April 3, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES I & IV • Page 21 ‘All Together’ depicts experiment in senior living by Dennis Seuling “All Together” (Kino Lorber) is the tale of two older married couples, Jeanne and Albert (Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard) and Annie and Jean (Geraldine Chaplin, Guy Bedos), and two friends who move in together thinking they would be better off taking care of each other than relying on an assisted living facility. Enter a young Hungarian graduate student (Daniel Bruhl), who films their experiment in senior living for his research project while also serving as unofficial caretaker. Director Stephane Robelin includes a number of funny scenes of seniors behaving badly, but the film goes deeper than easy laughs. It is about holding onto one’s dignity as one ages when society treats senior citizens as nearly invisible. The discussions of the group cover self-dependence, illness, sexual desires, and unexpected revelations. The ensemble work of the cast is terrific. Fonda looks at least 25 years younger than her 75 years. This is her first French film since 1972, and her French is precise and natural. Special features on this DVD release, in French with English subtitles, include a stills gallery and theatrical trailers. “The Sweeney” (Entertainment One) is an action thriller based on a popular British TV show of the 1970s that was inspired by the Sweeney Flying Squad, London’s elite crime-fighting force specializing in armed robbery and violent crime. Led by legendary Detective Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), the squad is not afraid to use old-school, bare-knuckle tactics to bring down the modern underworld. Now, with a master criminal (Paul Anderson) on the loose and a major bank heist in progress, Regan will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if that means Pierre Richard and Jane Fonda star in ‘All Together.’ defying the orders of his boss (Damian Lewis) and taking the law into his own hands. The members of the squad are stereotypes -- the Irish guy, the black guy, the jokester, and the one you know will not make it to the final credits. There is also an Internal Affairs bureaucrat bent on bringing down Regan and his team. This R-rated film contains violence, strong language, alcohol abuse, and sexual situations. The Bluray/DVD combo pack contains several behind-the-scenes featurettes, animated storyboards, and director’s audio commentary. “Key to the City” (Warner Archive) is a 1950 romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young in their first and final screen pairing since “The Call of the Wild” (1935). When small-town mayor Steve Fisk (Gable) arrives at a national mayors’ convention in San Francisco, he meets attractive Clarissa Standish (Young), mayor of Winonah, Maine. They are from completely different backgrounds. She is Harvard Law School graduate. He is a roughneck ex-longshoreman. Both are honest politicians. Steve invites Clarissa to dine at a rowdy nightclub, a decision that ultimately lands them both in jail. Their arrests make the morning papers. Clarissa finds herself falling for Steve, and she is forced to choose between love and duty when the scandal threatens both of their careers. Co-starring Raymond Burr (TV’s Perry Mason), “Key to the City” also marked the final screen appearance of Frank Morgan (the title character in “The Wizard of Oz”). Three years later, Young abandoned her big-screen career and turned to television with a top-rated, long-running NBC anthology series. “Stitches” (MPI Media Group) stars British standup comedian Ross Noble as a murderous kids’ birthday party clown. Years after a cruel kids’ prank during a birthday party for eight-year-old Tommy (Tommy Knight) left third-rate clown Richard “Stitches” Grindle (Noble) dead on the kitchen floor, the childhood friends gather to plan a birthday bash to end all bashes. But they have not counted on the degenerate jester rising from the grave to seek vengeance. Now Tommy and his teenage friends are on the run from the undead jokester. “Stitches” follows a strict ‘80s slasher flick formula (continued on Crossword page)