Brighter Summer Day 01/16 Blu-ray (Rental)

Hot off of her Best Actress Oscar nominated performance in The Sterile Cuckoo, Liza Minnelli embodies Junie Moon, the physically and emotionally scarred heroine in director Otto Preminger's (Such Good Friends) Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Considered misfits by society, hospital mates Junie Moon (Minnelli, Cabaret), a victim of an acid attack that has scarred her face; Arthur (Ken Howard, Such Good Friends), an epileptic; and Warren (Robert Moore, TV's Diana), a gay paraplegic; set up house together in a rented property owned by the eccentric heiress Miss Gregory (Kay Thompson, Funny Face). Together the trio will face life's challenges, romantic entanglements and assorted adventures in the film version of the novel by Marjorie Kellogg, who adapted it for the screen. Directed by Otto Preminger, the film co-stars James Coco (Man of La Mancha, Such Good Friends), Fred Williamson (Hammer, Black Caesar) and?Leonard Frey (Fiddler on the Roof), and features a score composed by Philip Springer with Pete Seeger performing the opening & closing credits tune "Old Devil Time.".