Hello Big_L,
Really odd. Makes me wonder if your copy is one of the illegal Chinese counterfeit DVDs (there are lots around) produced without copyright payments, and they screwed up the transfer...
Mistakes do happen, of course. I rented a DVD of an off-broadway play called "The Designated Mourner". Unbelievably, the dialog was out of sync! I thought it was a glitch in my Sony DVD player (it had been rumored there were such glitches with early Sony models), but then the same movie was broadcast on HBO, presumably from a D2 digital master, and the dialog was still out of sync! Incredible.
I don't know how the mastering was approved. Mike Nichols was the director (and played one of the lead roles) and, as the director, he would have had to approve the DVD transfer.
The mystery deepens....
Regards,
