Susan Sarandon's Atlantic City coming to DVD

Winner of two BAFTAs and nominated for five Academy Awards, Network will release Louis Malle’s poignant but strangely sweet tale of a decaying city and the dreams of the deviant characters that reside within its walls with the release of Atlantic City, out to buy on DVD on 4th August 2008.

Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster (The Leopard, Elmer Gantry) turns in one of the best performances of career in this gripping, moving masterpiece by French New Wave director Louis Malle (Damaged). He is Lou, an aging, deluded, small- time crook who scrapes a living running numbers for the mob. In his fantasies, he is a big fish in with the big boys like Al Capone. His life takes an interesting turn when he encounters Dave (Robert Joy – CSI: NY, Land of the Dead), a young cocaine dealer who attempts to sell the wares he stole from some heavyweight gangsters before arriving in Atlantic City.

The broad is his attractive, ambitious oyster bar waitress partner, Sally (Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise, Speed Racer), eager to learn in order to make way for a better life. But Dave’s actions have inevitable consequences resulting in opportunity for Lou in this transfixing, atmospheric tale about love, honour, drugs and money.

Louis Malle paints a vivid picture of the sad, seedy lives of a group of loners in this tale which won numerous accolades including two BAFTAS (Best Actor and Best Direction) and was nominated for 5 Oscars. Their forlorn existence contrasts sharply with their dreams of wealth and success.

In between beautifully choreographed action sequences, the disappearing resort of Atlantic City – subsequently the disappearing era – can be glimpsed in the pile of rubble and the demolition works and vacant lots surrounding the doomed building in which these characters find themselves thriving to realise their individual dreams.

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