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Borderline
Borderline (2002)
Movie rating: 3/10
DVD rating: 2/10
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Rating: R
Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
List Price: $24.95
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Disc Details
Special Features: Digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video
Mastered in high definition
Widescreen presentation (1.78:1)
Audio: English 5.1, French Dolby surround
Bonus Trailers
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Interactive menus
Scene selections
Video Format: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
[SS-SL]
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
French (Dolby Surround)

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Captions: No
Casing: 1-Disc Keep Case

Review
Gina Gershon, Sean Patrick Flannery, and Michael Biehn star in Borderline, one of the most ridiculous and poorly executed thrillers I've seen in years.

Gershon plays a woman named Dr. Lila Colletti, a psychiatrist who works with patients at a hospital for the criminally insane. The good doctor has a reputation with the patients as. . .well, as a good doctor. She's so good in fact, that just about every patient she treats falls in love with her. You know what? It seems like everyone is in love with Lila. Everyone but her estranged husband, that is.

So the movie starts out with Lila's husband winning custody of their daughters, Lila getting tanked and blacking out, and Lila's ex and his new wife getting murdered. Notice I used the passive voice on those last two? That's because this whole movie is passive. It doesn't so much thrill the audience; it is, rather, thrilled that there is an audience watching it.

I won't give away the twist. Actually, I won't give it away, because you'll figure it out in the first five minutes. Just remember that the filmmakers decided not to go with the obvious ending. Nope, they stayed away from that. They went with the cliché ending.

The Disc
Everything about this disc is technically up to snuff except for the movie.

Picture Quality: 9/10
The picture looks pretty good, with the exception of a couple of spots that look as though the transfer team forgot to remaster them. The picture looks so good, in fact, that at the beginning of the movie I thought that it might actually turn out to be pretty good. Then the acting started.

Sound Quality: 9/10
Columbia always has good sound quality. If anyone finds anything to the contrary on any of their releases, drop me a line.

Easter Eggs:
None.

Extra Features: 2/10
A few trailers for films that looked only moderately more entertaining than the one on the disc.

The Final Word:
Crap, crap, crap. I'd rather watch Jade again.

Michael Dziura

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