Home Alone

Starring:Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara, Angela Goethals, Devin Ratray, Gerry Bamman, Hillary Wolf, John Candy, Larry Hankin, Michael C. Maronna, Kristin Minter, Daiana Campeanu, Jedidiah Cohen, Kieran Culkin, Senta Moses, Anna Slotky, Terrie Snell
Director: Chris Columbus
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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You may be surprised to discover that the director of the Lethal Weapon movies and scary horror flick The Omen, Richard Donner, also produced and directed this classic children's adventure (which, by the way, was written by Donner's screen-wizard friend Steven Spielberg). Then again you may not. The Goonies, like Donner's other movies, is the same story of good versus evil. It has its share of bad guys (the Fratelli brothers and their villainous mother), reluctant-hero good guys (the Walsh bothers and their gang of friends), and lots of corny one-liners. Like in an old-fashioned Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew plot, the Goonies need to solve a problem: a corrupt corporate developer has bought out their neighborhood and plans to flatten all their homes. Luckily, the beloved gang stumbles on a treasure map. In the hopes of finding the treasure to buy back their houses, the Goonies embark on their quest through underground passages, aboard pirate ships, and behind waterfalls. This swashbuckling and rollicking ride was also a great breeding ground for a couple of child actors who went on to enjoy numerous successes in adulthood: Sean Astin (Rudy, Encino Man) and Martha Plimpton (Pecker, 200 Cigarettes). --Samantha Allen Storey

Description

Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Music Video:Cyndi Lauper "Goonies R Good Enough II"
Outtakes
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Why was there never a sequel?.......2007-07-03

This movie was little more than your typical 80's "Teen angst" movie, starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and (we hope) a sober and drug free Corey Feldman. A search for pirate treasure, a trio of bad guys who keep their deformed brother locked in a basement and an Indiana Jones-like trek through tunnels, caves and booby traps takes this from a campy 80's kid flick to an enjoyable Richard Donner film.

I just watched it again this past weekend with my 9 year old. He sat wide-eyed at the tense parts, laughed his toosh off at the funny parts and raised a freaked out brow at the first sighting of Sloth...

And when it was all over, he asked me a very simple question... "When's part two coming out?"

I didn't know what to tell him. After 20 years, if they haven't made one by now, they're not likely to make one. "Chunk" at 35 just wouldn't be as funny.

goonies.......2007-06-10

saw this movie .went it came out was in pressed than as iam now it a classic

Hey You Guys!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-06-01

I grew up with this movie. Its one of my all time favorites and it's a classic.
Its about a group of kids who find a treasure map and go looking for the treasure. Pretty simple but throw in the booby traps, 3 wanted killers, a deformed giant and you still arent even coming close to describing this hit.
All I can say is its a must have for any movie library. I bought a copy for my 5 year old son (warning there is a bit of cursing but hey, I grew up with it so can he) He loves it and watches it over and over again. Thankfully its one of those movies that I could never get sick of so I havent gone crazy from seeing it yet.

A Definite Must-Have DVD.......2007-05-26

I was 21 years old and in college when this movie came out and I liked it! At almost 43, I still love the movie and have it in my DVD collection. There are many good scenes in the movie, such as when Chunk is watching the car chase and smashes his drink against the window and says, "AW #$%&!" I also like the contraption that Data uses to get over to Mikey's house and goes thru the front screen door. The best part of the movie.. The end where they save their town from the developers! You will have to watch the movie to find out how the Goonies save their town. :)

To The Dumbass From Wisconsin With His avg. Rating.......2007-05-23

Hey stupid, first of all dont be mad because u didnt get to see this movie when you were a kid! This movie is nothin less than a 5 star! Be real son your how old in 2007 and you just seen this movie? IT WAS MADE IN 1985 relax..anyways...Best movie ever made..well that and karate kid 1.

The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition)

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Excellant
First they blew into town, then they BLEW it up!
APPLE DUMPLING GANG
Another Great Walt Disney Picture
When will the movies be on one DVD?

The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition)
Starring: Tim Conway , Don Knotts , Harry Morgan , John McGiver , and Bill Bixby
Director: Norman Tokar , and Jack Kinney
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ASIN: B00009YXAV
Release Date: 2003-09-02

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Bill Bixby plays a 19th-century gambler who inherits responsibility for three orphans, but the kids in turn have something of value: a huge gold nugget. This Disney film from 1975 is an enjoyable potboiler with its sentimentality under control and the accent on laughs, most of which are provided, not unexpectedly, by Tim Conway and Don Knotts as thieves who want to get their hands on the treasure. An easy, safe film for children. You can't go wrong with this. --Tom Keogh

Description

Head for cover! Don Knotts and Tim Conway are Wild West outlaws who can't hit the broad side of a barn -- but never miss when it comes to rounding up laughs! The hilarity begins when a roving bachelor (Bill Bixby) inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the youngsters stumble upon a huge golden nugget, they must fend off the greedy townspeople. So the kids join forces with the bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Little do they know a surly gang of sharpshooters plans to beat them to the draw! If you're aiming for fun, saddle up and head out with THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG!

Customer Reviews:

Excellant.......2007-05-07

If you are looking for a clean funny movie without sex, violence, and cursing this is the right movie. It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Very family orient and I recommend it to anyone.

First they blew into town, then they BLEW it up!.......2007-03-22

Excellent family comedy! Don Knotts & Tim Conway are at their best!
Three orphaned siblings are forced upon confirmed bachelor Russel Donovan(Bixby) in a 19nth century boom town of Quake City, California. After an earthquake shakes the area, the children find a large gold nugget worth tens of thousands of dollars. But their newfound wealth is causing more problems than it's solving, so they decide to "give" the gold to 2 bumbling outlaws, Theodore & Amos (Knotts&Conway). But the only way they can get the gold is to steal it from the bank vault where it's being held for safekeeping.
Quotes:
(Amos makes Theodore angry)
Theodore: You couldn't see through a barbed wire fence!
Amos: Theodore?
Theodore: That head of yours couldn't hold straw!
Amos: Theodore?
Theodore: You couldn't sell hacksaws in a jail!
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Amos: How much money do you figure that dudes got in front of him?
Theodore: About five hundred.
Amos: Five hundred? WOW! You know, that'll be, uh, that's two hundred apiece!

APPLE DUMPLING GANG.......2007-02-10

THIS WAS A VERY GOOD FILM. WE REALLY LIKE DON KNOTTS AND TIM CONWAY.
WISH THERE WERE MORE GOOD CLEAN MOVIES TO WATCH.

Another Great Walt Disney Picture.......2007-02-01

When I do a movie review I base it on what I think of the movie and not anyone else. This picture was made back in 1975 and is another great Walt Disney picture. Bill Bixby plays the role of Russel Donovan, Tim Conway plays the role of Gangster Amos Tucker, Don Knotts plays the role of Gangster Theodore Ogelvie, and Harry Morgan plays the role of Sheriff Homer McCoy. Donovan comes to town looking for a poker game while on his way to New Orleans. Donovan is approach by an old friend and wants him to claim what's on the stage that belongs to him. Donovan agrees only to fine that he's reasonable for three little kids. According to the local sheriff Donovan has to attend to these three little kids. After an earthquake shakes the area, the children find a large gold nugget worth tens of thousands of dollars. But their newfound wealth is causing more problems than it's solving, so they agree to "give" the gold to two bumbling outlaws (Knotts & Conway). But they only way they can get the gold are to steal it from the bank vault where it's being held for safe keeping.

When will the movies be on one DVD?.......2007-01-18

I love both Apple Dumpling Gang films. I can't wait to own both films. I'm waiting for the 2-Movie Collection of both movies on one DVD. When will the two movies come out on DVD? Please let people like me know. Thank you very much.

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Summer of Maturity
The Dishes are Done Man!
Awesome Classic Movie
MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!
Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Starring: Christina Applegate , Joanna Cassidy , John Getz , Josh Charles , and Keith Coogan
Director: Stephen Herek
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ASIN: B00004XMVA
Release Date: 2000-12-12

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Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead aspires to be a cross between Home Alone and Risky Business, with Christina Applegate as an inadvertent scam artist who gets in over her head and somehow pulls it off. When her mother goes to Australia for two months, Sue Ellen (Applegate) thinks she's going to be in charge--until an elderly tyrant of a babysitter arrives. But on the very first night the old lady has a heart attack and keels over. Sue Ellen and her siblings leave the body at a mortuary, only to discover afterward that all the money their mother had left for the summer was in the babysitter's clothes. So Sue Ellen has to get a job. Thanks to a trumped-up resume, she ends up as an executive assistant at a clothing manufacturer. For a while she keeps her head above water by skillfully exploiting a friendly coworker, but her brothers and sisters are running amok at home and a venomous receptionist has it in for her at work. The role-reversal humor of Sue Ellen having to mother her siblings is unsurprising, but Applegate is unexpectedly appealing; her scenes with Josh Charles (Dead Poet's Society, Threesome) have a sweet chemistry. Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, The Laughing Policeman) plays Sue Ellen's boss and a young David Duchovny (The X-Files, The Rapture) is a weaselly clerk. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Mom has taken a trip, leaving the kids with a babysitter. There's only one problem - she just died! Now the kids can have a summer full of fun - or can they?

DVD Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menus
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Summer of Maturity.......2007-05-24

Director Stephen Herek and writers Neil Landau and Tara Ison present us with a tale that requires a lot of suspension of disbelief.
This 1991 flick focuses on the chaotic life of the Crandell Family, headed by a single mother (Concetta Tomei) who is to vacation in Australia for three months.
She leaves her five children in the care of octogenarian Mrs. Struak (Eda Reiss Merin), who appears nice on the surface, but who proves to be a tyrannical martinet once Mrs. Crandell leaves. Luckily, her tyranny is cut short after less than a day with her sudden death.
Rather than calling the authorities, the children dispose of her in front of a funeral home, and the oldest child, Sue Ellen(Christina Applegate), takes a job at a hot dog stand when they discover that the money their mother left for household expenses was with the corpse.
Sue Ellen's co-worker and High School sweetheart, Bryan (Josh Charles),
tries to rekindle a romance. But Sue Ellen moves on, using a fake resume to get a job with a fashion firm. She is mistakenly employed as an executive when she only wanted the receptionist's position. But her new boss, Rose Linsey, (Joanna Cassidy)is deeply impressed. Rose is dating co-worker, Gus (John Getz), who makes advances towards the pretty ingenue. Co workers Bruce, and Cathy (David Duchovny, Kimmy Robertson) try to discredit Sue Ellen.
At home Sue Ellen's brother Kenny ( Keith Coogan, with the acting chops of grandfather Jackie) begins a transition from a pot smoking slacker to an efficient household manager and cook. Younger siblings, including softball player, Melissa, lovelorn Zach, and adventerous Walter (Danielle Harris, Christopher Pettiet, and Robert Hy Gorman) fall in line as well.
Inevitably, there are critical missteps, and Sue Ellen gives herself and her siblings one more chance fore redemption before turning everyone in. Watch for a scene of Kenny and Sue Ellen sparring like an old married couple.
Sue Ellen is slated to give a fashion presentation, and with a lot of help from their friends, the Crandell kids pull it off brilliantly.
But Sue Ellen's lies are soon exposed, and Mom comes home and pulls the plug.
No matter. Rose expresses her gratitude for the teenager's help during the summer, and may help her get into college.
Mrs. Crandell is impressed by her oldest son's reinvention of himself, and the positive aspect of this story is that the kids inspire their friends to have a sense of direction for their lives as well.
The whereabouts of the babysitter's remains seem rather irrelevant in the end.

The Dishes are Done Man!.......2007-05-10

Love this movie!! Great for a good laugh. Very cute movie and good for teenage kids...I watched as a child and have loved it since day one.

Awesome Classic Movie.......2007-05-08

Don't Tell Mom is an awesome, classic movie. I love Christina Applegate. It's lighthearted and funny. Anyone would enjoy this movie. Not for children.

MUCH BETTER THAN THE TITLE SOUNDS!.......2007-03-20

One of the better teen comedies of the time period and way better than the title leads you to believe! The good cast does what it can with the far fetched and silly script. It's kinda like Working Girl meets Home Alone...I guess?

Don't tell mom the babysitters Dead.......2007-03-08

A perfect movie for babysitter's everywhere. Christina Applegate is histerical in this outrageous movie about 5 kids that have the summer to themselves because there mother is in Australia and there babysitter just died. See what they do and how they make it through the summer in this fabulous hit!

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VRonan
GREAT MOVIE
DVD purchase
I looked for this every where.
Just as good as the first!

Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York
Starring: Gerry Bamman , Donna Black , Eddie Bracken , Daiana Campeanu , and Ron Canada
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ASIN: B00000K3CM
Release Date: 1999-10-05

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This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom Keogh

Description

Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!

Customer Reviews:

VRonan.......2007-05-22

I don't know which one was funnier the first or the second, but they are both great.

GREAT MOVIE.......2007-04-28

however...i preorded on Home Alone 2 cause it said it was to be realsed April 27th...there was no picture...i ordered...its still just the regular old edition of the movie...

DVD purchase.......2007-03-26

DVD arrived quickly and was in excellent condition. I will use
Amazon again. Very dependable. Thank you.

I looked for this every where........2007-03-25

So Happy I could find this movie! It is a gift for someone who loves it and I couldn't find it anywhere else.

Just as good as the first!.......2007-01-22

I cant really decide which one I like better this or Home Alone 1. They are both awesome. My 6 year old and 3 year old absolutely love this one and watch it everyday! Sometimes we even spot "Harry and Marv in thier van" when we are out and about. A really fun movie, I highly recommend getting it.

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Absolutely Hilarious Exploits of an Eight-year Old Boy
Grestest Film! Decent Special Features!
A Holiday Classic Has Been Saved
DVD purchase
Home Alone - Family Fun Edition

Home Alone - Family Fun Edition
Starring: Macaulay Culkin , Joe Pesci , Daniel Stern , John Heard , and Roberts Blossom
Director: Chris Columbus
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ASIN: B000HT3PQK
Release Date: 2006-11-21

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Now and forever a favorite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realizes he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries the film. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. --Tom Keogh

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Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Hilarious Exploits of an Eight-year Old Boy.......2007-06-12

This comedy is loaded with ironies. The boy wishes that his family would disappear. For a time, he gets his wish. The boy, Kevin, considered to be incompetent, does exploits far beyond his age. Left alone by a big family who goes to Paris for Christmas, he takes care of the big house, does grocery shopping, and stymies two burglars. The burglars think that they will have an easy time with the boy, but instead get the hassle of their lives. A neighbor man, supposedly a murderer who used his snow shovel to kill his relatives, actually lost his relatives to an old, long-unresolved argument. As a further irony, he uses his snow shovel on the burglars. The mother, thinking that she is a bad parent for having forgotten her own son, learns from the Polka troupe (that is driving her home) that many of its members hardly ever see their children in the first place. Finally, the family, divided by spiteful comments, is brought together in their frantic efforts to return home to Kevin.

Grestest Film! Decent Special Features!.......2007-05-22

This is one of the greatest films of all time. It will be around forever! I was hoping this edition of the DVD would have special features with more shots and footage from the set from back in 1990. However, I'm sure that since it was 17 years ago most of the behind the scenes footage from the filming was lost. Most of the special features are just interviews with the people who put the film together, talking about what they did for the film. Be sure to listen to the DVD commentary with Macaulay Culkin and Chris Columbus. It's interesting to watch deleted footage that didn't make the film as well. Overall, I wish the special features were more elaborate and more on-set showing the actual shooting of the film, but since it was so long ago, I don't blame them for not having it on file anymore.

A Holiday Classic Has Been Saved.......2007-03-29

The first edition of this dvd was ok but lacked in the special features area and dvd quality. Thankfully the Family Fun edition has been released and the quality is excellent. This new edition has 5.1 sound and the picture quality is so much more crisper. This dvd is loaded with special features. It's hard to believe that Home Alone came out more than 16 years ago and has stood the test of time and is destined to be a holiday classic. Great fun movie...

DVD purchase.......2007-03-26

Product arrived quickly and was in excellent condition. No problems.
Thank you.

Home Alone - Family Fun Edition.......2007-03-19

This item is excellent and I am very happy that I ordered it. I wish that it would have arrived to me sooner.

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I'm glad I was never trapped on an island w/ these kids...
Pretty Good Movie
Great Product
It is an ok movie
Not the Best Adaptation

Lord of the Flies
Starring: Balthazar Getty , Chris Furrh , Danuel Pipoly , James Badge Dale , and Andrew Taft (II)
Director: Harry Hook
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ASIN: B00005O06X
Release Date: 2001-11-20

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Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the Lord of the Flies dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun." Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. --Keith Simanton

Description

With 'sharply expressive performances (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) by its young cast, this stunning adventure explores the deep dark corners of the human soul, as a group of adolescent castaways are thrust into an intense world where law and accountability are governed by the rules of survival. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itselfmarooned on a deserted island. Realizing the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the island paradise becomes their own, competition and power struggles split them into two packs. Ralph (Bathazar Getty) leads one group and preaches civilized ingenuity and togetherness, but Jack (Chris Furrh) wants nothing of it and builds a faction of barbaric hunters who ultimately go to war with Ralph. This powerful shift in conscience transforms ordinary kids into primal killers, setting off a devastating battle of good versus evil and presenting a haunting metaphor for the savage in us all.

Customer Reviews:

I'm glad I was never trapped on an island w/ these kids..........2007-06-07

This was a very good movie that came from an even better book. When I was younger I didn't understand people who would claim that the books were better than movies. Now, I do. However, I feel that for this statement to be true, one must have a vivid imagination and be able to immerse themselves in the world that the author created.

Anyway, I loved the book and I thought the movie was well done too. The kids are pretty good at acting. Almost too good, as if they were actually dropped off on an island and told that they had to figure out a way to survive. I would recommend watching this movie w/o children because I think it may be a bit much.

Pretty Good Movie.......2007-06-04

It doesn't follow the book that much, but I think it's pretty realistic of what you see in the movie. It should be different since it's expressing someone's own idea and point of view to the book. Pretty intense and a really great movie. Buy it.

Great Product.......2007-03-11

The product was received in great condition and timely delivered by the seller. I would buy again

It is an ok movie.......2007-02-11

This updated version of this movie is quiet a change from the book. But, just because it is a change from the book isn't a good reason for me not to like it. I did like the movie over all and I thought that the point that the director tried to make came across fine. Even though there were no adults there, the children did develop a "government" and those differences came out in the group that won compared to the group that lost followers. Also, in developing a "government" there was a hierachy of leadership and blood shed. See the movie for yourself and come to your own conclusions about the movie. For myself, I did enjoy it and will probably see it again.

Not the Best Adaptation.......2007-01-07

I read the book and then decided to purchase the film I thought it was not that bad but the swearing it was over the top. If you want to show this movie to students I'll be cautios there are more than 200 swearing words through out the film. There is an older version of this film, which is black and white, but far better than this one.

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too old fashioned
Subversive
This is a classic. Not to bad for Cruise work.
GOOD OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL
Adolescent male fantasy, I should say so

Risky Business
Starring: Tom Cruise , Rebecca De Mornay , Joe Pantoliano , Richard Masur , and Bronson Pinchot
Director: Paul Brickman
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ASIN: 0790732203
Release Date: 1997-08-20

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Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his underwear. But there's more to this 1983 hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of crass materialism wrapped in an irresistible plot about a crafty high schooler named Joel (Cruise) who goes into risky business with the beguiling prostitute Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) while his parents are out of town. Joel turns his affluent Chicago-suburb home into a lucrative bordello and forms a steamy personal and professional partnership with Lana, but only as long as the two can avoid the vengeful pimp Guido (Joe Pantoliano) and keep their customers happy. A signature film of the 1980s, Risky Business still holds up thanks to Cruise's effortless charm and the movie's timeless appeal as an adolescent male fantasy. --Jeff Shannon

Description

High school senior is tired of being Mr. All-American and facing such traumatic decisions as which Ivy League college to attend. His life gets turned around when he meets a sexy call girl who transforms his house into a brothel while his parents are away.

DVD Features:
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

too old fashioned.......2007-02-18

not that exciting, nor does it come with some amazing twists. maybe it fits the taste of the early 80's. the girl next door is more fun to watch, and damn, elisha cuthbert is hot.

Subversive.......2006-12-11

A subversive, quintessential 1980s-style coming-of-age story, disguised as an 80s teen sex romp, set in the Chicago suburbs. It recasts the elements of William Faulkner's coming-of-age story, The Reivers--the young man (Joel), the old man's car (the Porsche), the corrupting influence (Curtis Armstrong), and Miss Reba's house (his parents' North Shore home), twisting them into a sort of Reagan-era fable where it's OK, even admirable, to be a pimp for a weekend. The moral: take responsibility for your own mess, get rid of the evidence, and exploit the corruptibility of your Princeton admissions rep.

This is a classic. Not to bad for Cruise work. .......2006-08-22

This is again one of those movies that has been hyped up for years as a classic, often played in edited form on Cable movie channels, and is recognized as the birth of the monster that is know as Cruise. The story of a high school kid from a well off family said "what the heck"...well, different 4 letter word. But, every kids dream was having the house alone. Party time. Good kids would stay at home board and dreaming, bad kids would throw the party. Well, this movie was the changing of that good kid to the risk taking bad kid. Playing on the fantasy life of many young men, Joel is a Senior in high school trying to get to college and "walking the line" at home to not dissapoint his patents. Well, when their away, peer pressure gets the best of him and he make a call out of the personals for a "date"...and the rest is history. From thier his life take a nose dive. Can he save it? Well, the fantasy plays out and walla, he get into princton. Its how he gets their is fun. Probably the best acting from Tom Cruise in his life, Just honestly looking back went down from here. And the rest of the cast was good as well. A dark comedy, but funny at times. Worth a watching.

GOOD OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL.......2006-08-17

THE SCENE ON THE METRO, THAT WAS HOT, BACK THEN, STILL TIMELESS. TOM CRUISE'S BEST. I LOVE TEEN COMEDIES ESPECIALLY ONES FROM THE EIGHTIES. AND THAT CRYSTAL EGG AND THE PORSCHA..HILARIOUS, THIS MOVIE IS SPECIAL TO ME BECAUSE IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST RATED R MOVIES I WATCHED BACK THEN. AND HOW TRUE IT WAS, TEENAGERS DANCING IN THEIR UNDERWEAR WHEN THERE PARENTS ARE NOT HOME, ONE WHO SAYS THEY HAVEN'T IS LYING.

Adolescent male fantasy, I should say so.......2006-08-05

A much better film than I imagined and was led to believe. Even we mature males fantasize about these things, at least I do. I enjoyed it much to my surprise and so did my wife. (Don't tell her about my fantasies, allright?) Surprisingly good acting by Cruise and the lovely Rebecca de Mornay who I saw only a few days ago in "The Shining". I wonder what she is like now, 23 years later. I'm sure she is still lovely. Light but fun.

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Mean spirited and unfunny.
Best of Bunch So Far
GO ALEX!!!!!!!!!!
Our Christmas favorite, kids are funny.
Not a Real Sequel

Home Alone 3
Starring: Alex D. Linz , Olek Krupa , Rya Kihlstedt , Lenny von Dohlen , and David Thornton
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ASIN: 6305168911
Release Date: 1998-11-03

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Here's a perfect movie for kids, who never seem to tire of John Hughes's sure-fire slapstick formula. Working yet another variation on his mammoth 1990 hit, writer-producer Hughes (regarded by many as Hollywood's antichrist) strands a youngster in his own home with the chicken pox in this 1997 retelling. While his parents go to work, he sees a team of burglars invading the neighborhood houses; in fact, they're spies, looking for a toy containing a stolen microchip. The inevitability of the finale--one kid holding off four professionals with toys and garden tools--will do nothing to lessen the amusement of youngsters, who love to see the bad guys get creamed. Adults may pause at the sadistic nature of some of Hughes's pranks, but kids will eat up the image of one of their own outwitting all the adults. --Marshall Fine

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A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car, but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry, madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys -armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps!

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Mean spirited and unfunny........2007-03-20

In the first 2 films, the kid was left alone by accident. In this one, it is deliberate. That's right, the mother leaves her small child home alone by choice. The kid is an evil genius type who has more toys than the Mythbusters. His traps are meant to maim or kill the so-called bad guys, who are so unbelievably stupid it is difficult to accept they would be smart enough to steal a computer chip. Speaking of the chip -- something like that would fail if it were handled by so many people; it has to be in an anti-static protective bag, not in a toy car. But most Hollywood types don't seem to know anything about computers. Or the range of a toy car's remote control. Or a TV remote control. Or how a small child could put barbells on a roof. Or move a 4x8 sheet of plywood...or.... In short, just about everything in this movie stretches credulity beyond even cartoon violence. This also proves that to pull off this concept you need a cast of people with talent. The original 2 films work only because of a good cast. It certainly isn't the writing. Left to the writing alone, this type of film just fails. It also leaves one with a sense of mean-spiritedness at the heart of the film. And that is because it is such an unnecessary sequel with ties to the originals in name only.

Best of Bunch So Far.......2007-02-02

Out of the first three that I have viewed, this is by far and away my vote for best. The lead actor is marvelous, so genuine and so expressive. The plot carries on the Home Alone theme: parents leaving young boy alone, burglars attack, boy's ingenuity foils them, siblings nasty to the nth.

Here, Home Alone goes high tech, on the burglars part and on the defender boy's as well. From outset, scene is set with defense part chip that gets mistakenly taken at airport security and ends up in young boy's remote car, which thus becomes center point in the plot.

The defensive measures this Alex takes up are what makes this one so good! From aid of talkin parrot to yarn wound electrified wire, this one caused great laughter.

Such great family viewing pleasure!

GO ALEX!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-01-25

Wow! The Booby Traps were even more severe and a lot better!! Although I really miss Harry and Marv
PROS-
-Booby Traps are better
-Number of criminals extend

BAD-
-Acting is half terrible
-This movie has a totally different cast

What I don't understand is the storyline. IT'S DIFFERENT!!!!!!

Our Christmas favorite, kids are funny........2007-01-10

This is our favorite movie for the holidays or when it is snowing and cold outside. This is the best of the Home alone movies. I like this kid better than the first kid. His acting is really good. I mean yo uknow that a kid cannot do some of the things that they have him do, but it is very funny to see what this kid does, some of the things that you see being done you cannot figure out what he is doing. This one does not involve the kid being left behind for the holiday, much more believable series of events.

Not a Real Sequel.......2007-01-07

I just don't understand why the movie producers could not have used Macaulay Culkin as an older (which he was by then) and a more mature Kevin McAllister.
By the time Home Alone 4 came out, Macaulay Culkin got older yet the protagonist remained the same---Kevin McAllister. (Is the protagonist to remain a small child all his life?)
But in this movie, none of the characters in the first two "Home Alone" films were even cast. It's a whole new film with a whole new cast of characters. So it's not even a sequel. The only things that are similar are the booby traps, though different criminals.
I suppose if you strictly like crime, intrigue and booby traps, then this film is for you.
But for those of you out there who have not seen this film yet, do not expect the family warmth and Christmas charm of the first two "Home Alones." They aren't there.
I must say, though, that the child actor in question is off to a good start; he does a terrific job. But I would say the only real comedians in this film are the parrot and Doris the rat, especially when they share a ride on a toy.

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Blue Lagoon is not blue.
just the way i remembered
Age of innocence and embarrassment
It was great and awful at the same time
Gentle story of discovery and love

The Blue Lagoon (Special Edition)
Starring: Brooke Shields , Christopher Atkins , Leo McKern , William Daniels , and Elva Josephson
Director: Randal Kleiser
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ASIN: B00000K3D1
Release Date: 1999-10-05

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The cinematography by Néstor Almendros garnered him an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, the performance by then child star Brooke Shields garnered her a nomination, too--for a Razzie Award. She won, he didn't.

This 1980 remake of a much classier, 1949 British version features Shields and Christopher Atkins as children shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They grow to maturity and fall in love, with the script paying special attention to their burgeoning sexuality. Should you desire more trite dialogue, there is an even less satisfying sequel, 1991's Return to the Blue Lagoon. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Blue Lagoon is not blue........2007-04-20

Blue Lagoon is not a blue (raunchy, erotic, etc.) movie at all. It is an interesting examination of the scenario it presents. I have never understood why the critics all rate it so poorly. And I don't even understand why almost everyone scorns the dialogue, and the acting. It all seemed reasonable and realistic enough to me, given the ages of the protagonists (not the actors). What's the matter with the carpers? This is a fine and beautiful movie, much better than lots that are rated higher.

just the way i remembered.......2007-02-21

i hadn't seen this movie in years. still love it

Age of innocence and embarrassment.......2006-09-16

**Possible spoilers** In this infamous movie, Richard and Emmeline land as children on a remote island with the gruff but loveable Paddy. Not long after Paddy shows them the basics of survival, Paddy dies and the two youngsters are left all alone and forced to fend for themselves. Nature takes its course and it isn't long before the teenaged Emmeline becomes pregnant. What are the fates if these three? It would be all too easy to conclude this is a tale of morality, funded by a religious conservative group and filmed to warn kids and their parents about the dangers of sex before marriage, the price of ignorance and the importance of parental involvement in a child's life. A pregnant teen with no job, no health insurance and an unemployed husband, forced to live off the charity of others. Get thee to a nunnery. Yet I am going to go against the grain on this one and say that I don't think that was the purpose behind this film. If the goal was to serve as a warning, then why is there a happy ending even though there is no repentance? Certainly they must be made to pay for their sins?! This blatant effrontery and refutation of providence very obviously signifies an exercise of free will and desire for base pleasures. These children experience puberty in a very innocent and natural manner, without all the social stigmas and peer pressures that normally accompany this period of life. In this way, the film resembles a documentation of human development and a social study. Plot aside, the acting is not especially good, though it would be difficult for most of us to deliver some of these lines with a straight face. Not a bad film, just not all that great either.

It was great and awful at the same time.......2006-08-07

Blue Lagoon was a commercial success but due to the terrible acting and the cheesy storyline, the movie did very bad with the critics.

I personally loved the beautiful scenery - the ocean and the islands - it really does make the movie worth seeing. And Brooke Shields was just about the most gorgeous girl to look at when she made this movie - this is why the movie was a commercial success. Though Brooke's acting was just terrible, she was so beautiful to look at that no one cared. Now Brooke is trying so hard to become a serious actress. She tries and tries and tries... however though she has improved somewhat, she just is not a good actress. I just watched Bob the Butler and throughout the movie her efforts to try so hard to act well made it that I just couldn't see her character. Brooke Shields trying so hard to act was all that anyone could see. However this doesn't for a second take away from her great beauty and sweet nature. She is a very nice person and a very lovely woman.

So if you haven't seen Blue Lagoon, see it if you just want to get lost in the beauty of nature and Brooke Shields. Otherwise you'll just laugh at this movie.

Gentle story of discovery and love.......2006-06-09

When Blue Lagoon came out in the theatres, I was 17, and my parents refused to allow me to see it. It wasn't until I was 29, married and had cable that I finally watched this contraversial film. While I still think it more appropriate for the actors to have been 18 years old, rather than 14, due to the mature themes and nudity, this is not your hot and sweaty sex movie. You can get that from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and just about any daytime/primetime TV, these days. What the story is about is 2 cousins, eventually left on their own, trying to survive in an Eden-like paradise, with the innocence of children and the natural curiosities that adolescence brings on. They love, gently and affectionately, they have a child, they are content. When a ship nears, they make a mutual decision to remain on the island and not try to be rescued. In a word, they are complete. While the acting overall was pretty pathetic, and the script trite in many places, there were some poignant moments; Em "meeting" God and laying flowers at his feet so they would not make Him mad and would go to Heaven. Richard contemplating the bleached skeleton of Paddy and realizing his own eventual fate, as well as that of Em and his son. The mutual decisions not to be saved, as well as saying farewell to each other after eating poison berries, when accidently drifting out to sea. One cannot but be heartbroken when they are found asleep, rather than dead, because there will be no place in society for them. They belong in paradise, and the director should have let them die. Even the music becomes sad rather than jubilant. Scenery gorgeous, a beautiful score, acting fairly bad. So, why do we keep returning to Blue Lagoon? Because wouldn't we all like to be marooned on a gorgeous tropical island with our perfect love and be left to live simple and fulfilling lives in paradise? 5 stars for the idea, 2-3 for acting, so gave it a 4.

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Absolutely Hilarious Exploits of an Eight-year Old Boy
Grestest Film! Decent Special Features!
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