Bad Day at Black Rock - BluRay [Blu-ray]

Appearances are everything in Hollywood. So when conniving moviemaker Jonathan Shields realizes few mourners will show up for the funeral of his equally conniving father, he knows what to do: hire extras. Kirk Douglas gives a magnetic, Oscar -nominated performance as Shields, who turns talent, charisma and ruthlessness into film success, stomping on careers and creating enemies along the way. Vincente Minnelli directs this winner of fiv

Despite the weather being rotten, worthless alcoholic Bernie (Mark Burns) thought it the right time to take his estranged little daughter Winnie (Beatrice Edney) on a jaunt to a seaside town. He'd pretty much leave the child to her own devices as he'd try to charm, and cadge drinks, from the various locals he encountered. Downbeat, thought-lost study, adapted by Roman Polanski from a Heere Heeresma novel, co-stars Fiona Lewis, Eva Dahlbeck, Jack McGowran, and a pseudonymously billed Peter Sellers. 92 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English (SDH); featurettes. Region Free

A disastrous drunken episode lands successful New York journalist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) inrehab where she encounters a bizarre assortment of characters and some unique rituals during her touching and often hilarious road to recovery.