Differences between 87min UK blu ray and 89min US blu ray?

Even though PAL and NTSC countries have moved on to HDTV, they still retained the same frame rates as they had for standard definition, (25/50 fps in Europe vs. 30/60 fps in the U.S.). Films are transferred to video at 25 fps in Europe (rather than the common 24 fps film frame rate), to conform to the 25 fps television frame rate, so this has the effect of speeding up the film slightly.

I know this post is really old, but I just watched the film on UK TV which brought me to this board, and this answer is slightly misleading.

The overwhelming majority of films are transferred to Blu-ray at 1080/24p (actually 23.976p, but let's not overcomplicate it). There are exceptions, such as the few films that are 1080/60i or 1080/50i. Tucker and Dale is 1080/50i in the UK, so it is HD, but interlaced and presented in 50 fields per second (which is 25fps) the same as UK HDTV. So while the above post is true in T&D's case, it most certainly is not the norm. I own over 1400 Blu-rays and I can count the number of titles that are not 1080/24p on my fingers.

Anyway, that's why the running time is shorter. No idea why they did it given that it was a Sony release and they're generally among the best distributors. Perhaps they had an HDTV master available and just decided to use that for the BD. Who knows? Personally I hate the speed up that accompanies it, but I guess if you're not susceptible to it or are unfamiliar with the film it won't be a problem. The video quality is still fine.

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