# What are among the biggest-name movies unavailable on DVD?

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**Created:** [April 24, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-among-the-biggest-name-movies-unavailable-on-dvd/354061 "2006-04-24T22:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-among-the-biggest-name-movies-unavailable-on-dvd/354061/41 "2006-04-26T06:31:11Z")

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**Walloon** , I believe “umm” usually suggests “I don’t want to be all confrontational and say ‘you’re wrong,’ but, **umm** , you’re wrong and here’s why…” It suggests the hesitation one might use in speech when delivering what could be seen as unpleasant news.

It also strikes me as a little passive-aggressive, though, since it seems to be a way of superficially softening a conflict while preserving one’s own sense of rightness.

Or maybe I’m reading too much into three little characters.

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**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-among-the-biggest-name-movies-unavailable-on-dvd/354061/42 "2006-04-26T09:54:19Z")

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> [@Walloon](#):
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> •  
> • _Blade Runner_ (1982)_, directed by Ridley Scott  
> • Henry V (1989)_, starring Kenneth Branagh  
> • _The Player_ (1992)_, directed by Robert Altman  
> • Hard Boiled (1992)_, cult classic, directed by John Woo
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> - Available on DVD in Canada.

I think you mean these are out-of-print, because I have all four of these movies on Region 1 DVD ordered from [amazon.com](http://amazon.com).

I myself have been looking for years for **At Play in the Fields of the Lord** , but haven’t been able to find it.  
I know it is not a big title, but is a very well respected movie, I would think.  
The acting is top-notch, the scenery is beautiful, the story is intruiging… why, oh why don’t they release it on DVD?

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