Anthony Minghella's award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient gets the deluxe treatment it most certainly deserves on this release. The film is presented in a widescreen transfer that preserves the movie's original theatrical aspect ratio -- this is the type of visually assured film that would be pointless to experience in a full-frame edition. English soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1, with Spanish and French subtitles accessible. The substantial supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by Minghella with additional comments from a variety of people involved in the film's production, a featurette on deleted scenes in which Minghella offers his opinions on why some scenes should be cut, and a making-of featurette. There is an interview conducted between Minghella, Ondaatje, and producer Saul Zaentz; a featurette about Ondaatje; an examination of the real-life figure on whom Ralph Fiennes' character is based; and reviews of the film.