The always appealing Diane Venora is wasted in the role of Shale's girl friend. Ernie Hudson smiles through the heavy role as former cop Principal Rolle. This not a DVD demo material. Many scenes are washed out with a poor contrast ratio. This is one DVD that could use some heavy handed use of the sharpness control, though the result would be excessive grain along with acceptably sharp images.
Color is inconsistent and muted.
The product is only as good as the overall production and if care isn't taken in both the video transfer and the MPEG encoding, the result can be a sub-par product. . DVD is not necessarily the next coming of home video.