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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0027616858450
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 27, 2001
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 66603
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In stage Jimi Hendrix electrified audiences with his powerful guitar playing and mesmerizing performances. But behind the scenes this rising star was on a crash course with destiny. Filled with the boundary-pushing music that made him an icon and starring a fantastic ensemble cast including Wood Harris (Remember The Titans) Billy Zane (Titanic) Dorian Harewood (Sudden Death) and Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day) Hendrix is an eye-popping 're-creation of the era of peace love and psychedelic guitar riffs' (The Hollywood Reporter)!Raised on the wrong side of the tracks young Jimi Hendrix knew that his music was going to be his ticket to greatness. Discovered by an unscrupulous manager (Zane) and put on an exhausting world tour Hendrix was pushed to the limit but it paid off. Stunning audiences at Monterey and Woodstock this groundbreaking artist was clearly on his way up. Until fame led him into a dark haze of drugs and alcohol...a course which would fatally end his euphoric rise to the top.System Requirements:Starring: Vivica A. Fox Dorian Harewood Wood Harris and Billy Zane. Directed By: Leon Ichaso. Running Time: 103 Min. Color. This film is presented in 'Standard' format. Copyright 2002 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616858450 Manufacturer No: 1001534
Amazon.com:
Most television movies about real-life rock & roll heroes are a deadening mix of biographical bullet-points and sensational recreations of outré behavior. Rarely does the essence of a pop artist, great or otherwise, come into focus within the spuriously tragic atmosphere of the kind of TV bio-pic that has made fools of the likes of the Beach Boys and John Lennon. Happily, that's not the case with Leon Ichaso's Hendrix, a remarkably sensitive film, originally broadcast on cable, that refuses to exploit guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's mythic appetites nor reduce his prodigious genius to bite-size drama. It is, instead, a portrait of the artist as a field of incongruous energy, sprawling everywhere and nowhere at once, remote from his roots and pained by the disruptive, implacable force of his awesome talent. Wood Harris (Remember the Titans) is wonderful as Hendrix, masterfully capturing the rock god's legendary shyness, unabashed sexual adventurism, and constant redefinition of his purpose and sound. Keeping him on a short tether is Hendrix's management team, which insists he keep up a grueling schedule for the money and throws obstacles onto the path of his creative freedom. Cuban director Ichaso (Sugar Hill) makes clever use out of a fictional, black-and-white interview Hendrix supposedly gave a journalist on the day he died. In it he talks about everything that comes to mind: playing guitar for African American singers on the old rhythm & blues circuit, the thrill of his triumphs during the London blues scene in 1967, and his efforts to mollify advocates of black militarism without becoming involved in it. Terrific support work by Billy Zane as Hendrix's would-be puppeteer, Christian Potenza as former Animals bassist- turned-rock-manager Chas Chandler, and Dorian Harewood as Al Hendrix. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - wonderful
a lot of people put this movie down. i'm here to tell you that i saw it about a month ago & i dont know much about hendrix, but this movie made me so curious about him that i've purchased 3 books, and 2 dvd's just to learn more. he was so unique--in one book someone called him a beautiful butterfly that people tried to cage. he was bad to the bone and yet so vulnerable. he went thru hell never seeming to find the serenity he needed. anyhow i gave this movie 5 stars cuz i've been buying jimi hendrix ... Read More
Rating:  - Too much wrong with it to be enjoyable for true Hendrix fans
I can handle cheesy movies, and I don't expect to believe that someone can play Jimi perfectly, but this movie is pretty awful. Wood Harris is a decent actor, but he obvioualy doesn't know much about playing guitar (neither do I, so it has to be pretty obvious to distract me). He frequently speaks in a voice that is too high pitched and resorts to a huge cheesy grin far too often. I respect the effort, but the result isn't enough to carry the movie. Billy Zane should never do a British accent again ... Read More
Rating: - Love it
I really enjoyed this movie. Wood Harris did the best job that he can do as far as playing the role of Jimi. I enjoyed both this and the 1973 biography release. This is a must have for any Jimi Hendrix fan.
Rating: - Jimi's philosophy and spirituality focused on here. Bravo!
Great movie that gives insight into Jimi's soul. Yes maybe a better film could be made, emphasizing the music a bit more, and explaining the late 60's more, etc. etc. blah blah blah but I still insist that this is an excellent movie. I mean, how much info can you fit into a regular-length movie?! What a difficult project it must be to make a quality entertaining film about such a complicated, brilliant, and original musician. Just finding a competent Jimi impersonator (who can actually play the stuff correctly, ... Read More
Rating: - Hendrix?
I really thought this movie sucked, so much so that I couldn't watch the whole thing. I have been a Hendrix fan for a long time, and he is my biggest influence and musical idol. So naturally I was dissapointed when the actor playing Hendrix was not even playing the guitar; not to mention the studio musician they used for the guitar work was channeling texas blues, maybe SRV. It didn't even sound like Hendrix. And as has been mentioned, they didn't get the rights to any actual Hendrix songs, so the soundtrack ... Read More
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