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Checking out [videorecording] / - Widescreen format (16:9). - Woodland Hills, Calif. : Allumination FilmWorks, [2006], c2005. - 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Based on the play : Checking out / by Allen Swift. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005. Title from film slate.

Cinematographer, Matthew Jensen ; editor, Edward R. Abroms ; original music, Nicolas Pike ; costume designer, Kristine Anacker ; production designer, Elisabeth A. Scott. Cinematographer, Matthew Jensen ; editor, Edward R. Abroms ; original music, Nicolas Pike ; costume designer, Kristine Anacker ; production designer, Elisabeth A. Scott.

Peter Falk, Laura San Giacomo, Judge Reinhold, Jeffrey Sams, David Paymer, Shera Danese, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The family of a successful but elderly actor find themselves on the receiving end of his wish to plan his own death, on the eve of his celebratory 90th-year birthday party.

MPAA rating: PG-13, language, some sexual material and thematic elements.


DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby digital stereo.


In English.

Standard No.: 783722737729

Publisher. No.: AFW27377 Allumination FilmWorks

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Birthdays--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Father and child--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Brothers and sisters--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Death--Psychological aspects--Drama.
Older men--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Birthdays--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Father-child relationship--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Siblings--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
Death--Psychological aspects--Drama.
Older men--New York (State)--New York--Drama.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Comedy films
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Family in motion pictures.
Comedy--Feature.
Family--Feature.
Feature films.
Comedy films

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.C55 / C4435564 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72