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Dom Robinson reviews

Down To You

A new comedy about giving first love a second chance.

Distributed by
Film Four

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

Director:

Kris Isacsson

Producer:

Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente

Screenplay:

Kris Isacsson

Music

Edmund Choi

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 forget as it treads a very pedestrian path as Alfred "Al" Connelly (Freddie Prinze Jr) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) meet up while in school, although the film plays in flashback after the event with comments to camera from both of the couple.

Of course, the path of true love never runs smooth, things go wrong as a dalliance without a rubber leads to the requirements of a pregnancy test kit purchases 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 a result of her bedding school drop-out Jim Morrison (Ashton Kutcher) who takes his namesake's theory of "free love" too far. The film also stars Zak Orth as one of Al's friends and a major new porn star to boot, plus Fonzie Henry Winkler as the lead's father, America's answer to Anthony Worrall-Thompson, Chef Ray Connelly.

This is one of the best-looking DVDs VCI have ever released. No artifacts on view, strong colours and realistic flesh tones are available for all to see and the film is presented in the original 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio. 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 the boat out, often producing drippy teen tunes plus a song from one-hit wonder Billie Myers.

Extras :

A 2-minute Trailer, two TV Spots lasting a total of 60 seconds, 24 minutes of Interviews with several members of the cast carved up into soundbites, 12 minutes of Behind-the-scenes footage shown raw and uncut in which nothing gets in the way of the work-in-progress.

Finally, we have the Billie Myers's Music Video, "It All Comes Down To You", which - and this is the first time I've seen something like this - includes B-roll 'making of' footage afterwards.

Subtitles are in English only and there are just a mere 16 chapters to the film'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 fan it looks fantastic and has a few interesting extras even if you'll rarely go back to them.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000

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