“Playing for Keeps will warm your heart and make
you
fall in love again, and again and again.”
–Maria
Salas, Mundo Fox/Terra.com
Featuring an All-Star Cast Including
Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel,
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, Judy
Greer and Dennis Quaid
PLAYING
FOR KEEPS
Debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD
with UltraViolet™ March 5th
Bonus Features Include Seven Deleted Scenes
and Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes
CULVER
CITY, CALIF. (January 22, 2013) – Gerard Butler (The
Ugly Truth) and Jessica Biel (Total Recall) lead an all-star cast in
the romantic comedy PLAYING FOR KEEPS, coming to Blu-ray™
and DVD with UltraViolet™ March 5th from Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment. From Director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit
of Happyness), the film also stars Academy Award® winner
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Best Supporting Actress, Chicago, 2002), Academy
Award® nominee Uma Thurman (Best Actress, Pulp Fiction, 1994),
Judy Greer (The Descendants) and Dennis Quaid (Soul Surfer). PLAYING
FOR KEEPS is a heart-warming story about George (Butler), a retired
soccer star hoping for a second chance at life and fatherhood. After falling on
hard times, George returns home attempting to get his life together and rebuild
a relationship with his son and ex-wife (Biel) by coaching his son’s soccer
team.
Bonus
features on the Blu-ray and DVD include seven deleted scenes from the film, as
well as two behind-the-scenes featurettes: “The Playbook: Making Playing for
Keeps” features filmmakers and cast discussing what it was like to shoot
the film; and “Creating an All-Star Team: The Cast of Playing For Keeps”
offers a peek behind the camera for a look at the cast and filmmakers
exploring what made each star perfect for their role.
Synopsis
Gerard
Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid star
in
PLAYING FOR KEEPS, a romantic comedy about a charming,
down-on-his luck former soccer star (Butler) who returns home to put his life
back together. Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he
gets roped into coaching the boys’ soccer team. But his attempts to finally
become an “adult” are met with hilarious challenges from the attractive “soccer
moms” who pursue him at every turn.
PLAYING FOR KEEPS was directed by
Gabriele Muccino from a screenplay by Robbie Fox. The film was produced by
Kevin Misher, Jonathan Mostow, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Heidi Jo Markel and
John Thompson with Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Ed Cathell III,
Boaz Davidson and Peter Schlessel serving as executive producers.
DVD and Blu-ray bonus features include:
§ Seven deleted scenes
§ Two featurettes:
o
“The Playbook: Making Playing for Keeps”
o
“Creating an All-Star Team: The Cast of Playing for Keeps”
PLAYING
FOR KEEPS
has a running time of approximately 106 minutes and has been rated PG-13 for
some sexual situations, language and a brief intense image.
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and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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