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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304437186
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304437188
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: February 14, 1995
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 17018
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1993
Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... 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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