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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780623279
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780623274
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 22, 1999
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 74946
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: April 17, 1998
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Even Seinfeld fans will probably shun this dreadful, nasty-hearted film by Seinfeld cocreator and writer Larry David. It's a tepid comedy about cousins--Richie (Craig Bierko) and Evan (Steven Weber)--who enter into a feud after one borrows two quarters from the other while on a vacation in Atlantic City, and then wins a $400,000 jackpot, which he refuses to share. His action fuels retaliation and one-upmanship that results in death, racism, and a general bad taste in the mouth (you'll have to see the film to figure that one out). Sour Grapes is a misanthropic movie about cheapness that's supposed to be clever in its play on the 'Jewishness' that permeated Jerry Seinfeld's hit TV series. But it doesn't gel here, and the movie is full of more self-loathing than one might care to admit. It also introduces several subplots that go nowhere. All in all, its TV mentality doesn't translate to feature film. --Paula Nechak
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hey, wait a minute, this is kind of like SEINFELD
In the year 1996, at the end of the 7th season of the hit show he helped create, SEINFELD, Larry David went and made a movie called SOUR GRAPES that showcased similarly neurotic characters dealing with taboo subjects in a comical (albeit politically incorrect) way. It was greeted with a beyond-bashing by critics, the coup de gras Roger Ebert's zero star review, where he claimed he could not remember a movie he disliked as much as this one. Now, however, he admits to really enjoying David's brilliant ... Read More
Rating:  - very freakin' funny!
SPOILERS BEWARE*****
I don't know why this movie is so maligned- on imdb it gets only 5.4 out of 10. I LIKE this movie a lot. It's funny, it's very accurate in regards to human nature- people do DO this kind of stupid stuff all the time. And the irony in this movie is hilarious!
In this movie one of the 2 cousins wins a jackpot on a slot machine in Atlantic City. The one playing the machine was originally playing only 1 quarter at a time. His friend & cousin tells him that ... Read More
Rating: - Lightweight entertainment
Larry David of SEINFELD fame made his directing and filmwriting debut with SOUR GRAPES, and you can sure tell it came from the mind that conjured that TV classic (and would later star in the unbelievably funny CUR B YOUR ENTHUSIASM). It takes a nasty "little" situation and makes it into a huge mess.
Two cousins/best friends (Steven Weber from "WINGS" and Craig Bierko) take their girlfriends for a weekend in Atlantic City. Bierko borrows a couple of quarters from Weber, puts them in his slot ... Read More
Rating:  - Very funny
I enjoyed this off-beat comedy a lot, and am looking forward to seeing it again sometime soon. I guess the absurd, off-beat dialog and situations turned some people off. Too bad for them.
Rating:  - After twenty minutes I had enough
Maybe the movie would be better with actors better suited to the material, but I found the main characters off-puttingly petty, venal, loud, and obnoxious. Mind you, I love Curb Your Enthusiasm, which parades all those qualities and worse before the viewer, but as a high concept movie it does not work. The pacing is mediocre, the characters are boring, and the premise is inadequate for a feature length movie. I watched this with a friend who is also a fan of Larry David but neither of us could go the distance.
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