New Release: Dumbstruck DVD

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Laurence
– June 21, 2011Find Others: DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: , ,
Dumbstruck movie scene

Kim Yeager plies her trade in Dumbstruck.

On July 19, 2011, Magnolia released the DVD of the film Dumbstruck, a documentary that follows a quintet of ventriloquists (or ‘vents,’ as they’re referred to in the biz) over the course of a year, delving into their lives and performances, and revealing how each discovered a life with a dummy. The DVD will carry the list price of $26.98.

Directed by Mark Goffman (TV’s White Collar), Dumbstruck takes a look at five vents: 13-year-old Dylan, who dreams of a life on stage with his puppet, while his dad wishes he would be more athletic and join the football team; a former Miss Ohio beauty queen who longs to make it on to a cruise-ship; Dan, a veteran cruise-ship entertainer who’s struggling to find more balance in his home life; Wilma, who just loves to entertain people, taking her dummies everywhere from senior homes to the local Walmart; and, finally, Terry Fator, a struggling vent who went on to win America’s Got Talent and a five-year, $100 million Vegas contract.

The movie popped onto a couple of theater screens in April and May 2011, but essentially premiered on DVD in the U.S.

Special features on the disc include a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and extended interviews.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.