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New on DVD: Embark on retreat with ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’

By Tribune News Service
Published: January 24, 2025, 6:04am

A Hulu series from David E. Kelley, based on author Liane Moriarty’s bestseller, tops the DVD releases for the week.

“Nine Perfect Strangers: Season 1”: Nine city dwellers attend a secluded health-and-wellness resort seeking to reinvigorate their lives, but soon realize that the retreat — and the mysterious woman (Nicole Kidman) who runs it — are nothing like they expected. The -cast includes Melissa McCarthy and Luke Evans.

“The tones of ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ run in nine different directions, often in the same episode: Wrenching personal confessionals ram straight into comic relief dream sequences,” writes Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips. “While co-creator David E. Kelley, who cooked this up with John Henry Butterworth, has gotten away with tonal zigzags plenty in his career … here they do not help the overall mission.”

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