Product Description

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Arabic ( Subtitles ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Hebrew ( Subtitles ), Italian ( Subtitles ), Japanese ( Subtitles ), Korean ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Polish ( Subtitles ), Portuguese ( Subtitles ), Romanian ( Subtitles ), Russian ( Subtitles ), Slovenian ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), Turkish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, Short Film, Special Edition, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: 'The Age Of Stupid is the documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, Live Forever, In the Shadow of the Moon).Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that weve achieved. He pulls together clips of archive news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human stories:- Alvin DuVernay, is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is w...The Age of Stupid

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5497 in DVD
• Brand: DOGWOOF
• Released on: 2009-11-09
• Rating: Exempt
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: German, English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 92 minutes

Review
Urgent, compelling and persuasive --Time Out

Captivating and constantly surprising --The Guardian

Knocks spots off An Inconvenient Truth --The Ecologist

Captivating and constantly surprising --The Guardian

Knocks spots off An Inconvenient Truth --The Ecologist