Two movies featuring Oscar-winning performances top the DVD releases for the week of May 18.
"Minari": Written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, this semi-autobiographical story follows a Korean American family that moves from California to rural Arkansas to start a farm.
"The movie ... takes its name from a hardy Korean herb that thrives if given time, an apt emblem for what this family â and most immigrant families â must sacrifice to pursue the American dream," critic Glenn Whipp wrote in his review for the Los Angeles Times.
"The story is mostly seen through the eyes of the precocious youngest child, David (newcomer Alan S. Kim), something of a stand-in for Chung himself," explains Whipp, "as he based the screenplay on his experience of growing up on a small farm in Lincoln, Arkansas, in the 1980s."