Alan Partridge - BLU-RAY

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie returns with this audacious heist comedy-thriller. Two small-time London hoods in debt to a crooked promoter and a stolen diamond are the elements that bring together a colorful crew of smugglers, hit men, transatlantic crime bosses, boxing Irish Gypsies, and excitable dogs. Dennis Farina, Jason Flemyng, Alan Ford, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Jason Statham, and Benicio Del Toro star. 103 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital stereo, Portuguese Dolby Digital stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles English (SDH), French, Portuguese, Spanish.

Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has had many ups and downs in his life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, 'Bouncing Back', subsequently remaindered and pulped. ALAN PARTRIDGE finds Alan at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ (Colm Meaney) decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting sacked by the new management. The character Alan Partridge first appeared over twenty years ago as a BBC sports reporter on the radio show, ON THE HOUR. Since then, this wonderfully conceited, petty, anal, idiosyncratic comic creation has flourished across virtually every medium you can think of. He's been a sports reporter (again) on the seminal TV news spoof, THE DAY TODAY, host of his own TV chat show, KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, star of the fly-on-the-wall sitcom I'm ALAN PARTRIDGE, and most recently MID-MORNING MATTERS.

An aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement and the possibility of rekindling a relationship with his daughter, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters.