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Closed Caption; Director and producer's commentary; Slang dictionary; Making-of featurette; Theatrical trailers
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1. Start [:14]
2. The Avery Sisters [3:42]
3. Cornelius [2:06]
4. An Odd Tattoo [2:15]
5. Frances Avery [2:06]
6. Detective Giovanni Malloy [2:10]
7. Detective Richard Rodriguez [6:40]
8. Pauline Avery [4:59]
9. Drinks with Malloy [6:18]
10. Mugged on W. Broadway [4:46]
11. Disarticulation Defined [1:30]
12. Art of the Chicken Lady [2:53]
13. Missing Charm [5:15]
14. John Graham [6:34]
15. How Father Proposed to Mother [8:00]
16. Another Girl Murdered [3:05]
17. Mug Shots [4:28]
18. Terms of Engagement [5:25]
19. Going Away for a While [:29]
20. "I'm Going to Ask Pauline Out" [4:39]
21. In the Bag [1:22]
22. "Recognize This?" [3:40]
23. Mixed Signals [3:46]
24. An Exhausting Relationship [6:37]
25. Frannie in Control [3:27]
26. "It Was You!" [3:44]
27. Mark of the Devil [3:19]
28. The Long Walk Home [3:39]
Meg Ryan sheds her perky, girl-next-door image for good with this gripping erotic thriller, directed with style and panache by Jane Campion. Ryan portrays Fran Thorstin, a lonely, 30-something college professor who embarks on a most unlikely affair with a coarse police detective named Malloy (Mark Ruffalo). Malloy is supposedly investigating a sex murder in Thorstin’s New York neighborhood, but when the cop begins acting strangely, she starts to doubt his sincerity. The story is rather tawdry and not at all the type of material you'd think a filmmaker with Campion’s art house credentials would be drawn to, but she does a fine job capturing both the gritty Manhattan milieu and the erotically charged coupling of Ryan and Ruffalo. Ultimately, the solution to the murder mystery is less important than Thorstin’s personal odyssey, as she abandons her humdrum routine to adopt a strikingly different and potentially dangerous course of behavior. Her journey is all the more compelling thanks to Ryan's performance, the most eye-opening turn this actress has delivered in years. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble
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