New DVD Double Packs for Mothers Day

MGM Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment gear up for Mother’s Day with the release of the Baby Boom/Mr. Mom Double Feature and the Return to Me/At First Sight Double Feature to DVD on May 2nd for an SRP of $19.94. 

Mr. Mom stars Michael Keaton (White Noise, Herby: Fully Loaded) and Terri Garr (Tootsie, After Hours) and was written by John Hughes (Maid in Manhattan, The Breakfast Club) and directed by Stan Dragoti (Necessary Roughness, She’s Out of Control).  One of the first films of its kind, Mr. Mom depicts the hysterical antics of household role reversal.   

At First Sight stars Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever) and Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite), and was directed by Oscar®-winner Irwin Winkler. (De-Lovely, The Net) Based on a true story by Dr. Oliver Sacks, (Awakenings) the film is about a blind man who regains his sight and must deal with the changes that follow.
 

In Baby Boom, Diane Keaton experiences the pitfalls and payoffs of instant parenthood as J.C. Wiatt, a high-powered career woman who discovers a side of herself she never knew she had – a maternal one.  Her drive to succeed in business on the tough streets of New York leave her little time to focus on anything or anyone else.  Sabotaged by a conniving colleague and ruthless boss, J.C. finds herself plummeting to the bottom of the corporate food-chain when she unexpectedly becomes the guardian to an adorable baby girl.  Even more unexpected than becoming a mother overnight is J.C.’s realization that the role of Mom is one she enjoys.   J.C. soon learns she can juggle the trials of motherhood and still have a career, but she has to fight to manage the balance on her own terms.  Baby Boom has a run time of 110 minutes and is rated PG. 

Before the era of stay-at-home dads, Mr. Mom highlighted the story of Jack (Keaton) and Caroline Butler (Garr) as a typical middle-class couple with three kids struggling to make ends meet.  But things take an amusing turn as Jack goes from electrical engineer to domestic father when he loses his job and has trouble finding a new one.  The situation gets more complicated when Caroline lands a high-paying position at an advertising agency.  While she wrestles with charts, graphs and an all-too-eager boss, Jack copes with life as a house-husband: hyper kids, a ravenous vacuum and too often, a beer for breakfast.  From daytime soap operas to long nights in the boardroom, Jack and Caroline learn what true role-reversal is when their lives turn up-side down.  Mr. Mom has a run time of 91 minutes and is rated PG.  

Return to Me melds heartache and humor in this “warm-hearted winnerâ€? (Jeff Craig, “Sixty Second Previewâ€?) about recently widowed architectural engineer Bob Rueland (Duchovny) whose life takes a horrific turn when his beloved wife dies suddenly in a car accident.  Haunted by her memory and buried in his work, Bob is trying to get his life back when he meets Grace Briggs (Driver), a sharp-witted waitress working in an Irish-Italian restaurant who has just received a long-awaited heart transplant and a second chance at life. The two slowly fall madly in love with each other, never imagining that the heart beating in her chest belonged to his wife.  Bob and Grace must struggle to make sense of love, loss and the unexpected when they are confronted by this unbelievable truth that could easily break both of their hearts for good.

In At First Sight, Virgil Adamson (Kilmer), blind since childhood, is working as a masseuse in an upstate New York spa when he meets and falls in love with stressed-out, career-driven Manhattan architect Amy Benic (Sorvino).  While making love and reveling in the sounds of the rain, Virgil helps Amy hear and sense the world she’s taken for granted, giving her new spirit and a burst of creativity.  Certain that his simple world will be greatly enhanced, Amy takes Virgil to New York for a radical new surgery to restore the sight he hasn't had since he was one year old.  Virgil's restored vision puts a fresh focus on both their lives when the two quickly discover that seeing doesn't always mean comprehending.  Virgil’s difficult road to rediscovering the visual world tests their relationship and eventually strains them to the limit when Virgil begins to lose his sight again.