Free Enterprise
Starring:Eric McCormack, Audie England, Carl Bressler, Thomas Hobson, Jennifer Sommerfield, Rafer Weigel, William Shatner, Marilyn Kentz, Annika Brinbly, Patrick Van Horn, Lori Lively, Sharen Leibouir, Diana Cignoni, Amanda Ingber, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Ethan Glazer, Phyllis Franklin, Brandon Kleyla, Spencer Klein, Mickey Cassidy
Director: Robert Meyer Burnett
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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This modest but likeable movie is driven by a sincere love of the screenwriters' childhood kitsch, with Star Trek dominant above all--although Logan's Run, the X-Men, Planet of the Apes, and dozens of other science fiction touchstones of the 1970s have been worked in as well. Even an action figurine of almighty Isis, from the Saturday morning TV show, plays a major role in the plot, if plot is the right word. The story follows two guys on the fringe of the movie industry: Robert (Rafer Wiegel) edits movies like Teen Bimbo Beach Assault, while Mark (Eric McCormack from Will and Grace) is writing a screenplay about a serial killer who murders all the characters from The Brady Bunch. The movie touches on their career struggles but spends most of its time with their floundering love lives, suggesting that their pop-culture programming may not be the best model for life. The actors are clearly enjoying themselves, and the writing makes its innumerable pop references with wit, but what really makes the movie work is William Shatner. Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer
Description
Free Enterprise is a dysfunctional love story about two avid "Star Trek" fans, Robert (Rafer Weigel) and Mark (Eric McCormack), who meet their idol, William Shatner, and discover he's nothing like his fictional counterpart. With their illusions shattered, the two friends must face their fears about the future in this contemporary comedy that combines the hip, L.A. romantic milieu of "Swingers," with the knowing pop culture sophistication of "Clerks." William Shatner, Rafer Weigel, Eric McCormack
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- Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny
- Beam up for this ENTERPRISE
- Star Trek Fans must have
- Well, this is a lot better than T.J. Hooker...
- The Star Trek generation comes of age
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Free Enterprise
Starring: Eric McCormack , Audie England , Carl Bressler , Thomas Hobson , and Jennifer Sommerfield
Director: Robert Meyer Burnett
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ASIN: B0001ZX0HE
Release Date: 2006-03-07 |
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This modest but likeable movie is driven by a sincere love of the screenwriters' childhood kitsch, with Star Trek dominant above all--although Logan's Run, the X-Men, Planet of the Apes, and dozens of other science fiction touchstones of the 1970s have been worked in as well. Even an action figurine of almighty Isis, from the Saturday morning TV show, plays a major role in the plot, if plot is the right word. The story follows two guys on the fringe of the movie industry: Robert (Rafer Wiegel) edits movies like Teen Bimbo Beach Assault, while Mark (Eric McCormack from Will and Grace) is writing a screenplay about a serial killer who murders all the characters from The Brady Bunch. The movie touches on their career struggles but spends most of its time with their floundering love lives, suggesting that their pop-culture programming may not be the best model for life. The actors are clearly enjoying themselves, and the writing makes its innumerable pop references with wit, but what really makes the movie work is William Shatner. Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer
Description
FREE ENTERPRISE changed the way science fiction fans saw William Shatner and themselves in a performance since called a comic masterpiece. Starring Eric McCormack (WILL & GRACE), Rafer Weigel (RATED X), Audie England (DELTA OF VENUS), Phil LaMarr (PULP FICTION), Deborah Van Valkenburgh (THE WARRIORS) and William Shatner as Bill. Now, you can boldly go beyond FREE ENTERPRISE in an all- new special edition supervised by the film's director and writer, mastered from the original theatrical elements featuring exclusive footage re-edited into the original film for the first time ever in a brand-new state-of-the art anamorphic transfer (enhanced for widescreen televisions) featuring deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes footage from the filmmakers' personal archives.
Customer Reviews:
Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny.......2007-04-20
Free Enterprise has it's moments, but it goes from straight out Trek comedy to a romantic drama/comedy with little references to Star Trek. The movie starts off with one kid trying to get into the theater to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while another kid in school is fighting a bully who is picking on him for wearing a gold Starfleet uniform like Kirk's. These two people grow up and become friends, and their dream comes true when they accidentally meet Shatner at a bookstore. After all of that, the film goes into drama mode when they start to fall in love with girls they meet and the movie feels like it drags since it can't live up to the beginning of the movie.
I liked the drama and romantic comedy, don't get me wrong, but with a name like "Free Enterprise" you would think that it would have more things related to Star Trek in it. The best scenes of the movie are the scenes with Shatner, he definitely steals the screen because no one can parody Shatner better than Shatner himself! Overall, this is a good movie that Trek fans of the original series will appreciate more than non-trekkies. The best parts of the movie are the beginning and end, the middle just leaves me asking myself "what?" It is almost a completely different movie, but all of the Shatner scenes are great!
Beam up for this ENTERPRISE.......2007-01-20
William Shatner has done the ultimate parody of himself in Free Enterprise. The script takes satire to the max as Shatner plays an actor name William Shatner. He also sends up Star Trek and SF conventions
Pre Will & Grace Eric McCormick and Rafer Weigel play two best friends who look up to Shatner as a mentor...and they find he is a real person
For those fans of the Star Trek genre, this is almost as funny as Clerks
go get this one!
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Star Trek Fans must have.......2007-01-16
For those who enjoyed the lighter side of William Shatner, you will not be disappointed. This movie exemplifies the manner in which a thirty-something can still remain a child at heart.
Great fun!
Well, this is a lot better than T.J. Hooker..........2006-11-26
In 1987, in that infamous Saturday Night Live skit, William Shatner shocked his STAR TREK fans by admonishing them to "get a life" and to "move out of (their) mother's basement." In the very funny FREE ENTERPRISE, the undermining of Captain Kirk's mythic status continues and the re-invention of William Shatner begins. The back story to FREE ENTERPRISE was that William Shatner, initially, adamantly refused to take part in the film because he found his role, as originally written, to be too embarassingly iconic. He then collaborated with the movie makers, Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, to make over the role of "Bill Shatner" and add in more human foibles to the character. The resulting end product will leave you in stitches.
FREE ENTERPRISE follows the travails of two Los Angeles Star Trek-obsessed filmmakers: the self-contained, egotistical but going-nowhere-in-his-career Mark (Eric McCormack), whose 30th birthday is imminent, and his best friend, the irresponsible womanizer and slacker Robert (Rafer Weigel), who, in 6 months, will turn 30 himself. Mark had just blown a sales pitch (of his film opus, called BRADY KILLER) and Robert had just been dumped by his gal and accused of lacking commitment. Mark and Robert venture to a bookstore and bump into their longtime idol, Captain Kirk...I mean, William Shatner.... Initially put off by the duo's attentions, Shatner is soon imbibing with them in a bar and regaling them with his projected, mostly one-man show - a 6 hour long, musical play, titled WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & WILLIAM SHATNER PRESENT: JULIUS CAESAR. Mark and Robert, thru the course of the film, discover that their hero is in fact a somewhat pathetic, aging fella who may be innately likable and may be down with the homies but still is someone who feels the pangs of self-doubt, especially when around women. As Robert wails to Mark, "The man that we just met is not the man who invented the Corbomite Maneuver or the man who almost died defeating the Doomsday Machine!" Most of the film, of course, chronicles Robert and Mark's attempts to find meaning in their lives as they deal with love, friendship, job fulfillment, and the horrors of turning 30. "Bill" Shatner sporadically pops in and out and, on occasion, even imparts wisdom when not falling down drunk or prattling about his musical play. It all culminates, of course, with Shatner's lively performance of "No Tears for Caesar."
I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to see this movie. This is a perfect complement for the tongue in cheek documentaries TREKKIES & TREKKIES 2. FREE ENTERPRISE is an independent film that reeks of irreverence and hipness. It delights in wallowing in in-joke pop cultural riffs, to which your inner geek will rejoice. Personally, I got a kick out of the various sci-fi film references (did you know 1982 was the best year ever for sci-fi films?). And, along the way, this flick also taught me the proper usage of the adjective "Wagnerian." Needless to say, STAR TREK references remain resolute in their frequency and consistency. There certainly isn't a shortage of witty, clever throw-away lines, some of which admittedly necessitates a disturbingly steep knowledge of nerdy pop culture trivia. I love how Mark and Robert, two intelligent, well-educated dudes, are still so influenced by their childhood obsessions. Captain Kirk's iconic hold is so strong that when Mark attempts to fix his best friend's romantic woes, he adapts a Kirk monologue to convince Robert's erstwhile girlfriend.
Rafer Weigel and Audie England are perfectly fine as Robert and his geek goddess soulmate Claire, while Eric McCormack is excellent as the acerbic know-it-all who actually suffers from well-camouflaged insecurities. But it is William Shatner, gleefully satirizing himself, who shines the brightest. Shatner channels his inner ham and somehow triumphs with a strong and surprisingly touching performance. With his fearless, full-on commitment to the role, I don't doubt that he won back many of the Trekker fans he alienated way back in SNL.
The special features highlights for me are: the Film Commentary by Writer/Editor/Director Robert Meyer Burnett and Writer/Producer Mark A. Altman; the 14 deleted scenes, running over 30 minutes; "Ebionics" - a glossary of FREE ENTERPRISE terms aimed to help non-pop culture folks make sense of the otherwise indecipherable dialogue; "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" - the making of FREE ENTERPRISE; Screen Tests of Audie England, Mark's "midget" date, the sexy blonde in the car, and the green-painted girl; and, naturally, the "No Tears For Caesar" Spoken/Rap Video.
This was a project of love by Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, the writers of the film. These two, who also direct and produce this indie, are, not too shockingly, the basis for the fictional Robert and Mark, and, throughout the movie, their love of STAR TREK and science fiction shines thru. Somewhat masked behind the cool premise, the wit, and the hilarity is that FREE ENTERPRISE is, at the core, a study in Gen X dysfunctionality, as well as a sensitive and thoughtful depiction of two friends striving to find purpose while eking out a living in the outer peripheries of Hollywood. This is a very, very good movie, which served to lengthen Shatner's career and make him fairly relevant again. Good going, Captain Kirk. But I wish we would've met Mark's phone orgasm girl.
The Star Trek generation comes of age.......2006-09-25
Other reviews note Shatner's hilarious performance, which it is - but the movie also has serious messages about coming of age, the importance of friends, and getting into an adult relationship. The commentaries are well done and interesting.
Average customer rating:
- A wonderful compilation
- Revolution OS
- a valuable record
- boring
- Don't look so surprised
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Revolution OS
Starring: Linus Torvalds , Richard M. Stallman , Eric Raymond , Bruce Perens , and Larry Augustin
Director: J.T.S. Moore
Manufacturer: Wonderview Productions
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ASIN: B0000A9GLO
Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
Description
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers and computer programmers who rebelled against Microsoft and the idea of proprietary software to create GNU, Linux, and the Open Source movement. Shot on location in Silicon Valley on 35mm film and in widescreen, REVOLUTION OS captures an offbeat group of characters who are three-parts libertarian, two-parts communist, and one-part bad garage band.
Customer Reviews:
A wonderful compilation .......2007-07-04
A wonderful documentary about the GNU movement and birth of Linux. Some hard to find interviews and recordings of some key events. The documentary has been very well prepared, with all necessary details in place.
I read Eric Raymond's Cathedral and the Bazaar straight after the book, which led me to rethink my business model. I would recommend it to all young entrepreneurs.
Revolution OS.......2007-03-09
Great movie. Wow the part about Cygnus was wonderful. The Open Source movement misses the point on freedom but that is an idealogical debate that movies like this are bound to spark. The producer was on TLLTS in about episode 179 or so and that was sooo good. I heard about the movie from google first and downloaded parts of it but I did actually buy it before the guy was on TLLTS. The Linux Code movie is also being pirated and I learned of and got it from google video now I want to buy it but it seems the company has gone belly up already. Free media and software companies need to do well and we need them to do very well. We need this stuff. The point of GNU FREE is not free as in cost. It is not even about better quality. The point of GNU FREE is not about making the rich CEOs of Red Hat and Novel even richer. It is FREEDOM FREEDOM all the time and in every way. All of the other points are just tools to acquire and spread that FREEDOM. BUY THIS MOVIE!
a valuable record.......2007-02-07
I'll be upfront: one reason I like this documentary is that J.T.S. Moore included some of the photographs I contributed. In any case, the movie is a valuable historic record, showing many of the prominent figures in free and open source software in a direct way. They tell us how they see things in their own words, which you don't often get to see.
Even as something of an insider, I didn't expect the film to be as interesting as it turned out to be. You don't normally think of computer geeks as feature film material and I'm still surprised that it ever got made, much less sold on Amazon. Kudos to Moore and his team for giving us a very watchable film as well as a historic document.
boring.......2006-01-28
This movie is mostly interviews about free software philosophy, open source philosophy, and the rise of linux in the business world. I found the film dull, and I am a linux geek. I do give it three stars because I can see where some may be entertained or informed by the discussions the interviewer had with Stallman, Torvalds, etc. My wife now better understands why I wear a tux hat :) I also enjoyed watching Stallman's manerisms and listening to him speak, since I've heard that he may have Asperger's Syndrome (as does my son, which is why that interested me).
Don't look so surprised.......2006-01-12
This film actually follows the mainstream development and development methods of the vary software that is making it possible for you to read this review. Some people have a tendency to think that is the alternative to Microsoft; the reality, it is Microsoft that is the deviate along with a few other companies (However I must admit I have an admiration for AIX.)
So you will derive from this film software has started out open source and when companies started to button it up the people just moved on to other forms of creating and maintaining open systems.
The film is fun in its self as it lets those there were in the movement see themselves in retrospect and those that missed the boat to catch up. Too bad it cut short being 2002 to miss the inroads of Linux and Fodor both as replacement and coexistent in the information technology world of today.
Average customer rating:
- Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny
- Beam up for this ENTERPRISE
- Star Trek Fans must have
- Well, this is a lot better than T.J. Hooker...
- The Star Trek generation comes of age
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Free Enterprise
Starring: Eric McCormack , Audie England , Carl Bressler , Thomas Hobson , and Jennifer Sommerfield
Director: Robert Meyer Burnett
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Release Date: 1999-11-09 |
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This modest but likeable movie is driven by a sincere love of the screenwriters' childhood kitsch, with Star Trek dominant above all--although Logan's Run, the X-Men, Planet of the Apes, and dozens of other science fiction touchstones of the 1970s have been worked in as well. Even an action figurine of almighty Isis, from the Saturday morning TV show, plays a major role in the plot, if plot is the right word. The story follows two guys on the fringe of the movie industry: Robert (Rafer Wiegel) edits movies like Teen Bimbo Beach Assault, while Mark (Eric McCormack from Will and Grace) is writing a screenplay about a serial killer who murders all the characters from The Brady Bunch. The movie touches on their career struggles but spends most of its time with their floundering love lives, suggesting that their pop-culture programming may not be the best model for life. The actors are clearly enjoying themselves, and the writing makes its innumerable pop references with wit, but what really makes the movie work is William Shatner. Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer
Description
Free Enterprise is a dysfunctional love story about two avid "Star Trek" fans, Robert (Rafer Weigel) and Mark (Eric McCormack), who meet their idol, William Shatner, and discover he's nothing like his fictional counterpart. With their illusions shattered, the two friends must face their fears about the future in this contemporary comedy that combines the hip, L.A. romantic milieu of "Swingers," with the knowing pop culture sophistication of "Clerks." William Shatner, Rafer Weigel, Eric McCormack
Customer Reviews:
Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny.......2007-04-20
Free Enterprise has it's moments, but it goes from straight out Trek comedy to a romantic drama/comedy with little references to Star Trek. The movie starts off with one kid trying to get into the theater to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while another kid in school is fighting a bully who is picking on him for wearing a gold Starfleet uniform like Kirk's. These two people grow up and become friends, and their dream comes true when they accidentally meet Shatner at a bookstore. After all of that, the film goes into drama mode when they start to fall in love with girls they meet and the movie feels like it drags since it can't live up to the beginning of the movie.
I liked the drama and romantic comedy, don't get me wrong, but with a name like "Free Enterprise" you would think that it would have more things related to Star Trek in it. The best scenes of the movie are the scenes with Shatner, he definitely steals the screen because no one can parody Shatner better than Shatner himself! Overall, this is a good movie that Trek fans of the original series will appreciate more than non-trekkies. The best parts of the movie are the beginning and end, the middle just leaves me asking myself "what?" It is almost a completely different movie, but all of the Shatner scenes are great!
Beam up for this ENTERPRISE.......2007-01-20
William Shatner has done the ultimate parody of himself in Free Enterprise. The script takes satire to the max as Shatner plays an actor name William Shatner. He also sends up Star Trek and SF conventions
Pre Will & Grace Eric McCormick and Rafer Weigel play two best friends who look up to Shatner as a mentor...and they find he is a real person
For those fans of the Star Trek genre, this is almost as funny as Clerks
go get this one!
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
Star Trek Fans must have.......2007-01-16
For those who enjoyed the lighter side of William Shatner, you will not be disappointed. This movie exemplifies the manner in which a thirty-something can still remain a child at heart.
Great fun!
Well, this is a lot better than T.J. Hooker..........2006-11-26
In 1987, in that infamous Saturday Night Live skit, William Shatner shocked his STAR TREK fans by admonishing them to "get a life" and to "move out of (their) mother's basement." In the very funny FREE ENTERPRISE, the undermining of Captain Kirk's mythic status continues and the re-invention of William Shatner begins. The back story to FREE ENTERPRISE was that William Shatner, initially, adamantly refused to take part in the film because he found his role, as originally written, to be too embarassingly iconic. He then collaborated with the movie makers, Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, to make over the role of "Bill Shatner" and add in more human foibles to the character. The resulting end product will leave you in stitches.
FREE ENTERPRISE follows the travails of two Los Angeles Star Trek-obsessed filmmakers: the self-contained, egotistical but going-nowhere-in-his-career Mark (Eric McCormack), whose 30th birthday is imminent, and his best friend, the irresponsible womanizer and slacker Robert (Rafer Weigel), who, in 6 months, will turn 30 himself. Mark had just blown a sales pitch (of his film opus, called BRADY KILLER) and Robert had just been dumped by his gal and accused of lacking commitment. Mark and Robert venture to a bookstore and bump into their longtime idol, Captain Kirk...I mean, William Shatner.... Initially put off by the duo's attentions, Shatner is soon imbibing with them in a bar and regaling them with his projected, mostly one-man show - a 6 hour long, musical play, titled WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & WILLIAM SHATNER PRESENT: JULIUS CAESAR. Mark and Robert, thru the course of the film, discover that their hero is in fact a somewhat pathetic, aging fella who may be innately likable and may be down with the homies but still is someone who feels the pangs of self-doubt, especially when around women. As Robert wails to Mark, "The man that we just met is not the man who invented the Corbomite Maneuver or the man who almost died defeating the Doomsday Machine!" Most of the film, of course, chronicles Robert and Mark's attempts to find meaning in their lives as they deal with love, friendship, job fulfillment, and the horrors of turning 30. "Bill" Shatner sporadically pops in and out and, on occasion, even imparts wisdom when not falling down drunk or prattling about his musical play. It all culminates, of course, with Shatner's lively performance of "No Tears for Caesar."
I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to see this movie. This is a perfect complement for the tongue in cheek documentaries TREKKIES & TREKKIES 2. FREE ENTERPRISE is an independent film that reeks of irreverence and hipness. It delights in wallowing in in-joke pop cultural riffs, to which your inner geek will rejoice. Personally, I got a kick out of the various sci-fi film references (did you know 1982 was the best year ever for sci-fi films?). And, along the way, this flick also taught me the proper usage of the adjective "Wagnerian." Needless to say, STAR TREK references remain resolute in their frequency and consistency. There certainly isn't a shortage of witty, clever throw-away lines, some of which admittedly necessitates a disturbingly steep knowledge of nerdy pop culture trivia. I love how Mark and Robert, two intelligent, well-educated dudes, are still so influenced by their childhood obsessions. Captain Kirk's iconic hold is so strong that when Mark attempts to fix his best friend's romantic woes, he adapts a Kirk monologue to convince Robert's erstwhile girlfriend.
Rafer Weigel and Audie England are perfectly fine as Robert and his geek goddess soulmate Claire, while Eric McCormack is excellent as the acerbic know-it-all who actually suffers from well-camouflaged insecurities. But it is William Shatner, gleefully satirizing himself, who shines the brightest. Shatner channels his inner ham and somehow triumphs with a strong and surprisingly touching performance. With his fearless, full-on commitment to the role, I don't doubt that he won back many of the Trekker fans he alienated way back in SNL.
The special features highlights for me are: the Film Commentary by Writer/Editor/Director Robert Meyer Burnett and Writer/Producer Mark A. Altman; the 14 deleted scenes, running over 30 minutes; "Ebionics" - a glossary of FREE ENTERPRISE terms aimed to help non-pop culture folks make sense of the otherwise indecipherable dialogue; "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" - the making of FREE ENTERPRISE; Screen Tests of Audie England, Mark's "midget" date, the sexy blonde in the car, and the green-painted girl; and, naturally, the "No Tears For Caesar" Spoken/Rap Video.
This was a project of love by Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, the writers of the film. These two, who also direct and produce this indie, are, not too shockingly, the basis for the fictional Robert and Mark, and, throughout the movie, their love of STAR TREK and science fiction shines thru. Somewhat masked behind the cool premise, the wit, and the hilarity is that FREE ENTERPRISE is, at the core, a study in Gen X dysfunctionality, as well as a sensitive and thoughtful depiction of two friends striving to find purpose while eking out a living in the outer peripheries of Hollywood. This is a very, very good movie, which served to lengthen Shatner's career and make him fairly relevant again. Good going, Captain Kirk. But I wish we would've met Mark's phone orgasm girl.
The Star Trek generation comes of age.......2006-09-25
Other reviews note Shatner's hilarious performance, which it is - but the movie also has serious messages about coming of age, the importance of friends, and getting into an adult relationship. The commentaries are well done and interesting.
Average customer rating:
- "Let's go smash everything."
- Travel to an Unknown Land
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Power Trip
Starring: Bill O'Reilly (III) , Dennis Bakke , Piers Lewis , Michael Scholey , and Butch Mederos
Director: Paul Devlin
Manufacturer: Docurama
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ASIN: B000GG4Y00
Release Date: 2006-09-26 |
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"A compelling and passionate tale of a country rebuilding itself." (Hollywood Reporter) POWER TRIP has "suspense, comedy and some colorful characters" (Variety) and develops into an "increasingly absurdist standoff between Communist-inspired cynicism and tenacious capitalist zeal." (New York Daily News) Five-time Emmy award-winner Paul Devlin (SlamNation, NBC and CBS Olympics) masterfully captures a comic clash of cultures that combusts when an American energy company, AES, tries to transform the dysfunctional electricity distribution system in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Struggling against a backdrop of corruption, assassination, and street rioting, AES manager Piers Lewis must convince the formerly communist populace to pay for their electricity, while the Georgians, from pensioners to the Energy Minister, devise ingenious ways to get it free. Amidst hot tempers and high drama, Lewis balances his love for the Georgian people with the hardships his company creates for them as they work together to rebuild a nation from the rubble of Soviet collapse. DVD Features: Deleted Scenes; Full-Length Georgian Cartoon; Georgian Public Service Announcements; Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection
Customer Reviews:
"Let's go smash everything.".......2007-05-09
Picture this:
In 1998, the American corporation, AES purchased Telasi, a previously state run electricity-distribution company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
Here are some numbers to stew over:
When AES acquired Telasi, the average electricity bill in Tibilisi, Georgia was $24 a month. Wages on average ran somewhere between $15-$75 a month. Do you see the basic problem here?
Under Telasi ownership, electricity in Georgia was free. Once AES took over the operation of distributing electricity, only 10% of the customers paid their bills. Meanwhile AES lost $120,000 a day. Obviously this situation could not last long, and what took place in Georgia is the subject of this fascinating documentary by Paul Devlin.
With outraged customers unable to pay their bills, the army becoming deadbeat customers, businesses getting enormous amounts of electricity 'free' thanks to cronyism, and with gangs and politicians muscling their way into the explosive mix, "Power Trip" is an entertaining examination of just what happens when an American corporation tries to run an electricity company in Georgia. And in the meanwhile, we get a good look at Georgia itself--a country fraught with civil unrest, and partially constructed buildings left by the exiting Russians--buildings that are now full of illegal hookups and rigged meters. Just as things look difficult for the population and the AES employees who are trying to wrest money for their services, things get even tougher when the long Georgian winter sets in, and a power deficit begins.
"Power Trip" explains the system of electricity distribution in Georgia, and this helps in understanding the various levels of corruption. And the film examines all sides of the issue by including interviews from outraged customers, crafty politicians, employees and management. By the time this lively documentary concludes, one cannot help but wonder whether AES did their sums before launching off into this highly risky venture--displacedhuman
Travel to an Unknown Land.......2007-03-27
Againt a background of lovely, ethnic folk music (of the region), this is the story of the electrification of the former Soviet Union of Georgia, a land where 90% of the people cannot or will not pay for the power. The events that unfold rival any theatre of the absurd.
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Classic Business Films DVD: 1920s 1960s Business Management, Opportunity, Development, Strategies, Free Enterprise & The American Dream
Manufacturer: Quality Information Publishers Inc.
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- (1) Business Films: Public Relations Tools (1968) - 14 Minutes
- (2) Story of Enterprise (1955) - 12 Minutes (3) Flying Businessman (1953) - 13 Minutes
- (4) What Is A Corporation? (1949) - 10 Minutes (5) What Is Business? (1948) - 10 Minutes
- (6) Success in Business (1928) - 11 Minutes (7) The Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them (1917) - 33 Minutes
ASIN: B000R8YHWC |
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This compilation explores business trends and the American businessman during the first half of the 20th century. This sampling of vintage business films touch on a wide variety topics such as distribution, production, advertising, public relations, accounting, corporations, and the American Dream. Table Of Contents: (1) Business Films: Public Relations Tools (1968) - This film documents speeches from the '68 Public Relations Society of America conference. Speakers present on a variety of issues, including quality, sponsorship, advertising, educational films, theatrical distribution and production in the television and movie industries 14 Minutes (2) Story of Enterprise (1955) - The true story of Mr. Thomas A. Carvelas (Tom Carvel), whom founded the Carvel Brand Corporation, is presented by noted historian and professor, Clifton L. Ganus and the American Adventure 12 Minutes (3) Flying Businessman (1953) - This classic propaganda film promotes aviation as a way to increase the potential for businessmen. It includes footage of airport operations and businessmen in flight 13 Minutes (4) What Is A Corporation? (1949) - This educational film explains the basics of corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietors with a focus on legal rights and standing 10 Minutes (5) What Is Business? (1948) - This propaganda film promotes free enterprise as essential to freedom and the American lifestyle. The film explains the importance of what it calls, the four major industries, which are farming, lumbering and fishing, mining, and manufacturing 10 Minutes (6) Success in Business (1928) - This silent film tells the uplifting story of a man who finds the American Dream 11 Minutes (7) The Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them (1917) - This fun silent propaganda film promotes cash registers as the great hope to save struggling businesses in the early 1900s 33 Minutes
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The New Rules of the Game
Starring: David Ogden Stiers
Director: William Cran , and Greg Barker
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ASIN: B00008YZI1
Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
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The price of eggs fell.......2006-01-06
This is one of the best designs and clearest documentary on how economic reform came about. It is a must see for those that are too young or were too busy to see it happening. It is worth owning this set so one can use repeated reviewing and pick up on the nuances.
This documentary far surpasses any written works on theories (there is a companion book available). You get to see all the economists in person or film. For my part the design is not a bunch of detached sound bites but a coherent and supported (informed) display of before and after.
Not to distract from this 3 volume set there is a lesser know concept that you may find imbedded in these economic reforms. Read "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Agony of Reform
Starring: David Ogden Stiers
Director: William Cran , and Greg Barker
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ASIN: B00008YZI0
Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
Customer Reviews:
The price of eggs fell.......2006-01-06
This is one of the best designs and clearest documentary on how economic reform came about. It is a must see for those that are too young or were too busy to see it happening. It is worth owning this set so one can use repeated reviewing and pick up on the nuances.
This documentary far surpasses any written works on theories (there is a companion book available). You get to see all the economists in person or film. For my part the design is not a bunch of detached sound bites but a coherent and supported (informed) display of before and after.
Not to distract from this 3 volume set there is a lesser know concept that you may find imbedded in these economic reforms. Read "The Capitalist Manifesto" by Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer Jerome Adler
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Code of the West
Starring: James Warren , Debra Alden , John Laurenz , Steve Brodie , and Rita Lynn
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- Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny
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Free Enterprise [Region 2]
Starring: Eric McCormack , Audie England , Carl Bressler , Thomas Hobson , and Jennifer Sommerfield
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This modest but likeable movie is driven by a sincere love of the screenwriters' childhood kitsch, with Star Trek dominant above all--although Logan's Run, the X-Men, Planet of the Apes, and dozens of other science fiction touchstones of the 1970s have been worked in as well. Even an action figurine of almighty Isis, from the Saturday morning TV show, plays a major role in the plot, if plot is the right word. The story follows two guys on the fringe of the movie industry: Robert (Rafer Wiegel) edits movies like Teen Bimbo Beach Assault, while Mark (Eric McCormack from Will and Grace) is writing a screenplay about a serial killer who murders all the characters from The Brady Bunch. The movie touches on their career struggles but spends most of its time with their floundering love lives, suggesting that their pop-culture programming may not be the best model for life. The actors are clearly enjoying themselves, and the writing makes its innumerable pop references with wit, but what really makes the movie work is William Shatner. Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer
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Clerks For Trekkies But Not As Funny.......2007-04-20
Free Enterprise has it's moments, but it goes from straight out Trek comedy to a romantic drama/comedy with little references to Star Trek. The movie starts off with one kid trying to get into the theater to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture, while another kid in school is fighting a bully who is picking on him for wearing a gold Starfleet uniform like Kirk's. These two people grow up and become friends, and their dream comes true when they accidentally meet Shatner at a bookstore. After all of that, the film goes into drama mode when they start to fall in love with girls they meet and the movie feels like it drags since it can't live up to the beginning of the movie.
I liked the drama and romantic comedy, don't get me wrong, but with a name like "Free Enterprise" you would think that it would have more things related to Star Trek in it. The best scenes of the movie are the scenes with Shatner, he definitely steals the screen because no one can parody Shatner better than Shatner himself! Overall, this is a good movie that Trek fans of the original series will appreciate more than non-trekkies. The best parts of the movie are the beginning and end, the middle just leaves me asking myself "what?" It is almost a completely different movie, but all of the Shatner scenes are great!
Beam up for this ENTERPRISE.......2007-01-20
William Shatner has done the ultimate parody of himself in Free Enterprise. The script takes satire to the max as Shatner plays an actor name William Shatner. He also sends up Star Trek and SF conventions
Pre Will & Grace Eric McCormick and Rafer Weigel play two best friends who look up to Shatner as a mentor...and they find he is a real person
For those fans of the Star Trek genre, this is almost as funny as Clerks
go get this one!
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Star Trek Fans must have.......2007-01-16
For those who enjoyed the lighter side of William Shatner, you will not be disappointed. This movie exemplifies the manner in which a thirty-something can still remain a child at heart.
Great fun!
Well, this is a lot better than T.J. Hooker..........2006-11-26
In 1987, in that infamous Saturday Night Live skit, William Shatner shocked his STAR TREK fans by admonishing them to "get a life" and to "move out of (their) mother's basement." In the very funny FREE ENTERPRISE, the undermining of Captain Kirk's mythic status continues and the re-invention of William Shatner begins. The back story to FREE ENTERPRISE was that William Shatner, initially, adamantly refused to take part in the film because he found his role, as originally written, to be too embarassingly iconic. He then collaborated with the movie makers, Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, to make over the role of "Bill Shatner" and add in more human foibles to the character. The resulting end product will leave you in stitches.
FREE ENTERPRISE follows the travails of two Los Angeles Star Trek-obsessed filmmakers: the self-contained, egotistical but going-nowhere-in-his-career Mark (Eric McCormack), whose 30th birthday is imminent, and his best friend, the irresponsible womanizer and slacker Robert (Rafer Weigel), who, in 6 months, will turn 30 himself. Mark had just blown a sales pitch (of his film opus, called BRADY KILLER) and Robert had just been dumped by his gal and accused of lacking commitment. Mark and Robert venture to a bookstore and bump into their longtime idol, Captain Kirk...I mean, William Shatner.... Initially put off by the duo's attentions, Shatner is soon imbibing with them in a bar and regaling them with his projected, mostly one-man show - a 6 hour long, musical play, titled WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE & WILLIAM SHATNER PRESENT: JULIUS CAESAR. Mark and Robert, thru the course of the film, discover that their hero is in fact a somewhat pathetic, aging fella who may be innately likable and may be down with the homies but still is someone who feels the pangs of self-doubt, especially when around women. As Robert wails to Mark, "The man that we just met is not the man who invented the Corbomite Maneuver or the man who almost died defeating the Doomsday Machine!" Most of the film, of course, chronicles Robert and Mark's attempts to find meaning in their lives as they deal with love, friendship, job fulfillment, and the horrors of turning 30. "Bill" Shatner sporadically pops in and out and, on occasion, even imparts wisdom when not falling down drunk or prattling about his musical play. It all culminates, of course, with Shatner's lively performance of "No Tears for Caesar."
I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to see this movie. This is a perfect complement for the tongue in cheek documentaries TREKKIES & TREKKIES 2. FREE ENTERPRISE is an independent film that reeks of irreverence and hipness. It delights in wallowing in in-joke pop cultural riffs, to which your inner geek will rejoice. Personally, I got a kick out of the various sci-fi film references (did you know 1982 was the best year ever for sci-fi films?). And, along the way, this flick also taught me the proper usage of the adjective "Wagnerian." Needless to say, STAR TREK references remain resolute in their frequency and consistency. There certainly isn't a shortage of witty, clever throw-away lines, some of which admittedly necessitates a disturbingly steep knowledge of nerdy pop culture trivia. I love how Mark and Robert, two intelligent, well-educated dudes, are still so influenced by their childhood obsessions. Captain Kirk's iconic hold is so strong that when Mark attempts to fix his best friend's romantic woes, he adapts a Kirk monologue to convince Robert's erstwhile girlfriend.
Rafer Weigel and Audie England are perfectly fine as Robert and his geek goddess soulmate Claire, while Eric McCormack is excellent as the acerbic know-it-all who actually suffers from well-camouflaged insecurities. But it is William Shatner, gleefully satirizing himself, who shines the brightest. Shatner channels his inner ham and somehow triumphs with a strong and surprisingly touching performance. With his fearless, full-on commitment to the role, I don't doubt that he won back many of the Trekker fans he alienated way back in SNL.
The special features highlights for me are: the Film Commentary by Writer/Editor/Director Robert Meyer Burnett and Writer/Producer Mark A. Altman; the 14 deleted scenes, running over 30 minutes; "Ebionics" - a glossary of FREE ENTERPRISE terms aimed to help non-pop culture folks make sense of the otherwise indecipherable dialogue; "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" - the making of FREE ENTERPRISE; Screen Tests of Audie England, Mark's "midget" date, the sexy blonde in the car, and the green-painted girl; and, naturally, the "No Tears For Caesar" Spoken/Rap Video.
This was a project of love by Robert Meyer Burnett and Mark A. Altman, the writers of the film. These two, who also direct and produce this indie, are, not too shockingly, the basis for the fictional Robert and Mark, and, throughout the movie, their love of STAR TREK and science fiction shines thru. Somewhat masked behind the cool premise, the wit, and the hilarity is that FREE ENTERPRISE is, at the core, a study in Gen X dysfunctionality, as well as a sensitive and thoughtful depiction of two friends striving to find purpose while eking out a living in the outer peripheries of Hollywood. This is a very, very good movie, which served to lengthen Shatner's career and make him fairly relevant again. Good going, Captain Kirk. But I wish we would've met Mark's phone orgasm girl.
The Star Trek generation comes of age.......2006-09-25
Other reviews note Shatner's hilarious performance, which it is - but the movie also has serious messages about coming of age, the importance of friends, and getting into an adult relationship. The commentaries are well done and interesting.
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Classic Economics Films DVD: 1940s 1950s United States (US) Economy, Economies, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics And Money & Wealth Management
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- Table Of Contents: (1) Round and Round (1939) - 6 Minutes (2) Capitalism (1948) - 9 Minutes
- (3) Working Dollars (1957) - 11 Minutes (4) Understanding The Dollar (1953) - 10 Minutes
- (5) America's Distribution of Wealth (1955) - 12 Minutes (6) Look at Capitalism, A (1955) - 13 Minutes
- (7) The Secret of American Production (1955) - 12 Minutes (8) Why Kill the Goose: The Profit System (1955) - 11 Minutes
- (9) Story of Enterprise (1955) - 12 Minutes
ASIN: B000T2B5Q2 |
Product Description
Has the economy changed over the past 70 years? Why yes! Have economic principles changed over the past 70 years? Well, not so much. Watch this special DVD compilation of vintage economic films and discover the answer for yourself. This DVD makes a great reference, teaching tool or collectors item. The classic economic animation films are a must-have! This DVD includes nine digitized films from 1939-1957. Table Of Contents: (1) Round and Round (1939) - This movie is interesting, quirky, fun to watch and easy to understand. It explains the basics of capitalism and business theory using animated puppets in a dramatized factory setting 6 Minutes (2) Capitalism (1948) - In this movie, capitalism is discussed by a group of high school students doing a radio talk show 9 Minutes (3) Working Dollars (1957) - This Stock Exchange animated classic explains the basics of how the stock exchange works 11 Minutes (4) Understanding The Dollar (1953) - This is a nice simple film showing what the dollar is, how it works, what it does, what factors affect it and how it can affect peoples wages and incomes 10 Minutes (5) America's Distribution of Wealth (1955) - This film shows how America's wealth is distributed among its citizens 12 Minutes (6) Look at Capitalism, A (1955) - The economic basics of capitalism are covered in this lecture by Professor Clifton L. Ganus 13 Minutes (7) The Secret of American Production (1955) - A lecture in which free enterprise is touted as the reason for America's economic success 12 Minutes (8) Why Kill the Goose: The Profit System (1955) - This is a lecture that explains how profits lead to research and design, which in turn leads to increased productivity, which in turn leads to high productivity, which in turns yields higher profits. Confused yet? 11 Minutes (9) Story of Enterprise (1955) - A growing frozen custard business is used as an example of the mechanisms of capitalism 12 Minutes
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