It’s happened again: a strong, solid drama with Latinos at the center got a tiny theatrical release…and then wandered into an almost-unpromoted life on DVD.
This time it’s A Dark Truth, a taut and revealing environmental thriller starring
. After opening in a few theaters in January and languishing on VOD, it’s available for purchase beginning March 5.
In it, Garcia plays a former CIA operative turned political talk show host who is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. When he arrives, he is plunged into a violent and chaotic situation, with the military cracking down on a group of protesters led by Longoria and Whitaker.
Eva Longoria, Millie Davis, Forrest Whitaker,
Drew Davis and Andy Garcia
Reviews of the film were not kind, but most viewers never got a chance to see it: it opened in a grand total of three theaters, and earned lunch money. This seems to be standard operating procedure for Magnolia, the distributor of A Dark Truth: they have been around for years and have released more than thirty films in 2012 and 2013 alone…but exactly one of them, Goon, was seen in more than a few theaters (literally: less than two digits). This includes fairly well-respected films like The Good Doctor, A Royal Affair, and John Dies at the End, all of which found themselves moved almost immediately into VOD, Netflix, and DVD.
There’s also one other way to judge for yourself: you can view it online for $3.99 on Amazon Instant Video, here.
