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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012

Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Dark comedy movie Carnage had a brief run in theaters at the end of 2011 and was nominated for two Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Motion Picture Golden Globe awards, one for Jodie Foster and the other for Kate Winslet.

Foster (The Beaver) and Winslet (Contagion) star as wives and mothers who, with their respective husband, John C. Reilly (Cyrus) and Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants), meet to discuss a fight involving their 11-year-old sons. Zachary (Elvis Polanski, Roman’s son), son of Winslet and Waltz, struck his classmate Ethan (Eliot Berger), son of Foster and Reilly, resulting in a missing tooth. Foster and Reilly invite Winslet and Waltz to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the matter, but what begins as a cordial meeting quickly turns into childish behavior.

The film was directed by Roman Polanski...

Tried and tested on stage from Paris to London to Broadway, New York, Yasmina Reza’s successful play God of Carnage was always going to present a challenge being adapted for film by the playwright herself. However, the key to the story – shortened to Carnage – is the power of the acting talent assigned to play the parents; director Roman Polanski’s excellent casting of Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly as the Longstreets, and Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz as the Cowans is the absolute tour de force of the film.

After the Cowans’ son, Zachary (Polanski’s own son Elvis) ‘disfigures’ the Longstreets’ son, Ethan (Eliot Berger) with a stick in the park, the Longstreets, Penelope (Foster) and Michael (Reilly) invite the Cowans, Nancy (Winslet) and Alan (Waltz) over to their apartment to discuss what course of action should be taken next. However, a civilised, albeit contrived meeting unravels into childish chaos.

The new official trailer for director Roman Polanski's forthcoming comedy "Carnage" is now online. The film stars Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly, and Eliot Berger.Though not released until December, the film has already screened at various film festivals, to overwhelming positive reactions."Carnage" is released across the Us from December 16th. A UK release date is to be announced.Roman Polanski's "Carnage" tells the story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.Watch the trailer for "Carnage" below;...