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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783118642
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118643
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 22574
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1997
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper star in an outrageous comedy based on a true story that takes you behind the scenes of one of the scientific world's most impactful discoveries. From the hip 60's to the happening 70's and into the excessive 80's two young doctors change the shape of America and raise the outstanding question of our time. . . ' 'Are they real?' 'Running Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359147029 Manufacturer No: 91470
Amazon.com:
Based on actual, if enhanced, facts, this bouncy comedy stars David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper as the Texas surgeons who pumped up women's profiles by inventing silicone breast implants in 1962. Dispensing scathing social commentary, this follows the mismatched and rather unsympathetic pair over three decades. Cooper, an often underrated actor, breaks away from his usual typecasting as a laconic cowboy. He plays an angry, Machiavellian doctor who sees potential and enormous financial reward in Schwimmer's gelatinous inventions. Schwimmer displays more range than we've previously seen, and there are some interesting supporting faces amid all that jiggly silicone. It is not the vulgar farce you might expect from the title, but a stylish blend of comedy and drama. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Breast Above the Rest
This is a fun film, featuring some quick, snappy writing. If you love films that span the decades and include plenty of pop culture spin, while based in some fact (even if it takes some liberties now and then) ie. think a la "Boogie Nights" and "The People V.S. Larry Flynt," you'll like this film.
Great production values and David Schwimmer is fun in this feature film breakout role as he was preparing for his post-"Friends" career. Chris Cooper is a stellar standout, as usual.
Of course, ... Read More
Rating:  - Look underneath the cheese and find a good movie
I really liked this movie, although when I saw it in my TV schedule listed to be shown at 2am in the morning I thought it would be a tacky B-rated sex movie aimed at teenage boys.
Due to its unfortunate tacky title and the timeslot it achieved it was an easy misconception to make. In fact there were only two things holding my interest, David Schwimmer from Friends was in it and I needed a half decent show to keep me company while I was up at that hour on my computer.
Breast ... Read More
Rating:  - Not a very good film, i like the history but a bit boring, however i am a fan of Schwimmer
Is nice but at times a bit boring. The history in the film is good but a bit slow at times.
Rating: - Based on a true story, slightly augmented
HBO has a great knack at taking bits of history which we never think much about, and turning them into incredibly entertaining movies. Example: This breezy, very clever satire about the rise and fall of the two inventors of the silcone breast implant.
David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper star as the two doctors who come up with the idea of the implant, and both play there parts very well. Say what you want about Schwimmer, (I never liked him in other roles), but he fairs pretty well here, as ... Read More
Rating: - A slightly augmented history of silicone breast implants
"Brest Men" is not exactly a black comedy, but it has some moments that are definitely in that direction. This 1997 HBO film tells the story, "slightly augmented," of the invention, development, and commercial exploitation of silicone breast implants. The punny phrase "slightly augmented" means "fictionalized in this case. Silicone gel breast implants were invented by the plastic surgeons Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow at the University of Texas in the early 1960s. They were then developed as a commercial ... Read More
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