Personal Name:
Pong, Chun-ho, 1969- film director.
Imprint:Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2014]
Physical Description2 videodiscs (126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Title from container.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
Note:Special features: Critics' commentary hosted by Scott Weinbert; The birth of Snowpiercer; The characters; animated prologue; Concept art galleries; Chris Evans & Tilda Swinton on Snowpiercer; The train brought to life: behind the scenes of a special screening; Transper ceneige: from the blank page to the black screen.
Note:The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive rich and powerful ride.
Audience:Rating: R; for violence, language and drug content.
PerformersChris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Ed Harris.
DetailsDVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
