Directed By… Sidney Lumet Volume 2 Blu-ray | 5-Movie Box Set | Region Free

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The Wiz (1978)
Sidney Lumet brought the 1974 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical to the silver screen in 1978, based on the classic novel The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher, is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home. Armed with a big budget and a veritable list of stars including Diana Ross, Michael Jackson (in his only film role), and Ted Ross and Mabel King reprising their Broadway roles, The Wiz is arguably Lumet’s most lively and colourful entry in his filmography, and his only musical.

Daniel (1983)
Oscar winner Timothy Hutton stars alongside Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse in Sidney Lumet’s drama Daniel. The fictionalised story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the anti-war protest movement and contrasts his experiences with the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted. Based on the 1971 novel The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow.

A Stranger Among Us (1992)
Melanie Griffith stars in A Stranger Among Us, a 90s crime drama from Sidney Lumet. Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop tasked with going undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in. Also starring John Pankow, Lee Richardson, and featuring the first credited film performance from James Gandolfini.

Critical Care (1997)
Sidney Lumet’s Critical Care satirises the American health care system, and features an all-star cast including James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Wright, Albert Brooks, and Wallace Shawn. Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father’s care, or over his $10 million estate?

Gloria (1999)
Sidney Lumet remade John Cassavetes’ 1980 neo-noir thriller Gloria with Sharon Stone in the title role, his third final film. After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

Actors: Sharon Stone, James Spader, Helen Mirren, Melanie Griffith, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson
Director: Sidney Lumet
Languages: English
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Discs: 5