australia / WINNER Best Artistic Contribution Verona Love Screens Film Festival
The last resort for fading dreams
Alice's (Miranda Otto - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) girlhood fantasies of finding her father are twisted into a bundle of letters, returned unopened from the postal service's Dead Letter Office. Hoping to learn anything that will locate her dad, Alice takes a job at the Dead Letter Office, supervised by Frank (George DelHoyo - Frasier, Days of Our Lives), a gloomy man hiding from his past. Their paths have crossed for a reason and when Alice's search for her father breaks the rules, Frank is jolted from his numbing routine...
Special Features: Cast Profiles / Trailer
approx. 90 mins. col. WIDESCREEN
Dead Letter Office
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By Ed Hulse -- Video Business, 9/10/2007
BFS ENTERTAINMENTStreet: Oct. 9
Prebook: Sept. 11
> Generally engaging romance will have to overcome unintentionally misleading package art.
Lord of the Rings' Miranda Otto plays an unhappy young woman who takes a job at the postal service's Dead Letter Office, filled with stacks of returned, unread letters. She strikes up a relationship with her dour, haunted supervisor (George DelHoyo) and discovers a stack of dead letters she has written over time to her long-lost father. This Australian comedy doesn't go after cheap laughs but sustains interest by virtue of its crisply defined characters and unconventional story arc.
Shelf Talk: A winner of several awards in its native Australia, Dead Letter Office will get its primary stateside boost from Otto's Rings-related popularity. Unfortunately, the film's title and the DVD's box art of the star appearing anxious and acting suspiciously suggests a thriller rather than a gently humorous love story and could confuse retailers and consumers alike.
Romantic comedy, color, NR (mature themes, language, mild sexuality), 93 min., DVD $24.98Extras: none
Director: John Ruane
First Run: L, 1998, NA
