Lum & Abner: Two Weeks to Live

Starring:Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker, Irving Bacon, Herbert Rawlinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Rosemary La Planche, Danny Duncan, Tim Ryan, Frank Mills, Hank Mann, Luis Alberni, Roger Neury, Charles Middleton, Jim Farley, Tiny Jones, Jack Carr, Billy Bletcher, Jack Gardner (II)
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

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Wendy Becomes a Warrior!
Brenda Song rocks
One of the best from disney channel
From future homecoming queen to Kung Fu teen.
WENDY WU GO

Wendy Wu - Homecoming Warrior
Starring: Brenda Song , Shin Koyamada , Susan Chuang , Justin Chon , and Michael David Cheng
Director: John Laing (II)
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ASIN: B000H5V8CW
Release Date: 2006-10-24

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To her friends, Wendy Wu (Brenda Song) is an average teenager with an almost perfect life and a dream of becoming homecoming queen. Chinese legend, on the other hand, declares that Wendy is first and foremost the reincarnation of a powerful woman warrior from the Wei Dynasty who is destined to fight the newly-awakened, evil Yan Lo. When Shen (Shin Koyamada), a most untraditional Buddhist monk, arrives in Fair Springs, California to begin training Wendy in the art of Kung Fu, Wendy is skeptical and uncooperative until a series of strange events involving her family, friends, and teachers force her to consider her priorities from a whole new perspective. Some serious Kung Fu training whips Wendy's body into shape, but it is her state and strength of mind that will ultimately determine her path and the destiny of the larger world. Disney star Brenda Song (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) shows true martial arts prowess in this action-packed film as does Shin Koyamada (Constellation). Ashley Tisdale (High School Musical) also plays a supporting role. Bonus features include an exclusive alternate ending, a look at the intensive martial arts training that predated the film, a cast connections segment that is basically a television biography of Brenda Song, and an episode of The Suite Life of Zach and Cody in which London (Brenda Song) is disastrously enrolled in parochial school and Zach and Cody learn a lesson about spying. (Ages 7 and older) --Tami Horiuchi

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Wendy Wu has only one thing on her mind: winning the crown as this year's homecoming queen. But the arrival of a mysterious young Chinese monk named Shen flips her whole world upside down. As if juggling homework, a hottie boyfriend, and fierce competition for homecoming queen isn't enough, now she's got to seriously train her mind, body, and spirit in all things Kung Fu! Will Wendy discover her own inner warrior and learn what's really important in life? (Big surprise: It's not all about shopping.) Awesome action-adventure and Kung Fu fun is packed into WENDY WU: HOMECOMING WARRIOR, starring Brenda Song (THE SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY). And only this Kickin' Edition DVD has the never-before-seen extended ending, a totally cool behind-the-scenes featurette, and more!

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Wendy Becomes a Warrior!.......2007-06-18

It turns out it was sort of not like I had expected. I mean, Wendy never really fought another girl, but a male villian in a girl's body! Still, this movie is quite good.

This movie's about a popular teen who starts to learn that she's a Yin warrior and must train her martial arts skills to defeat a non-mythical creature, Yan-Lo. Yan-Lo keeps going from body to body, searching for this soon-to-be warrior!

So, I give this movie 4 stars. It's probably not the best Disney Channel movie, (like "Read it and Weep,") but let's see how you'll like it!

Brenda Song rocks.......2007-03-28

For those who laugh with London, the heiress to the Tipton Hotel at Zack and Cody, this DVD will be a surprise. The story reveals another facet of the actress. Cute, not boring at all. I saw it with my nine-year-old girl.

One of the best from disney channel.......2007-02-07

brenda song is one of my favorite actor's from disney channel.If you love Brenda song or love a good kung fu movie,this is for you

From future homecoming queen to Kung Fu teen........2007-01-14

Stars Brenda Song & Shin Koyamada did a tremendous job with this movie. Its full of action, good dialogue, and comedic moments. Shin does an extraodinary job like he did in The Last Samurai. Since I'm Asian, I really enjoy the Asian cultural things like the Terracota warriors, Buddhist monks, and Kung fu, even though I'm Japanese. Big fan of Koyamada-san. And its a story of true sacrifice. So, people with the bad reviews, just have fun, geez.

WENDY WU GO.......2007-01-07

i love wendy wu. its fun and full will action.This is because wendy wu does high kiscks.

ps: vote for wendy wu!!!

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wonderfully special and brave still
Wha? huh? oh.
Sky's Gone Out
odd film, not what i expected
Delicious, delicious

Liquid Sky
Starring: Anne Carlisle , Paula E. Sheppard , Susan Doukas , Otto von Wernherr , and Bob Brady
Director: Slava Tsukerman
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ASIN: 6305660328
Release Date: 2000-02-15

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This 1983 science fiction oddity, set in the subterranean world of heroin addicts, performance artists, and androgynous models in New York's East Village, became a staple of the midnight movie circuit and college campus film societies. A tiny UFO lands on the roof of a grungy penthouse apartment inhabited by androgynous model Anne Carlisle and her drug-dealing lover Paula E. Sheppard (the former child star of Alice, Sweet Alice). As explained with deadpan gravity by hilariously naive alien hunter Otto Von Wernherr, the UFOs congregate in areas of intense heroin concentration and feed off the highs of addicts. This alien has found a better high: orgasms. Russian émigré Slava Tsukerman's punk sci-fi feature takes the alien in alienation seriously, charting the mental disintegration of Carlisle as every sexual partner dies in climax and she turns herself into a heroine-chic angel of death. Easily the strangest to come out of the New York indie explosion of the early '80s, this low budget classic is talky and overlong at almost two hours, but remains an imaginative use of bargain-basement effects (heat aura photography, stop motion animation) for a tale of a most unusual alien encounter. Tsukerman co-composed the minimalist electronic score (in the Laurie Anderson vein). Carlisle, who cowrote the film, also appears as a surly gay male model. --Sean Axmaker

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wonderfully special and brave still.......2007-04-06

this film is gripping and stunning. the director made some very brave choices and manages with the few effects and little finance he had to create an intense experience. in the end it's all up to one's fantasy and imagination and not the budget!!

Wha? huh? oh........2007-03-28

Other reviews for this movie led me to believe that it was going to be something amazing, something I have never seen before, something that I would either love or hate. It was none of these things. It was weird, that's for sure, but it was hardly interesting. The soundtrack alone was enough to make me want to watch the movie muted. But then all I would have been left with would have been the visuals, and I couldn't do that to myself. The lens tricks were disorienting and the color scheme was simply offensive, though I suppose I understand what they were trying to do with the wacky makeup. If I had to pick something that WAS interesting about this movie, it would be the scene in which the two characters, one male, one female, but both played by the same actress, square off in a sexually charged argument before the female character disapears below frame and makes the male character "die" in the Victorian and literal sense of the word. But this is only interesting because it's the same actress playing both parts. Otherwise, it would have been just more of the same psuedo-philosophical nonsense about what is beauty, what is fame, what is sex, blah, blah, blah...

The one guy does look a lot like Norm McDonald, though. That was kinda funny. Particularly when he's feining for more heroin.

Sky's Gone Out.......2007-03-21

Brilliant C movie at it's finest! Manhattan in the days of the New Romantic era, what could be more depressing? Death by orgasm controlled by alien life form, how insane is that? The fashion is the best with the perfect musical score to go with it. Margaret and Jimmy, what a perfect couple, yet they're the same person!

odd film, not what i expected.......2007-01-14

saw this in 1991 and thought it was a cool flick. couldn't remember much about it (inebriated) so bought it the other day to watch again. i made it thru the first 20-30 minutes before turning it off. the person from whom i bought it packaged it and sent it out to me immediately. it was just an artsy, fartsy, surrealistic, sci-fi movie.

Delicious, delicious.......2006-12-11

Sex, drugs, androgyny, fashion, nihilism, and aliens from outer space--a post-modern riff on the verb "to f*ck," and a postcard from the counter-culture on what they did while Reagan was president. In 1983 it all made sense.

Margaret's face-painting monologue, delivered in deadpan--"I'm from Connecticut. Pilgrim stock"--is the saddest, most profound depiction of loneliness and alienation, of rejecting roles you were expected to play and ending up with nothing except a mysterious ability to kill people with your vagina.

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Cemetery High
Starring: Debi Thibeault , Karen Nielsen (II) , Lisa Schmidt , Simone , and Ruth Collins
Director: Gorman Bechard
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Great little 'noir' film in spite of the pandering ...
Diane Lane
Wincott steals show ; Aspect Ratio Warning

Gunshy
Starring: Michael Byrne , Natalie Canerday , Badja Djola , John Fleck , and Diane Lane
Director: Jeff Celentano
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ASIN: 6305388059
Release Date: 1999-06-01

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Defective DVD.......2006-07-07

I've tried to get this dvd twice and the dvd was defective both times.

Damaged DVD.......2006-03-09

After attempting to order this four times and each time receiving a defective DVD, I stopped trying to purchase this item.

Great little 'noir' film in spite of the pandering ..........2005-06-24

OK first a 'neg' comment .... The tile of this film is so so wrong .... the cover blurb on the cover of a movie about 'Cold Blooded Killers' is wrong and even the picture of the two male leads holding guns is wrong too .... Whats with the gun thing here ... very little gunplay in this movie .. most of it was physical violence on torture .... So probably the producers tried to make this film seem like a ripoff of those 'Tarantino' Cold Blooded killer movies ....

This is a character study movie of a collector for the 'Irish' mob in Atlantic city befriending a down and out writer who seems to have lost his 'edginess' .....

Irrespective of the cold heartedness of the collector, the movie paints the Irish mob boss as so mean and vicious that we start to root for our hero. Seeing him walk into stores or restaurants and break legs of the people who have failed to pay almost becomes fun ....

Great great little film

Diane Lane.......2005-06-15

Diane Lane is either the character in real life or has beautiful, understated acting skills. Her performance is worlds away from acting, it is real life character. I've seen her in other films but this is truth. I enjoy subtlety and understement, she made the character sweet, sexy, accessible, and hot, the gitl accross the street from the girl next door. I am impressed.

Wincott steals show ; Aspect Ratio Warning.......2005-06-12

Wincott was great in Alien Resurrection, but had to be killed off early so Sigourney Weaver could be the strong lead. He rocks in Gunshy, while Peterson is terrible and Lane has virtually nothing to work with in this poorly written script. There are huge, gaping holes in the plot, which was apparently written for TV -- or should have been. This is a movie that survived bad dialog on the basis of reasonably good direction, quite good photography & editing, and excellent acting by the key character, Wincott. In the end, he was the only one you cared about. The DVD was cheaply made using the VHS master, thus it is merely 4:3, not widescreen, a major disappointment.

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He-he-hello!
Awesome representation!
This is a great movie!
Perfect Parker Posey!
Beleive in me!

Party Girl
Starring: Parker Posey , Anthony DeSando , Guillermo Díaz , Donna Mitchell , and Liev Schreiber
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
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ASIN: B00009AVA6
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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"Queen of the Indies" Parker Posey (Dazed and Confused, Waiting for Guffman, The Daytrippers) shines in this lightweight comedy about a romance between a floundering downtown party girl and a falafel vendor set in Manhattan's trendy loft and club scene. Posey is utterly charming as Mary, the 23-year-old whose talents are pretty much limited to "partying, flirting, making stuff up." Her penchant for partying gets her evicted from her apartment, whereupon--unable to pay her fine or decide what she wants to do with her life--she receives financial and career help from her godmother, who gets her a job in the New York Public Library system. Does the Dewey decimal system hold the key to Mary's future? Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer went on to direct Madeline (1998). --Jim Emerson

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He-he-hello!.......2007-07-04

This movie is wonderful. I think it was underrated, and they should put it out on dvd. Anyway I think this is one of Parker Posey's best works, great performance. She plays a sassy but a little bit clueless (initially) club kid/party girl type who hangs out with the arty, party New York scene. This movie really captures the art scene in the city in the 1990's. Back when rent was high but probably still affordable and jobs were kinda hard to come by for those in the arts if they preferred more to party than practice the arts. The whole cast has chemistry, Parker acts so natural with her fashionable best friend and her dj roomate. Her chracter falls for a Lebanese teacher-turned-falafel vendor, and the ensuing romance is so comic and endearing. And I, like almost everyone else, agree that the scene with Natasha is priceless and should be rewound again and again for its comic genius. Parker's character does find her way in the end, when she wakes up and realises she needs to go beyond just partying. I loved the dance/house soundtrack flowing throughout and all the bit characters which showed up in the movie throughout. Even down to the rainbow-colored stairs leading up to Parker's apartment, and the mystery of "Carl". This movie is a quiet gem.

Awesome representation!.......2007-02-27

One of Parker Posey's funniest performances. It has a great supporting cast and a fun plot. Must see for anyone who likes to party, but can also appreciate other things like....the Dewey Decimal System. :)

This is a great movie!.......2007-01-18

I love everything about this movie. I watched it several times and never got tired of it. Each time I watched this movie I saw something I had missed from the very first time watching it. The acting is wonderful, the music is great. The plot is interesting, drew me right in. It should have got an Oscar, and several best actor awards.

Perfect Parker Posey!.......2006-07-18

This film is a delightful, light hearted look at both sides of where the "club kid" rave scene blends with the New York art, music and performance art worlds (with a cameo by the omnipresent Miss Bunny). This is "Torch Song Trilogy" for the perky-post-teen girls. "That Girl" for our disaffected, affected millenium times.
The dialogue is fast and funny, and Parker Posey's costumer deserves - if not an academy award, at least - a stadium "wave" of kudos.
Of course, this film rests on the very stylish platform heels of Miss Posey, and she is perfectly cast. Like a lot of her acting work, it may not be very deep, it is often self-referential and, well, posey... but it all WORKS. She is an entertainer, and this film entertains, she carries it on her shoulders like a faux leopard wrap, and never lets it drop to the floor.
Mary is a superficial party fashionista who isn't above stealing desinger clothing from a friend's closet or making out with someone else's boyfriend. On a deeper level, this is a story of a girl and her friends who are care-less in every sense of the word, including about other people; and the process of learning that caring is neccessary to life.
The script is beautifully crafted, witty, and the only performance that disappoints is the Aunt, in a role that was much too one-dimensional and heavy handed; a more nuanced performance from her, would have deepened the relationship between the two... but... hey... this is comedy. The best performance is by the fallafel selling boyfriend. We should all be so lucky.
I rate this as a 4 because it isn't a great moment of film history, it is not a classic, and it is not great art (all of which get deeper and richer on re-viewing). But it has everything an entertaining film needs, and is worth viewing several times for the clothes alone!

Beleive in me!.......2006-05-02

Parker Posey is hott. This movie is hott. There is a lovable quality about the film so basically its a love or hate expierence. If you enjoy the rave scene or something similar about it I think you should check this movie out. There are maney quotable lines and scenes from the movie as you can tell from other reviews, This movie is just pure entertainment. Hi everyone Im Renee and IM A GODAM ALCOHOLIC!

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Lum and Abner Feature #1 review

Lum & Abner Double Feature #1 (B&W)
Starring: Lum & Abner Double Feature
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ASIN: B00029BNHI
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Product Description

The longtime AM radio stars make their big-screen debuts as the beloved Arkansas shopkeepers host a fundraiser, play matchmaker and even try on gumshoes in Dreaming Out Loud (1940/81 min.) and The Bashful Bachelor (1942/78 min.).

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Lum and Abner Feature #1 review.......2005-09-26

I found this and the Feature #2 companion DVD a reak kick in the old Nostalgia keister. I saw these movies in the theatre when they were first released. That gives you an idea of how old I am. The two movies on #1 were a little scratchy but considering how old they are and what they may have looked like before restoring them, I was very pleased. I have had worse copies of old movies. I can't say if the humor would hold up to most of the last two generations, but for any of us oldtimers, they are worth the price. The same with feature #2.

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Starring: Lum & Abner Double Feature #2
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ASIN: B0007X9P60
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Product Description

The boys try to raise money to run a railroad in Two Weeks to Live (76 min.), and accident-prone Abner invents synthetic rubber but suffers amnesia when he and Lum meet with government officials in So This Is Washington (64 min.). 1943/b&w/NR.

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(...)
Wicked Fun!!
loving puts your heart at risk

Praise
Starring: Peter Fenton (II) , Sacha Horler , Marta Dusseldorp , Ray Bull , and Joel Edgerton
Director: John Curran (II)
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
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ASIN: B00005KCB8
Release Date: 2003-07-08

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(...).......2006-03-05

This film, together with "Alexandra's Project", has got to be the lamest excuse for promoting porn, under the banner of so-called art, that I have ever seen. This film has absolutely no substance, and the sex scenes are as erotic as a dog humping a pillow.
This film has brought shame rather than praise to the Australian Film Industry.

Wicked Fun!!.......2004-01-28

Frankly this movie should have been rated triple X. There is a ton of sex in this film and when there isn't sex, people are talking about it. But that's not what made the film interesting. The lead characters Gordon and Cynthia are lovers with the setting in an Australian squat. They're a mismatched couple to the T. Gordon is shy and has to be told what to do at every moment. He regrets this when he hooks up with Cynthia, a young waitress who has to have sex or she feels she's going to die. The two begin on a turbulent realionship because their feelings about intercourse couldn't be more different. Gordon doesn't enjoy sex that much. Cynthia loves it and has to have it every second. So after weeks of Gordon giving into her constant sexual requests, Cynthia turns up pregnant. They decide to have an abortion. Gordon is happy because this means he gets four weeks off. But the moment Cynthia is allowed to have sex again, she's on Gordon faster than a fly is on a wall. It's clear that Cynthia has some deep issues to deal with. She thinks sex is love. She feels Gordon only loves her when he's intimate with her. Gordon figures out that he doesn't really love Cynthia at all. She's physically draining and mentally dangerous to his health. Cynthia leaves Melbourne never to see Gordon again. And of course he misses her immediately after she leaves.

Great acting. Great realization. Realistic dialogue.
Word of warning: this film is not for anyone who isn't comfortable with people talking graphically about sex. This film takes dirty talk to another level and it can only be respected if you can take it. If you subtract all the sex, it's a very touching love story. I admit after the fifth sex scene I wanted the characters to surpass that but they never did. If you see the movie you'll understand how two lonely people use sex to control one another. A riveting film. Not for the kiddies.

loving puts your heart at risk.......2001-11-01

Apart from featuring constant screen cigarette smoking, this Australian film directed by John Curran defies expectations. Set in a Brisbane boarding house it presents Peter Fenton as an asthmatic who begins a romance with eczema sufferer Sacha Horler. Curran's formal style lessens the grunginess of the locale, though at times he overdoes the soundtrack with aural effects, so we can concentrate on the phenonema of the relationship. What is remarkable about the treatment is that neither of the characters are shown to be losers, in spite of their physical challenges. Rather there is much emphasis on flesh, in particular Horler's physical insatiablity and the demand it makes on Fenton. In response to Horler's comment that she thinks herself "hideous", Curran cuts to a crowd's apparent look of disapproval which is later revealed to be their fear of being group photographed.
In spite of the suggestion that Horler is a monstrous child/woman, the actor invests her with a vulnerability that is very appealing. And Fenton's tenderness is also pleasing.
The film suffers without Horler, and Curran doesn't know how to end, which may be the fault of the source novel by Andrew McGahan. Depicting residents of a boarding house as men without dreams or levity is perhaps too easy, but at least we get to see a physical transformation. Curran repeats one set-up from a longer shot, which predetermines the ending, and provides an amusing if inexplicable parallel between the boarding house and a hospital ward after hours.

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Not the right message for a kid
Far from perfect
Couldn't be more predictable if it tried.
memories
A Great Family Film!

Perfect Game
Starring: Edward Asner , Patrick Duffy , Cameron Finley , Tracy Nelson , and Drake Bell
Director: Dan Guntzelman
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ASIN: B000089797
Release Date: 2003-05-06

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When a championship-bound coach (Patrick Duffy) adds some notoriously untalented kids to his team on a bet, the players view it as their chance to learn from the master. But the scheming coach has other plans, which include not letting them play. When young Kanin and friends uncover the plot and the coach is dismissed, the team disintegrates--or does it? With the help of Kanin's determined mom (Tracy Nelson) and a past-his-prime coach (a blustery Ed Asner), the multiracial, coed team pulls it together enough to make it to the playoffs, where they face... you guessed it, Duffy and his new team. The latest in a long line of underdog kids sports movies, which started with The Bad New Bears, this 96-minute film from Disney TV has neither the wit nor the grit of its inspiration, but it serves as reasonable family entertainment. Baseball fans will have to forgive its casual approach to the rules of the game, however. (Ages 5 and older) --Kimberly Heinrichs

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Premiering on video, PERFECT GAME. In the spirit of THE MIGHTY DUCKS, PERFECT GAME is a humorous and touching story that celebrates the determined believer in all of us. Eleven-year-old Kanin has one dream -- to be the world's best baseball player, or at least not to be the one always picked last. Things look up when coach Bobby Geiser (Patrick Duffy) surprisingly picks him to be on his Little League team. But Kanin soon discovers that Bobby thinks he's one of the worst players and is using him as part of a bet. Crushed but confident in their abilities, Kanin and some of the other "Little League losers" fire Bobby and rally around Kanin's mom (Tracy Nelson) and a retired high school coach (Ed Asner). While setting their sights on the championship, they learn the true meaning of sportsmanship and teamwork, and soon, feel like the champions they are. Overflowing with fun and inspiration, PERFECT GAME will delight kids of all ages and leave you cheering for more!

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Not the right message for a kid.......2005-06-27

Watched this movie with my seven year old son. It exposed him to all sorts of themes that I just didn't want him to see. For a young baseball player, the movie introduces the concept of "loser" and just won't let go of it. Irritating as a parent. I spent the movie talking him thru dialogue just to keep him positively directly. Avoid this movie if you have a young kid just learning baseball. There's plenty of fun positively directed baseball films out there.

Far from perfect.......2004-04-08

Not only is this movie unoriginal and superficial at its very core, but also its logic is flawed and it is not really a good kids movie.

There are far too many prototypes: the not-so good team coached by a washed-up ex-minor league player, the "evil" coach who has won a string of championships that wants to "rule" the baseball league with another title, the "heart-broken" kid who wants to win for Dad, the mom who wants the best for her little boy, the rise and fall of the "lovable loser" type team, etc. It seems to all be a bunch of one-dimensional and predictable characters that begin to work each and every baseball cliché.

I agree with the reviewer, Brett, who mentioned the flawed logic of this movie. It's hard to exactly know what the message of this movie is. Do the parents want their team to win? Do they want their kids to practice, not to practice? Why do they want them to quit a game that is a passion just because some coach tells them they aren't good enough? The naivety of this movie excels all baseball movies I've seen. Couldn't they put a little more thought into some of these characters?

The slight positive to this movie were the few chuckles that were there. Ed Asner does a decent job as the ex-minor league player turned coach, and has a few good lines:
"Baseball is spelled F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-L-E" ..

"Can you spell irritating, kid?"

However, overall, the lines and the action aren't fun, but rather superficial, and it's ending left me, well, confused (kind of like they just said, "Let's stop the movie right here."). A movie that could have been much more, but failed miserably.

Even if it is just suppose to be a fun movie, Perfect Game doesn't even come across as a true kids movie. I would suggest that if you want a kid's movie with a little more spirit, rent "The Rookie" instead. If you are wanting a good baseball movie period, see "The Natural" or "Field of Dreams."

Couldn't be more predictable if it tried........2003-12-01

Would it have killed the makers of this movie to even attempt to do something worthwhile? This is a kids' baseball movie that has been done too many times already.

The setup: The "evil" coach Bobby Geiser (Patrick Duffy) has won eight consecutive local Little League Championships and all the other coaches are jealous of him. In order to try and even the playing field, Geiser agrees to allow a lot of kids who aren't very good at baseball to be on his team. Our hero, 10 year old Kanin, is going to be on Coach Geiser's team this year. So what's the problem? To be honest, I'm really not sure. The kids' parents flip out when they find out that the coach has been holding extra practices for his good players in order to make sure they stay sharp.

This is where the movie nosedives even further. The parents decide to get rid of the coach and all of the good players on their team. Then they tell their kids that they should just cancel the rest of their season and not even play anymore. It's twisted logic which I can't understand. Why make your kids stop playing a sport they love simply because the coach was holding extra practices? Just goes to show you how parents are ruining youth sports programs these days...even in the movies!

Anyway, I won't spoil how things turn out but I need to get one more gripe off of my chest. In several scenes, the baseball used during the games is not real. It is an extremely poor computer special effect. Has the film industry sunk so low that they can't have a baseball movie using a real baseball? Why use CGI when you don't even have to? This movie has no soul.

memories.......2000-12-12

reminiscent of the Kenny Roger's hit "The Greatest". Superb acting by young Cameron Finley (Kanin) as he struggles to become a great ball player like his dad. A movie that will surely bring back Little League memories, whether as a player, parent of coach. Great family film for young and old alike.

A Great Family Film!.......2000-04-21

There are all too few movies around that we can take the kids to. And many of them are tough for adults to sit through. Thankfully, this one is a gem. Ed Asner is charming as always and Patrick Duffy makes a great bad guy. But the kids are the stars of this story of a young boy who just wants to be one of the team. Don't miss this one. It'll make a great addtion to the kids' video library.

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Delightful "Lum and Abner" movie

Lum & Abner: Two Weeks to Live
Starring: Chester Lauck , Norris Goff , Franklin Pangborn , Kay Linaker , and Irving Bacon
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B00011D1JU
Release Date: 2004-01-27

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Delightful "Lum and Abner" movie.......2004-12-21

Two Weeks to Live is a delightful Lum and Abner romp, one of the seven full length movies that they made in the 1940s. This one takes them to Chicago when Abner inherits a railroad. Things go awry in dizzying fashion after that. The print of this Alpha video is decent (perhaps not as good as the print for The Bashful Batchelor, but better than Dreaming Out Loud), and the price is right. Fans of cornpone humor shouldn't hesitate.

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