Down To You

• Cert:
• Cat.no: VCD 0056
• Running time: 88 minutes
• Year: 2000
• Pressing: 2000
• Region(s): 2, PAL
• Chapters: 16 plus extras
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English
• Widescreen: 1.85:1
• 16:9-enhanced: Yes
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £19.99
• Extras: Trailer, TV Spots, Music Video,Behind-the-scenes footage, Interviews
  

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  Director:

  Kris Isacsson

Producer:

Screenplay:

Music

Featuring:

Alfred “Al” Connelly: Freddie Prinze Jr
Imogen: Julia Stiles
Cyrus: Selma Blair
Eddie Hicks: Shawn Hatosy
Monk Jablonski: Zak Orth
Jim Morrison: Ashton Kutcher
Lana: Rosario Dawson
Chef Ray Connelly: Henry Winkler
Judy Connelly: Lucie Arnaz

The First Love is the one you’ll always remember,but this film, despite a few funny moments, is one you’re likely to forgetas it treads a very pedestrian path as Alfred “Al” Connelly (FreddiePrinze Jr) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) meet up while in school,although the film plays in flashback after the event with comments to camerafrom both of the couple.

Of course, the path of true love never runs smooth, things go wrong as adalliance without a rubber leads to the requirements of a pregnancy test kitpurchases and Al is seduced by sultry MIT student-cum-porn star Cyrus(Selma Blair).

Imogen’s temptations take things to the limit when they split up as aresult of her bedding school drop-out Jim Morrison (Ashton Kutcher)who takes his namesake’s theory of “free love” too far. The film alsostars Zak Orth as one of Al’s friends and a major new porn star toboot, plus Fonzie Henry Winkler as the lead’s father, America’sanswer to Anthony Worrall-Thompson, Chef Ray Connelly.

This is one of the best-looking DVDs VCI have ever released. No artifactson view, strong colours and realistic flesh tones are available for all tosee and the film is presented in the original 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreenratio.The average bitrate is a high 7.4Mbs, often peaking over 9Mb/s.

The sound is Dolby Digital 5.1. It’s fine, but never needs to push theboat out, often producing drippy teen tunes plus a song from one-hit wonderBillie Myers.

Finally, we have the Billie Myers’s Music Video, “It All ComesDown To You”, which – and this is the first time I’ve seen somethinglike this – includes B-roll ‘making of’ footage afterwards.

Subtitles are in English only and there are just a mere 16 chapters to thefilm’s length while the menus are silent and static.

Overall, this would be far from my pick of the week but if you’re a fanit looks fantastic and has a few interesting extras even if you’ll rarelygo back to them.

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