Amazon.com: Oscar was Sylvester Stallone's agreeable, 1991 effort at broad comedy, a fast-talking, suspender-snapping gangster farce featuring the Rambo star as a 1930s Chicago mob boss, Snaps Provolone, trying to go straight during overlapping personal crises. No, this isn't Billy Wilder, but director John Landis (Coming to America) has crackling fun with Oscar's fruit salad of traditional comic themes and tools, including mistaken identities, a powerful man's weakness for his children, and a nonstop parade of outre secondary characters. The cast includes Kirk Douglas as Stallone's father, whose deathbed wish compels Snaps to go into legitimate banking at the exact moment the latter's daughter (Marisa Tomei) announces her love for a chauffeur. Meanwhile, another woman claiming to be Snaps's offspring is engaged to a fellow (Vincent Spano) who has stolen $50,000 of the big man's money. Wackiness ensues. The winning cast includes Peter Riegert, Don Ameche, Chazz Palminteri, Eddie Bracken, Harry Shearer, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Bruce Davison. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Oscar
This is a brillant movie, the best ever done by Silvester Stallone, very involved and funny. 10/10
Rating: - "You mugs stop calling me boss - it ain't respectable!"
Okay, I do think that Sly has managed to produce two fairly good comedies in his career (and we'll just ignore the mind-numbingly disastrous STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT, shall we?). Surprisingly, I enjoyed Rhinestone for Sly's fish-out-of-water turn as a country singer-in-training. And the gangster farce OSCAR is actually one of my favorite Stallone flicks. I don't know how many folks have heard of OSCAR (I'm betting, not many), but it sure slipped way under the radar when it came out back in '91. I'm thinking people were probably turned off because it featured Sly in something other than the expected ... Read More
Rating: - This Movie Rocked!
This was a witty, fun movie. See Sylvester Stallone and Marissa Tomei at their best! I have watched this movie again and again! I highly reccomend this movie to anyone looking for a good time!
Rating: - Hysterical!!!
Sylvester Stallone gets alot of undue criticism in my opinion; & I think anyone who has been a "Sly Basher" in the past, will quickly change their tune after watching this hilarious movie; Sly is brilliant in his portrayal of a gangster trying to go straight to fulfill the dying wish of his father. If my dvd's kept track of how often they were watched, this one would definately be in the top 5. Give Stallone another chance & watch this movie!
Rating: - Picture This
1931 New York City.....deep in the heart of not only Prohibition but the great depression as well. "Spats" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) promises his dying father (Kirk Douglas) that he will leave his life as a gangster and become an honest man. And that's where the fun starts! It's good clean fun with a very talented cast, inluding Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Yvonne DeCarlo, Don Ameche and Kirk Douglas.
