Product Description

STORIES OF LOST SOULS compiles six intriguing sometimes unsettling vignettes of human will and courage. An all-star cast that includes Cate Blanchett Hugh Jackman and Paul Bettany appear in this collection of short films shot in an indie style.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: NR UPC: 084296407552 Manufacturer No: 40755

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40346 in DVD
• Brand: PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAIN
• Released on: 2005-02-03
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Features

• STORIES OF LOST SOULS compiles six intriguing, sometimes unsettling vignettes of human will and courage. An all-star cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, and Paul Bettany appear in this collection of short films shot in an indie style. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 084296407552 UPC: 084296407552 Manufacturer No: 40755

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly good!
When the blurb about this DVD says it has an all-star cast, it's not kidding. Each of these short vignettes has not one but several bona fide stars, from Cate Blanchette as a young woman coming unglued over dinner to James Gandolfini as a man waking up from a drunken stupor to find that his wife has left him and, quite literally, taken EVERYTHING. I have to admit that I didn't expect much at all from this DVD, in part because I'd never heard of it and in part because it came from the bottom of the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. However, it really is surprisingly good. The vignettes themselves are a bit uneven - my favorites were "Standing Room Only" (a wordless, nearly slapstick piece starring Hugh Jackman) and "Euston Road" (a short and clever tale of a down-on-his-luck gambler who isn't quite what he seems). Even if there are only a few of the pieces that you really, really enjoy, for the $5 used DVD price, you can't go wrong. Give Stories of Lost Souls a try.

Don't buy it -- the cast is wasted here!
As another reviewer indicates, this is truly terrible stuff, an embarrassment to the cast for sure. It's as if the writer-directors shared the same persuasive agent, and somehow the project, despite the amateurish scripts, had great early word-of-mouth, and the actors said "yes." Poor them. It wants to be a contemporary, British Twilight Zone, and misses by a mile because of the twin evils of dreadful writing and directing, on every single vignette. My copy goes straight to ebay.

Disappointing
In every story, I kept waiting for something interesting to happen, and it never did. The description on the DVD sounded like they should be scary, or at least a little twisted, but nothing ever really happened. As the other reviews say, the actors talent is wasted.