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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303101248 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 6303101240 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 14, 1998 Running Time: 123 minutes Sales Rank: 312 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1993
Amazon.com: Adventures in geezer land--make that lovable geezer land--describes this often manipulative comedy-drama that is rescued only by the personalities of its leads. Richard Harris is a feisty retired sea captain in a Florida retirement community who still wants to chase girls and squeeze the most out of life. He forces his friendship on an also-retired, shy, and routine-loving Cuban exile (Robert Duvall), who eventually reciprocates. But Randa Haines's film isn't quite sure what to do with these old characters. Though each takes a romantic plunge (with Piper Laurie and Shirley MacLaine), you ultimately know what the last stop will be. Still, Harris is a force of nature whose exuberance is contagious, if stagey; and Duvall, as the anal-retentive retired barber, has all the right prissy moves. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Who do we write to get this on DVD? GREAT MOVIE
This is a great movie. I saw it on cable TV some time ago. I want to buy this, but must have a DVD. Who do we write to request this?
Rating: - Wrestling Ernest Hemmingway
Great movie, looked at a lot of places before I found it on Amazon. I wanted to wait until I found it on DVD and I should have. The VHS tape's picture quality and sound was poor to say it was a new tape. If I could have previewed the tape before buying I would have decided to wait on the DVD to come out.
Rating: - DVD???
Since this was never a box office smash (whatever that means anymore) Warner Bros. is refusing to put this out on DVD. Great cast and an unbelievably touching story. A travesty its not available on DVD!
Rating: - HISTORICALLY 1 OF THE BEST...
As a huge fan of Robert Duvall's work and a devotee of lesser known movies as well as the grandson of George Meeker (Character Actor Extrordinair from the mid '20's through mid 50's) - I was blown away when I stumbled across this movie on Encore or some such movie channel a few years back. Ever since then I have wanted to ask Mr. Duvall or the director "Whose look did you use in your choice to do 'Walter's' make-up/look"? I thought my grandfather had risen from the dead to make this movie. That was the first thing that drew me in many times to watch this gem over and over. As with the other reviewers ... Read More
Rating: - Perfect Double Feature
Unlike the two-dimensional, caricatured "Grumpy Old Men," this film is the real deal. It's worth the watching just for the scene in which Robert Duvall's character gives Richard Harris' character a shave...perhaps the only truly intimate scene between heterosexual characters that I can think of. Watch this great (and yet too-little known) movie and then follow it up with "Venus" with Peter O'Toole. You'll never write off old men again.
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