Mercy (DVD & Blu-Ray)

Mercy (Blu-Ray) (*)

$20.99

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Patrick Hoelck

Written By:
Scott Caan

Actors:
Whitney Able ..... Heather
Bre Blair ..... Erik
John Boyd ..... Dorian
Dorian Brown ..... Gerry Ryan
James Caan ..... Johnny Ryan
Scott Caan ..... Nigel
Thom Cammer ..... Robin
Erika Christensen ..... Front Desk Girl
Kayley FitzMaurice ..... Dane
Troy Garity ..... Himself
Balthazar Getty ..... Chris
Alexie Gilmore ..... Mercy Bennett
Wendy Glenn ..... Herself
Kelly Lynch ..... Orderly
Milton A. Marsh III
Dylan McDermott ..... Jake
Faye Yvette McQueen ..... Tailgater
R. Lee Miller ..... Party Guest
John Mitchell ..... Gala Party Attendee
Eddie Noone ..... Philanthropist / Benefit Attendee
Rachel Sterling
Anita Storr ..... Irish Pub Patron
Jamie Strange ..... Jessica
Michael Testone ..... Bartender
Jessa Zarubica

Synopsis:

Johnny Ryan, is a reformed bad boy who in his aimless younger days raised hell and bounced in and out of jail. His life turned around when he (somewhat incongruously) began writing best-selling romance novels that have made him a minor literary star and a supposed expert on love, about which he actually knows next to nothing. If he is charismatic, he is also borderline insufferable. Johnny can barely take care of himself. He lives in a roomy but drab Los Angeles space furnished with only the barest necessities and hangs out with a clique of macho cretins for whom friendship is almost synonymous with butting heads. When frustrated he picks fights that can end with his breaking down and weeping like a baby. Johnny is a chip off the old block, that block being his father, Gerry (James Caan), a writing professor, who appears late in the movie. When the father and son get together in Gerry's rural cabin and philosophize about love (Gerry has decided it never lasts), the characters and the actors, who are father and son, blur into each other.

Mercy, a portrait of a sub-Mailer-like literary pugilist and the woman (named Mercy) who wins his heart. Odd as that juxtaposition may seem, it's not a bad mix. The movie, directed by Patrick Hoelck and starring Scott Caan, who wrote the screenplay and served as one of its producers, may be something of a vanity project. (It is his third produced screenplay, after 'Dallas 362' and 'The Dog Problem.') But it allows Mr. Caan to deliver a complex portrait of a womanizing bully with a cream-puff heart.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 09 September, 2012.