The Friend - DVD

For Manhattan writer Iris (Naomi Watts), there was much she was unable to process about the suicide of her beloved mentor and collaborator Walter (Bill Murray)-including why he chose to leave her Apollo, his 180-pound Great Dane. While striving to integrate the huge pooch into her life (and apartment), she realizes that he's also coming to terms with grief, and that there could be room for mutual support. Affecting take on the Sigrid Nunez novel co-stars Sarah Pidgeon, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, Ann Dowd. 120 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

Dandy Tommy Valentine meets and falls for Barbara the niece of Socialite Bedelia Smith but fails to learn her name so he is forced to consult a 'Swami mystic' to learn her identity. Meanwhile Bedelia's lay-about nephew Charlie who blames his late nights on a fictitious Hindu Prince he is entertaining finds himself pressed to bring his royal friend to guarantee the success of his mother's up coming soiree. 74 minutes with theatre organ score by David Knudtson a delightful blend of live-action and animation in the included Dinky Doodle short InchTHE ARCTICInch - 7 minutes.

Our Friend tells the true, inspiring, heartbreaking and beguiling story of the Teague family-journalist Matt (Casey Affleck), his vibrant wife Nicole (Dakota Johnson) and their two young daughters-when their lives are upended by Nicole's diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly exhausting and overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux (Jason Segel) offers to come and help. But when Dane recognizes the unrelenting toll being taken on Matt, Nicole and the two girls, he puts his life on hold to remain with his friends to the very end. The impact of this generous, albeit complicated, gesture proves greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined.