Stillwater (2021) - Matt Damon, Tom McCarthy

[CelestialAgent]

Date TBA from eOne

A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.

https://store.hmv.com/store/film-tv/blu-ray/stillwater

[fatboyslim142]

I was at the Everyman Cinema in Harrogate last week & where they'd normally have the films listed above the entrance etc, they had made the following joke with the title that was changed the day after (ie last Friday) for new films.

Stillwater. Can't wait for the sequel, Sparklingwater.

[CelestialAgent]

My mum got it confused with Dark Waters

Stillwater is a relatively minor aspect of the plot though so perhaps they should have chosen a stronger one

[McCrutchy]

It's slightly surprising, but eOne are doing their own disc for this film, it seems:



I guess eOne can't have / don't want the encode Universal is using, even though their disc will be distributed by Universal. I know this happens all the time, but it seems like a waste of resources to do two different encodes for the US and the UK when the latter disc is not being sold anywhere else (except perhaps Australia) and the distributor is technically the same. IMDb claims that the film has a Dolby Atmos mix, but it's not listed on Dolby's site and the Universal disc has only 5.1 audio according to the back cover:

[Show spoiler]

The US release is out on Tuesday, so I will probably pick it up.