Barney is a short, overweight and often disheveled Jewish fellow with a big heart. Miriam is cool and tall, the polar opposite of the boisterous producer of TV soaps. Yet somehow the two connect.

But it became a word-of-mouth hit in Baltimore, at the Charles, and it should gain new fans when it comes out on DVD and Blu-ray today. Based on Mordecai Richler’s rich-to-bursting novel, this ...

One complaint. The DVD extras were feeble - a quick uninformative 10 minute ramble, when there could have been interesting features on Montreal and author Richler. Buy Barney’s Version from ...

TORONTO - "Barney's Version" earned critical acclaim and recognition from the Oscars and Golden Globes, but the creative minds who spent years labouring over the film were disappointed by how many ...