Silver Spring, MD —Winner of an International Emmy® for best drama (2001), Dirty Tricks makes its North American home video debut on January 4, 2011 from Acorn Media (DVD Single, $29.99, www.AcornOnline.com). Broadcast on BBC America and based on the book by Michael Dibdin (the Aurelio Zen mysteries), this award-winning black comedy stars Martin Clunes (Doc Martin, Men Behaving Badly) as a charmingly ruthless social climber involved in a series of suspicious deaths. Wittily written and brilliantly acted, Dirty Tricks delights with a first-rate supporting cast sending up modern marriage and mores with wit as crisp and intoxicating as the best British gin. The series co-stars James Bolam (New Tricks, Beiderbecke trilogy), Lindsay Duncan (Traffik, Alice in Wonderland), Neil Dudgeon (Life of Riley, the new lead of Midsomer Murders) and Julie Graham (At Home with the Braithwaites, Bonekickers).

Part bawdy bedroom farce, part zany crime caper, this saucy British romp stars Martin Clunes as a charming underachiever on the run from the law. Sure, he’s manipulative, money-grubbing, and completely amoral. But is he a murderer? Absolutely not, he insists—despite the pesky corpses piling up.

After befriending an accountant (Neil Dudgeon), he beds the man’s randy wife, Karen (Julie Graham), before a wealthy widow (Lindsay Duncan) next catches his eye. When Karen meets an untimely demise, a plodding police detective (James Bolam) gets involved, and things take a decidedly dicey turn.

Street: January 4, 2011
SRP: $29.99
DVD Single: Approx. 146 min. – British drama - SDH subtitles
Bonus Features: Biography of author Michael Dibdin and cast filmographies
Contains nudity, strong language, and graphic sexual situations

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