by Warner Home Video
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| Sales Rank: | 1974 (lower is better) |
| Price as of: | 12/01/2008 11:12:33 PM MST |
| Price Used: | $4.45 |
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| Director: | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Release Date: | 2003-07-01 |
| Label: | Warner Home Video |
| UPC: | 012569104129 |
| Binding: | DVD |
| Published By: | Warner Home Video |
| ASIN: | B00006FDC9 |
| Category: | DVD |
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Description
Too many kooks spoil the comedy soup? Not when BARBRA STREISAND and RYAN O'NEAL lead a madcap cast (including screen-debuting MADELINE KAHN) on a zany quest that's like a classic screwball comedy - only screwier!
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Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) tipped his hat to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and especially the most glorious of them all, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. Barbra Streisand plays a charming flake who distracts a self-absorbed musicologist (Ryan O'Neal). He's engaged to be married, but soon Streisand's character has him chasing after stolen jewelry and getting into one madcap fix after another. Bogdanovich, who is also a film critic, understands the engine of the screwball genre, and his loving revival of the form brings a smile, though it is not quite consistently inspired or funny. There are plenty of great moments, however, including a slap at O'Neal's own star-making vehicle, Love Story. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
I Love This Movie... a bit dated yet oh so fun!!! - Reviewed on 2008-11-08
This priceless movie with all its gags, bits and skillfully timed stunts and visuals is absolutely hilarious!!
Coupling the extremely funny and beautiful, Madeline Kahn with Ryan O'Neal, the geeky, handsome, straight man was "pure genius" and then there's Barbra Streisand and her character ...Superb, charming, beautiful, and devilishly impulsive!
I laugh just thinking about this union of character's... perfect!!!
All actors and their characters are played perfectly throughout - just like a good recipe take out one ingredient and it just wouldn't be the same.
The tangled mess that is this movies story line starts when Streisand and O'Neal's character's meet in a store while he's looking for aspirin adding along the way a couple of side story's that seamlessly come together over suitcases and what's within them, yes I said, "Suitcases!!" - all are the same style and make... then all hell breaks loose!!
"WOW!! Too funny and wonderfully entertaining!!!"
This is for me one of the best comedy's of its time/era!!! You've got to watch this movie at least once if not many times.
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Book Subjects
- Adult Situations
- Battle of the Sexes
- Bright
- Color
- Comedies
- Comedy
- Comedy Video
- Comedy of Errors
- English
- Feature
- Feature Film-comedy
- Humorous
- Love Triangles
- Madcap
- Movie
- Nostalgic
- Obsessive Quests
- Opposites Attract
- Questionable for Children
- Quirky