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Picked this up at Tower after being intrigued by box and story synopsis. If you like Fatal Attraction, Psycho type movies, this one definitely fits the bill. Personally, I like poetic justice in a movie and this one has it! Abusive types beware! If the same things happened to you that happen to the bad guys in this movie, you'd think twice I bet! Go Amanda!

Although Justine Priestly is the featured star and on the video performance, David DeWitt steals the show and should be considered for an OSCAR. He performance is breathtaking and clearly shows his range as an actor. My sense is that other movie directors and producers will be knocking at his doorsteps
for future roles. This movie is a must see and a new star is born in David DeWitt.

Saw this film and was scared and excited all at once. Fell hook and sinker for the beautiful wife, played by Karen Grosso. Can't wait to get my very own copy!

Dottie Perez (Marisa Tomei) shines in this highly entertaining film. Both Juan Perez (Alfred Molina) and Dottie (strangers to one another) leave Cuba in a boatlift to come to the USA. Though they have separate agendas, they both become entangled in a creative plot that would convince immigration to boost their names to the top of the list for families to be sponsored. In the meantime, Juan searches for his wife and child who he hasn't seen for 20 years. Dottie, on the other hand, floats around with naivety about life in the Americas. Unaware that her beloved movie star is dead, she lights up with the anticipation of finally seeing John Wayne after she spots a sign for Hollywood some miles away. I was almost rolling on the floor when both Dottie and Juan realized the status of Elvis Presley and John Wayne.

I like that the film catches sincere moments; for instance, we see Tomei heating up the screen in her sexy dresses and unshaved underarm, and Juan even expresses that he's been in prison so long, his teeth are no good to kiss his beloved wife. All the characters add warmth and humor to this highly charged movie. Definitely a keeper. Don't miss it!

Marisa Tomei does a fantastic job on this one. This is a must see. I was surprised to note that this was another Mira Nair (of Monsoon Wedding fame) film. She weaves a sensitive and delicate plot with fire and passion and humor.

Presents the lighter side of a tragic family seperated by politics and the resulting misunderstandings that occur quite innocently. Sizzling performance by Ms. Tomei who seems unaware of her assets as a new arrival here. Need to see it several times to catch all the plot lines.

This movie is great with wonderful music and extrordinary skating from jumping to spinning. Performances by Katarina Witt, Rosalyn Sumners, and Toller Cranston make it even better. I would deffinetly suggest buying or taping it!

Katarina is great in this movie. Some great songs and even better skating. A fairytale for the whole family.

Being a big Charles Bronson fan, i consider this to be among one of his best movies. The usually tight lipped quite guy is actually very colorful and alive in this action packed thriller. What a great cast also that are along for the ride Robert Duvall, Jull Ireland, Randy Quaid, Sheere North and even John Houston. Also, Another great score by Jerry Goldsmith. The real winner here is Bronson's performance.
Well for the DVD? it is barebones not even a trailer and although i would have loved to see some extras on this, chances of that happening are very remote. The biggest joy is to finally have this in the widescreen format 2.35:1 after countless years of watching the lousy pan and scan versions on video and laserdisc, this is a real treat to have and a MUST own for bronson fans.

This is a fascinating film- a documentary of the Aleutian Islands campaign during WWII which focuses on a US bombing mission from Adak to Kiska- which was in Japanese hands. Remember this is a documentary- the real thing, and shot in color. We start off in Adak's central command base and get a sense of patriotic life in this harsh and forlorn corner of America. We meet brave young US Armed Servicemen at the forefront of the 'Ring of Fire' campaign. Then we are taken aboard a bomber and embark alongside a bomber squadron for the majectic but intense flight to Kiska. We are there during final onboard tactical considerations and through the entire bombing mission. This is very intense stuff- because it is real. There is a rattling of the plane and a whistling sound as we see the bombs falling onto the Japanese port base of Kiska and see anti-aircraft fire whizz by us in return. Phew!

I am not an alpha-male, 'go-get-em Rambo' combat freak by any means. That's not what this film, or WW II was about. This film captures the essence of true American struggle, risk, and heroicism, and, as a matter of fact, was up for the academy award for best documentary when it was firt released back in the 1940's. Its really that memorable.

What a vividness and reality in this film! Some people may criticize it as a propaganda film, but it can not be more realistic than any other war docomentary film. Hundreds times better than "Lost archives of WW¥±". Fantastically nostalgic!

Perhaps the best film noir screenplay ever written. Performances are flawless, direction is impeccable and the casting is without parallel. "Chinatown" leaves one awed.

With all the Oscar hoopla this past year around director Roman Polanski's sprawling, if flawed "The Pianist," one would think that it's the only Polanski movie out there. Well, if you've seen "The Pianist," you've seen a Holocaust movie like the rest of 'em. Take a trip back to Polanski's 1974 movie "Chinatown" and forget all you know.
Who knew a movie about a water conspiracy would be so nail-bitingly intriguing, and who'd a thought that screenwriter Robert Towne could take an old, dying genre (the "gumshoe" movie) and turn it into arguably the best screenplay this side of "Citizen Kane" and "All About Eve"? It's all here, with Jack Nicholson as smooth private eye Jake Gittes, and Faye Dunaway as the cryptic Evelyn Mulwray. Look closely, though. As "Chinatown" unfolds, it looks like it's going to be the typical detective movie, but twists and turns in the film's complicated narrative turn a simple San Fransisco water conspiracy into a twisted, perverse, nightmare that reeks of the Electra complex.
Yes, "The Maltese Falcon" has the style that set a trend, and "The Big Sleep" juggles plot strands like a sideshow freak, but "Chinatown" adds a tragic depth to its narrative that was never seen in such a movie and has never been seen since. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are no Nick and Nora Charles - there's a deep secret lying beneath it all that makes the movie a haunting and unforgettable experience. Dunaway hides the film's tragedy well, revealing it in an infamous scene that proves this is the finest work she's ever done. And Nicholson. Drawn slowly into a twisted web of corruption and deceit, he seems almost too smart for it, but Towne's script proves that there is a heart beneath his inquisitive glare, and it, along with all of ours, is broken in the film's devastating finale.
If you're into gumshoe flicks, this is the best one out there, but it also stands as one of the finest American films of all time. Just look at the film's ending - though "American," it carries a tragic, "European" touch that was no doubt a product of the painful history of Polanski. In a way, this movie relays the torture and pain of his Holocaust experience in a better fashion than "The Pianist." Even without digging into director's intentions, the final product of the movie is haunting, tragic, and won't get out of your head for days. One of the great lines of the film is "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." Fortunately, forgetting "Chinatown" is something anyone that ever sees it will never be able to do.

Chinatown is a superb film noir and one of the landmark films of the 1970s. The script by Robert Towne (winner of the Oscar for best original screenplay for 1974) is justly famous as perhaps the best screenplay ever written in Hollywood. This is not only a superior detective story but one of the most incisive studies of the morality of the American ruling class ever committed to film. Truly, Roman Polanski's best film with great performances by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (both Oscar nominated) and John Huston in a memorable turn as the face of evil.

If you have lived in Los Angeles, you will not want to miss this film as it details the machinations that brought water, and the Valley, to the city of angels. Hell -- if you have lived anywhere in the world you will not want to miss this film. A masterpiece.

Perhaps the best film noir screenplay ever written. Performances are flawless, direction is impeccable and the casting is without parallel. "Chinatown" leaves one awed.

With all the Oscar hoopla this past year around director Roman Polanski's sprawling, if flawed "The Pianist," one would think that it's the only Polanski movie out there. Well, if you've seen "The Pianist," you've seen a Holocaust movie like the rest of 'em. Take a trip back to Polanski's 1974 movie "Chinatown" and forget all you know.
Who knew a movie about a water conspiracy would be so nail-bitingly intriguing, and who'd a thought that screenwriter Robert Towne could take an old, dying genre (the "gumshoe" movie) and turn it into arguably the best screenplay this side of "Citizen Kane" and "All About Eve"? It's all here, with Jack Nicholson as smooth private eye Jake Gittes, and Faye Dunaway as the cryptic Evelyn Mulwray. Look closely, though. As "Chinatown" unfolds, it looks like it's going to be the typical detective movie, but twists and turns in the film's complicated narrative turn a simple San Fransisco water conspiracy into a twisted, perverse, nightmare that reeks of the Electra complex.
Yes, "The Maltese Falcon" has the style that set a trend, and "The Big Sleep" juggles plot strands like a sideshow freak, but "Chinatown" adds a tragic depth to its narrative that was never seen in such a movie and has never been seen since. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are no Nick and Nora Charles - there's a deep secret lying beneath it all that makes the movie a haunting and unforgettable experience. Dunaway hides the film's tragedy well, revealing it in an infamous scene that proves this is the finest work she's ever done. And Nicholson. Drawn slowly into a twisted web of corruption and deceit, he seems almost too smart for it, but Towne's script proves that there is a heart beneath his inquisitive glare, and it, along with all of ours, is broken in the film's devastating finale.
If you're into gumshoe flicks, this is the best one out there, but it also stands as one of the finest American films of all time. Just look at the film's ending - though "American," it carries a tragic, "European" touch that was no doubt a product of the painful history of Polanski. In a way, this movie relays the torture and pain of his Holocaust experience in a better fashion than "The Pianist." Even without digging into director's intentions, the final product of the movie is haunting, tragic, and won't get out of your head for days. One of the great lines of the film is "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." Fortunately, forgetting "Chinatown" is something anyone that ever sees it will never be able to do.

Chinatown is a superb film noir and one of the landmark films of the 1970s. The script by Robert Towne (winner of the Oscar for best original screenplay for 1974) is justly famous as perhaps the best screenplay ever written in Hollywood. This is not only a superior detective story but one of the most incisive studies of the morality of the American ruling class ever committed to film. Truly, Roman Polanski's best film with great performances by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway (both Oscar nominated) and John Huston in a memorable turn as the face of evil.

If you have lived in Los Angeles, you will not want to miss this film as it details the machinations that brought water, and the Valley, to the city of angels. Hell -- if you have lived anywhere in the world you will not want to miss this film. A masterpiece.

According to Amazon.com's "technical details" link for this item, the total run time is 240 minutes. According to IMDB, the miniseries first broadcast in 1989 runs 384 minutes. This jives with my recollection of four two-hour episodes, with commercials, broadcast in the winter of early 1989.

So YES, this is an edited version: Almost 2-1/2 hours have been removed. That seems a fairly severe abridgement. I wouldn't consider buying such a chop-up of this great, great Western. Five stars for the original film, one star for chainsaw editing.

DVD is edited.

However, they give you lots of bonus material that you can use as "salt in your wounds" while you steam over the hacked up product.

I was very disappointed. How do you justify changing such a well received classic?

NEARLY perfect.. picture IS, SO hear, the trumpets beat.. warm FELT EFFECTS,this IS better THAN life,IMAGINE living a complete life afrirmingORGASM INTERACTION, WITH THE TELEVISION SCREEN, comming to life, this is one to take home and be A PART OF YOUR home,[ HERE,the ole west given the time the parimeters of MADE FOR TELEVISION MINI SERIES, culls and gusses [ and their most accomplished RAG TAGGED poise ofMISSFITS, COLLECTION OF ARCHO TYPES,HumAN CASTe TYPES Cast To[ FIT EVERY DESCRIPTION,] IN legend ..... of vagabonds glued together , if you like WESTERNS, you achieve some kinda REVELATIONdrivePERFECT scope of cosmic UnFATHOMINGS, given meaning to stumble AROUND about, dusty destiny at odds with reasen, so IMMERSIVE your ONE with the cosmos, AT peace, this is worth a vacation ride, to the heart of the spirit of man what it feels to experience, having it shoved, down and dirty,BUT GOOD, JUST ALWAYS AROUND THE CORNER, the very good in,HEART taken handed dished out in,FELT STORY [LEGEND]

According to Amazon.com's "technical details" link for this item, the total run time is 240 minutes. According to IMDB, the miniseries first broadcast in 1989 runs 384 minutes. This jives with my recollection of four two-hour episodes, with commercials, broadcast in the winter of early 1989.

So YES, this is an edited version: Almost 2-1/2 hours have been removed. That seems a fairly severe abridgement. I wouldn't consider buying such a chop-up of this great, great Western. Five stars for the original film, one star for chainsaw editing.

DVD is edited.

However, they give you lots of bonus material that you can use as "salt in your wounds" while you steam over the hacked up product.

I was very disappointed. How do you justify changing such a well received classic?

NEARLY perfect.. picture IS, SO hear, the trumpets beat.. warm FELT EFFECTS,this IS better THAN life,IMAGINE living a complete life afrirmingORGASM INTERACTION, WITH THE TELEVISION SCREEN, comming to life, this is one to take home and be A PART OF YOUR home,[ HERE,the ole west given the time the parimeters of MADE FOR TELEVISION MINI SERIES, culls and gusses [ and their most accomplished RAG TAGGED poise ofMISSFITS, COLLECTION OF ARCHO TYPES,HumAN CASTe TYPES Cast To[ FIT EVERY DESCRIPTION,] IN legend ..... of vagabonds glued together , if you like WESTERNS, you achieve some kinda REVELATIONdrivePERFECT scope of cosmic UnFATHOMINGS, given meaning to stumble AROUND about, dusty destiny at odds with reasen, so IMMERSIVE your ONE with the cosmos, AT peace, this is worth a vacation ride, to the heart of the spirit of man what it feels to experience, having it shoved, down and dirty,BUT GOOD, JUST ALWAYS AROUND THE CORNER, the very good in,HEART taken handed dished out in,FELT STORY [LEGEND]