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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303893891
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303893899
Label: Edde Entertainment
Manufacturer: Edde Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Edde Entertainment
Release Date: October 25, 1995
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 42858
Studio: Edde Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pull cord...
Somehow it's almost terrible that every cover for Streamers has a picture of Matthew Modine on it. One even features him gray haired, looking like the middle aged guy he presently is. Because this isn't merely his film, or a showcase for his talents, etc. After all, with Robert Altman directing and David Rabe writing from his stage play-no slouches needing the face of a star to sell their works, this needs to be represented in a better, broader, more poetic way.
Like Coppola, Altman's ... Read More
Rating:  - Harrowing Depection of War Away From War
This movie by Robert Altman is one of the best adaptations of a play into a movie ever filmed. Everything is top notch starting with the deeply moving script by David Rabe. I can't think of another movie or play that deals with homophobia, racism and the senseless horror of war in one story. Altman films this firecracker story with great delicacy, as usual. The acting is absolutely out of this world. Matthew Modine has never been more moving. This movie is perfection.
Rating: - On the big screen it was potent and powerful as any
On the big screen it was potent and powerful as any film I had seen. The tension created kept me on the edge of my seat. Maybe as a gay man I perceived something of the conflict between myself and this rigid frigid military environment that crept into many a nighmare of mine. It had a live stage feel to it. Many emotions and personal historys were left up to the audience to interject, kind of compressing many diverse backgrounds into a short though volitale interaction. It remains one of my favorite ... Read More
Rating:  - Another mess by Altman
How can the man who directed M*A*S*H* and Nashville have directed this drek?
The characters are unbelievable, their actions unmotivated and the storyline hopelessly unrealistic.
What's most annoying is that there are brilliant images and ideas in this "almost movie" that will never be seen by most people as they will not have the patience to suffer through the worst parts.
The movie (based on a play) takes place entirely in a barracks as these Airborne soldiers are ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent adaptation of a brilliant play
Ever since I read "Hurlyburly" about five years ago, I have been a fan of David Rabe. When I became aware that "Streamers," possibly his best play, was made into a film, I wasted no time in renting it. I found the it to be true to the original script, with minor additions that do nothing to help or hinder the play's dramatic impact. The plot concerns the interaction of six men in a desolate army barracks. It is only days (weeks?) before the men are to be shipped out to vietnam, where they will, most ... Read More
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