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Audiences Will Vow to Take ... ``The Pledge'' Arriving on Videocassette and DVD June 19; All-Star Cast Includes Academy Award-Winners Jack Nicholson and Benicio Del Toro.


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BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 21, 2001

"A must-see. The first exceptional film of 2001" -- Leonard Maltin

On June 19 Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980.  (WHV WHV Wilhelmshaven (Northern Germany, Headquarters of the German Navy)
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) unleashes one of the year's best ensemble casts with the release of "The Pledge."

Deftly directed by Sean Penn, "The Pledge" boasts the inimitable Jack Nicholson, portraying one of his most driven characters yet. The thriller will be available for rent on VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier.  and for sale on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
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 at $24.98.

"The Pledge's" stellar cast is "at the top of their game," (a) and includes Academy Award(R)-winner Jack Nicholson ("As Good As It Gets," "A Few Good Men"), Robin Wright Penn ("Unbreakable," "Message in a Bottle"), this year's Academy Award(R) best-supporting actor winner, Benicio Del Toro ("Traffic," "Snatch"), Sam Shepard ("All the Pretty Horses All the Pretty Horses is a novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the apocalyptic bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention, spending some time on bestseller charts, earning the U.S. ") and Mickey Rourke ("Get Carter").

This powerful and exhilarating story follows a retiring Nevada homicide cop (Nicholson) who becomes obsessed with his final case after promising the victim's family he would find the killer. As he follows his own instincts to put the pieces together, he uncovers more than he ever intended.

"The Pledge" DVD is available in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and 16x9 widescreen format. The DVD includes cast/filmmaker career highlights, the original theatrical trailer and English and French subtitles.

"The Pledge" is rated R (film contains strong violence and language) and has a running time of 123 minutes.

With operations in 78 international territories -- more than the video division of any other studio -- Warner Home Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. WHV's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Home Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
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