{"id":489,"date":"2014-12-05T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2014-12-05T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:12:54","slug":"desert-hearts-gets-belated-dvd-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Desert Hearts Gets Belated DVD issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19417\" class=\"yiv672513710MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19410\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19409\" lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>The much-acclaimed cult movie Desert Hearts is to receive its first\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19410\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19409\" lang=\"EN-US\"><strong> official release on DVD in UK. This\u00a0influential gay-themed film (to be issued by<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>\u00a0 Final Cut) stars <\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Helen Shaver and\u00a0Patricia Charbonneau. <\/strong><\/span><strong>It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She&#8217;s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner&#8217;s daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian&#8217;s insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. <\/strong><b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19426\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1417773589714_19425\"><strong>Adapted from the novel &#8216;Desert of the Heart&#8217; by Jane Rule<\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-acclaimed cult movie Desert Hearts is to receive its first\u00a0 official release on DVD in UK. This\u00a0influential gay-themed film (to be issued by\u00a0 Final Cut) stars Helen Shaver and\u00a0Patricia Charbonneau. It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}