Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301757799 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6301757793 Label: Academy Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Academy Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Academy Home Entertainment Release Date: December 09, 1992 Running Time: 94 minutes Sales Rank: 27661 Studio: Academy Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: April 06, 1990
Rating: - In The Spirit
Fresh,quirky, funny, clever-why is it not on DVD? Don't know, but this vhs is still borrowed by my friends to watch every now and again cause everyone likes it.
Rating: - Getting in the spirit
Granted, the film is nearly swamped in the early going by an annoying, mysterioso narrator, called in to mutter darkly about the "Fate" of its characters. He's not on hand to guide us into a complex plot; there isn't one. Rather, he represents an awkward attempt to justify the film's occultite title. The film itself has one or two other irons in the fire besides ribbing tofu, reincarnation, and healing crystals. In any case, the narrator slips away about 25 minutes into the picture, without goodbyes, never to return. The notion of sustaining a "New Age Satire" soon follows him out the door, ... Read More
Rating: - Spirit of Laughter
Take a funny trip to the "other side" as a scatterbrained health food store owner and a grumpy abandoned housewife join together to solve a strange crime (which involves a homicidal waterbed mattress, a cryptic journal and a dead hooker!) This is a dark, dry comedy that takes three very different women and braids their strange destinies together. Marlo Thomas is the dingy, metaphysical, interior decorater and store owner named Reva who tries to help everyone she can in her Manhatten neighborhood. Her generousity is challenged by her crude, ex-porn star, next door neighbor named Crystal (Jeannie Berlin). ... Read More
Rating: - murderous
In The Heartbreak Kid director Elaine May presented her daughter Jeannie Berlin as her mother's surrogate - the sad clutz, who is so addled that she becomes a touching pathetic figure. Here Berlin has cowritten with Brad Fuller a starring role for May, but unfortunately the material reads paper thin and the director Sandra Seacat lacks May's own gift for comedy. Is there anything more tragic than seeing a great comedienne wasted? (This has been the continuing outcry regarding people like Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin, whose filmed live performances showcase them better than any movie has). Ironically Berlin ... Read More
Rating: - Subtle and hilarious!
Although probably classfied as an "oddball" comedy, this one of the most quietly hilarious movies I've ever seen. You'll have to listen carefully to catch the depth of each characters' humor, but it is well worth seeing again and again.
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