{"id":2919,"date":"2011-02-19T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:54:57","slug":"iow-haley-disconnects-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Haley disconnects on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s not much we can tell you about the brand-new DVD release of the Dreamscape Cinema<\/strong> production DISCONNECT<\/strong>, written and directed by Robin Christian<\/strong> of Monticello<\/strong>, that distributor Osiris Entertainment<\/strong> hasn\u2019t already outlined on their Web site<\/a>. So, let\u2019s skip right to the part where we show you the cover artwork. Unlike the old-fashioned look of Questar<\/strong>\u2019s SHEEBA<\/strong><\/a> packaging, DISCONNECT <\/strong>feels marketed to audiences in the here and now:<\/p>\n

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Streeting nationwide last Tuesday, February 15<\/strong>, DISCONNECT<\/a> <\/strong>originally went into production the summer of 2004 in Champaign County<\/strong> and tells the tale of collegiate fine artist Haley (Steffany Huckabee<\/strong>) who is working through the tragedy of her mother\u2019s untimely death with support from her father Russell (Holmes Osborne<\/strong>) and best friend Cathy (Amanda Troop<\/strong>). Late one night, Haley rediscovers a vintage telephone toy she played with as a child and realizes it can facilitate conversations with people in their past lives. She and Cathy soon make ill-advised attempts to change the course of history and prevent the passing of Sonya (Devorah Richards<\/strong>) since Haley believes foul play was involved, accidentally incriminating her boyfriend Dylan (Michael Muhney<\/strong>) and forcing a local sheriff (Eddie Jones<\/strong>) to reopen a case he\u2019d rather remain closed.<\/p>\n

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After the near-decade that has passed between pre-production and domestic release, we\u2019re disappointed so few supplemental materials made it to the DISCONNECT <\/strong>and SHEEBA <\/strong>discs, although the former trumps the latter simply because it has <\/em>extras, however modest. Osiris added a photo gallery \u2013 certainly welcome if the images are quality, even though we\u2019ll always prefer to peruse such things in print \u2013 and a trailer, piquing our interest only for the fact that we\u2019ve found two <\/em>of them on-line and wonder which one made it to the DVD. First, observe the edit posted to Osiris\u2019 YouTube<\/strong> channel, basically the long-existent Dreamscape cut with the distributor\u2019s logo added at the beginning:<\/p>\n

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We also found an alternate on the channel of voice-over artist Kurt Kelly<\/strong> which runs approximately 10 seconds shorter, substitutes or excises numerous shots, and features his throaty hyperbole. Given some of the other Osiris trailers uploaded by Kelly, we\u2019re guessing the distributor hires him to audibly dress up promos they cut together in-house:<\/p>\n

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Actors Muhney, Troop, and Jones would return to MICRO-FILM Country<\/strong> the year after filming DISCONNECT <\/strong>to appear in the next Dreamscape feature, ACT YOUR AGE<\/strong>, which Christian tells CUBlog <\/strong>is on the cusp of landing its own United States distribution. Stick with us for updates, dearest readers!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: One more time we dredge up a Dreamscape Cinema cover design, this for the national DVD release of DISCONNECT, and then relate a tale of two trailers issued by distributor Osiris Entertainment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,19,20],"tags":[630,101,634,632,633],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-videos-du-c-u","category-images-du-cu","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-disconnect","tag-dreamscape-cinema","tag-michael-muhney","tag-osiris-entertainment","tag-steffany-huckabee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}