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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404908147
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404908145
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 4423
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 06, 1990
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Product Description:
Academy Award® Winner Kevin Kline (1988 Best Actor in a Supporting Role - A Fish Called Wanda) Tracey Ullman Academy Award® Winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor in a Leading Role - Kiss of the Spider Woman) River Phoenix Academy Award® Winner Joan Plowright (1992 Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Enchanting April) and Keanu Reeves star in this bawdy comedy based on the true story of a woman who tried to kill her husband ... four times! Comedienne Tracey Ullman is Rosalie Boca the devoted wife of a philandering pizza maker (Kline). When Rosalie learns that he's been squeezing more than just tomatoes her homicidal instincts take over. With the help of a New Age busboy (Phoenix) drug-addled cousins Harlan and Marlon (Hurt and Reeves) and her own mother (Plowright) Rosalie attempts to send Joey to that big bed in the sky. But love ultimately triumphs in this stranger-than-fiction comedy from the director of THE BIG CHILL and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST.System Requirements:Running Time 97 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396103399 Manufacturer No: 10339
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This spotty black comedy from Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill)--based on a true story--stars Kevin Kline as a womanizing pizzeria owner whose mousy wife (Tracey Ullman) tries multiple ways of murdering him with the aid of sundry friends and hired hands. The film never picks up the necessary momentum or develops the necessary tone to drive it, and one is left picking and choosing which of the performers is at least adequately entertaining. Kline is good but perhaps a bit too theatrical, and Joan Plowright is hilarious as his mother-in-law. The funniest joke in the whole thing belongs to William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as deeply-stoned, would-be-killers who emerge from a taxi and look as if they can't remember what planet they're on. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - The Real Skinny
This movie is based on the real life antics that occurred here in Allentown, Pa. to a friend of mine, his family and employees.
Here's the story: "When Anthony Toto, 37, a pizza-shop owner in Allentown, Pa., put up $50,000 bail for his wife Frances Lenore, the local police and others in the community were stunned. The reason: according to charges filed by the district attorney, Frances had conspired to murder her husband -- not once but twice.
The bizarre case began on ... Read More
Rating:  - Love, Pizza, Murder, And A Real Fun Cast
This 1990 release is one of those quirky little comedy movies overlooked almost immediately after release. But, unlike others, this cast is loaded with talent: Tracey Ullman, Kevin Kline, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, and Keanu Reeves. Kevin Kline's "Joey Boca" is a gem of characterization. [Imagine a Joey Buttafuoco with actual warmth and real charm, yet retaining the crassness.] Kevin Kline plays this endearing pizzamaking/Lothario to the hilt, complete with Italian accent. ... Read More
Rating:  - Yeah...He looked like Abraham Lincoln. Comin' up to bat...
Years ago I was awake at 2 am watching this movie for the twentieth time or so when my 55 year old Japanese ex-pat mom came stumbling out of her bedroom to use the restroom. She came back and was staring at the movie with me awhile but soon she sat down. And then she was laughing her big silent laugh that is reserved for only those things that are truly hilarious. I don't own that many movies but this is one that I can't live without. If you love movies with a perfect cast and about a million ... Read More
Rating: - Soooo funny!
First of all, I love Kevin Kline; I think he is a brilliant actor and I really enjoy nearly everything he's ever done. Put him together with a wonderful cast that includes Joan Plowright and Tracey Ullman, and wow...this is just laughing-so-hard-there's-tears-rolling-down-your-face funny. Joan Plowright is probably my favorite character but the two stoners are very close. Keanu Reeves plays his very best role here; maybe because he doesn't have to work very hard? River Phoenix is part of the ... Read More
Rating: - Just plain slap stick funny
Just a funny movie to watch when you want to be intertained and not have to think.
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