NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Sony Blu-ray (September 2023): Sony have transferred Gene Stupnitsky's No Hard Feelings to Blu-ray. It is on a dual-layered disc with a supportive bitrate. It looks about as good as you might expect a modern film to 1080P would look - super clean, reasonably tight, maybe a shade of teal but a consistent, sharp HD presentation with plenty of depth and full colors.

On their Blu-ray, Sony use a DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround track (16-bit) in the original English language. There is also a descriptive audio track in English and three foreign language DUBs. No Hard Feelings has a few separations - car chases, fight on the beach, party etc. The score was by Mychael Danna (Little Miss Sunshine, Ang Lee's Ride With the Devil and The Ice Storm, Egoyan's Exotica, Remember, The Sweet Hereafter, Chloe, Adoration etc.) and Jessica Rose Weiss (Don't Make Me Go) sounding really nice supporting the film humor and brief morose moods. There is sampling of other pop songs; Tommy James's Draggin' the Line, The Stranglers, Shirley Bassey, The Stooges, Hall & Oates' Maneater performed by, the co-star, Andrew Barth Feldman, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and others. It sounds flawless. Sony offer English, English (SDH) and foreign language subtitle options on their Region "A"/"C" Blu-ray.

The Sony Blu-ray offers a couple of EPK pieces - each about six minutes - A Motley Crew - Meet the Characters and A Little Wrong - the Making Of No Hard Feelings. Both have sound bites from cast, crew; director, producer, Jen Lawrence etc. There is also a funny blooper reel and trailers for other films. There is a coupon with a digital code to redeem.

Gene Stupnitsky's No Hard Feelings is not usual DVDBeaver material. We almost never review modern rom-coms. But I was sent this, I watched it with low expectations and... I liked it enough to cover. Jennifer Lawrence is no Anna May Wong or Louise Brooks but she still has something very good going on. I don't think I've ever seen her give a bad performance. Her character here is a lot like the one in Silver Linings Playbook; loose, carefree, quick minded... which, in itself, makes this a huge positive. In David O. Russell's film she becoming the second-youngest winner for an Oscar for 'Best Actress' at age 22. No Hard Feelings is rated R for sexual content, language, and some graphic nudity (brief Jen Lawrence on the beach.) Stupnitsky wrote and directed this and I also like his, co-written, Bad Teacher. Critics are unimpressed with No Hard Feelings but I was. I look forward to Jennifer Lawrence's next effort. The Sony Blu-ray is modest and the film will probably do the streaming circuit but I will watch it again and this will be a keeper. To each his own.

Gary Tooze