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Anchor Bay Entertainment is set for release Blue Valentine on both DVD and Blu-ray on May 10, 2011. The film is directed by Derek Cianfrance and stars Ryan Gosling as Dean, Michelle Williams as Cindy, Mike Vogel as Bobby, John Doman as Jerry Heller, Ben Shenkman as Sam Feinberg, Reila Aphrodite as Mary, Maryann Plunkett, Faith Wladyka as Frankie Periera, Samii Ryan as Amanda, Dan Van Wert as Bus. Passenger, Michelle Nagy as Music Teacher, Eileen Rosen as Mimi, Carey Westbrook as Charlie, Tamara Torres as Maria Guevara, Ian Bonner as Room Service Guy, Ashley Gurnari as Checker and Eileen Rosen as Mimi.

Movie synopsis: On the far side of a once-passionate romance, Cindy (Michelle Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling) are married with a young daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they steal away to a theme hotel. We then encounter them years earlier, when they met and fell in love—full of life and hope.

Moving fluidly between these two time periods, Blue Valentine unfolds like a cinematic duet whose refrain asks, where did their love go? Framing the film as a mystery whose answer lies scattered in time (and in character), filmmaker Derek Cianfrance constructs an elegant set of dualities: past and present, youth and adulthood, vitality and entropy. The rigor of his process is visible throughout the film. Eliminating artificial devices, he has only the truth of the characters to work with. Because Gosling and Williams bring amazing intensity and emotional honesty to their roles, the experience of connecting to these two souls becomes truly moving.

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