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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131261691
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 08, 2004
Running Time: 213 minutes
Sales Rank: 63817
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 1982
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Bruno Lawrence- Smash Palace
I watched this film because it was recommended by a friend who had lived in New Zealand and knew Bruno -he was an excellent musician as well as an awesome actor. He would have been much more famous had he not died of cancer. This was the best film I have seen in a long time, gritty side of divorce, emotions unfortunatly most of us have dealt with, ahead of it's time really. Apparently Bruno was given quite a bit of input during the filming (the clothes through the door scene was his idea) and I really ... Read More
Rating: - wonderful
I didn't care too much for Sleeping Dogs, which I found to be too confusing for my tastes, but I loved Smash Palace. I remember seeing it while on vacation in New Zealand, and when it came out on DVD, I jumped at buying it. Bruno Lawrence delivers an incredible performance as Al Shaw. Smash Palace is a junkyard filled with run-down and wrecked card and is owned by Al and his wife Jacqui. It also serves as one of Al's two main obsessions. The other is with building a race car. Jacqui craves attention;Unfortunately, ... Read More
Rating:  - More collectible than watchable?
This unique "two-fer" release by Anchor Bay, billed as (what we assume to be) the "first" volume of the "Roger Donaldson Collection" leaves the thinking reviewer a bit stuck. Do I review each film seperately, or do I trot out a smarty-pants "auteur" essay about the director? Frankly, it was finally spotting "Smash Palace" on DVD that got me excited about this release. The co-feature, "Sleeping Dogs" (a speculative political thriller about what might happen if New Zealand suddenly fell under violently oppressive, Stalin ... Read More
Rating: - Smash Palace-Amazing Performances
I'm really glad Smash Palace is FINALLY going to be released on DVD. It's an amazing film. Shot in New Zealand, and released in 1981 (that long ago?), I remember it well.
Bruno Lawrence plays Al Shaw, a rather eccentric fellow who is a very difficult person to like. He is abusive to his wife (pointedly in a difficult-to-watch scene where he has a 'romantic interlude' with his wife, who then leaves him), obsessed with race cars, and a peculiar friend to a few selected souls, who don't always return the favor. ... Read More
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