When is The Art of Racing in the Rain DVD release date?
When is The Art of Racing in the Rain DVD release date?
Based on the novel of the same name by Garth Stein (read our review here), the movie about a Golden Retriever named Enzo and his sports-car racing owner Denny Swift is a real tearjerker.
The Art of Racing in the Rain DVD release date will be Tuesday, November 5, according to a website called, helpfully enough, DVD Release Dates. It will also be on Blu-Ray that day.
According to The Art of Racing’s Twitter account, it seems that the digital release will be on Tuesday, October 29.
The Art of Racing stars Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves, For Love of the Game) as the voice of Enzo, Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls, Heroes, This is Us) as Denny, and Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Dear John, Letters to Juliet) as Denny’s wife Eve.
Kathy Baker and Martin Donovan portray Eve’s parents, while Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Lily Dodsworth-Evans share the role of Denny and Eve’s daughter Zoe.
The movie is directed by British director Simon Curtis, best known for 2017’s Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Ventimiglia loved working with his canine co-star, and Seyfried said the relationship with her castmates went far deeper than usual, in that they truly seemed like teammates.
According to Box Office Mojo, The Art of Racing debuted at No. 6 on opening weekend, earning $8.1 million. Since then it has totaled $26.4 million domestically and another $7.3 million worldwide for a total of about $34.5 million.
By Box Office Mojo‘s reckoning, it comes in at No. 32 all-time in the category of Dog Movies, just behind Because of Winn-Dixie and ahead of the original Air Bud.
Reviews from critics were lukewarm at best (Variety‘s Peter Debruge said it exists to make audiences cry, while Plugged In‘s Paul Asay said it was almost-but-not-quite a perfect family movie), but it was fairly faithful to the novel, which is rather strange in its mix of serious subjects and lighthearted tone, but well worth reading.
Due to Disney’s acquisition of most Twentieth Century Fox properties in January, The Art of Racing will likely debut on Disney Plus or Hulu when it hits streaming services, but that is currently unclear at the moment.