MUMBAI: Reliance Home Video & Games has released Blu-ray and home video of Stephen Daldry?s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father?s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.

A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls ?The Worst Day?, he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears.

Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.

The film has been directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry from a screenplay written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth and based on acclaimed best-selling novel from author Jonathan Safran Foer.
The film, produced by Scott Rudin, stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock along with newcomer Thomas Horn in the role of Oskar.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture while Max von Sydow was nominated for his second Academy Award for his moving silent performance as The Renter. The film also stars Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright and Zoe Caldwell.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is available on Blu-ray (Rs.1,299), DVD (Rs.599) and VCD (Rs.299).