‘A Balance’ is a thought-provoking drama

Family drama at its finest unfolds in “A Balance,” an excellent new film available on DVD by Film Movement.

A Balance

The Japanese drama explores a bullied girl’s suicide; a documentarian investigating the death puts her in conflict with conservative-minded management at her TV network. Then, she finds out information about her father’s involvement with the girl’s suicide, so the investigative filmmaker struggles with her conscience and her compromised perception of the truth.

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“Quigley Down Under” (Shout! Studios) boasts a new 4K scan of the original camera negative. The stylish take on the venerable Western genre stars Tom Selleck and is set in Australia. Several bonus features accentuate the title.

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