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OSCAR® Winner Natalie Portman (Best Actress, Black Swan, 2011) leads an acclaimed cast in this powerfully stirring drama as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. As she grapples with unimaginable grief and trauma following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, “Jackie’s” faith and strength lead her to a new life with her children. While she honors her husband’s remarkable legacy, she also leaves her own indelible mark. 2017 OSCAR® Nominated Film Best Actress, Natalie Portman Best Costume Design, Madeline Fontaine Best Music (Original Score), Mica Levi JACKIE Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD Special Features: • From Jackie to Camelot Featurette • Audio Commentary by Pablo Larraín and Natalie Portman* • Gallery *Only available on Digital HD. JACKIE Blu-ray and DVD Specifications: Street Date: March 7, 2017 Screen Format: Widescreen 16:9 (1.66:1) Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Descriptive Audio 5.1, Spanish

Biopic folds reality into fantasy. Review by Brandon Wolfe In 1948 Chile, famed poet and senator Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) has made major political waves. An outspoken man-of-the-people communist, Neruda is not one to shy away from espousing his beliefs to power, making some powerful enemies in the process. This penchant for fierce candidness results in a warrant being issued for his arrest, sending him into hiding alongside his loyal wife Delia (Mercedes Morán) and aided by a vast network of loyalists. Hot on his trail is an obsessive policeman (Gael Garcia Bernal) who despises Neruda for all that he symbolizes. The setup for Neruda , directed by Pablo Larraín (whose Jackie , another unconventional biopic, is also in theaters), sounds like something on par with The Fugitive , with a hunted man just barely keeping one step ahead of the determined lawman out to bring him in. Yet Neruda is hardly a thriller of that ilk. Never does it leave the audience breathless with anxiety ove

Jackie is unconventional, uncompromising, and one of the best films of the year. Review by Matt Cummings Jackie is a masterful film. Starkly raw in its depiction of perhaps the worst single event since WWII, it's a remarkably poignant biopic that is largely non-traditional in its format or how it treats its subjects. Powered by an incredible performance from its lead, it vaults to the top of our Oscar choices behind expert camerawork and a sense that our current political machine is headed in the same terrible direction. Still reeling over the loss of her husband John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson), Jaqueline (Natalie Portman) has disappeared to the family's Hyannis Port home, ready to tell her side of the story to an unknown journalist (Billy Crudrup). Told from four different time periods, Jackie relates the horrific moments of the assassination, but orders The Journalist to carefully dictate her words so as assuage the concerns of Americans that she is no