Simon's strained relationship with his father only becomes worse after he is sent off to private school where he makes new friends who introduce him to a latter day hippie drug subculture. Eventually, Simon finds himself in over his head- as a drug dealer who uses far too much of the product he sells. Only by facing his father and the personal demons that have dominated his youth is Simon able to move forward onto the next phase of his life. The image on the DVD is clean, bright and offers a good level of detail. There are instances where film grain is noticeable during the presentation, but it never becomes objectionable.
Colors reproduce with good saturation and natural looking flesh tones.
Blacks are fairly accurate and the picture delivers a respectable level of shadow detail. There are no problems with digital compression artifacts, however my sample had a few glitches that caused the image to breakup for less than a second on two occasions. While the film was originally recorded in UltraStereo, the DVD is presented with a Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack. However, there are musical sequences that benefit from the Dolby Digital encoding. Dialogue reproduction is clean, intelligible and the mix does offer a good ambient sense of presence.