Breezy

Starring:Jamie Smith Jackson, Eugene Peterson
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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A sweet love story.
Filling my Pockets with Peppermint and Thyme
Good Things Do Come in Small Packages
Intriguing May-December love story
An outstanding love story! Fine acting, cast, plot, humor

Breezy
Starring: Norman Bartold , Lynn Borden , Richard Bull , Roger C. Carmel , and Johnnie Collins III
Director: Clint Eastwood
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Release Date: 2004-06-01

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A sweet love story........2007-03-27

This is a really cute film made in 1973. I really enjoyed it. Loved all the early 1970's clothes & cars, too. Though it seems very unrealistic & unlikely that a 19 year old would find love with a man of 55, this film makes it very believable. Breezy (Kay Lenz) is a beautiful free spirited teenage hippie (she looks like a cross between Jessica Simpson and Hilary Swank). Holden is a middle aged, concervative, recently divorced & hardened workaholic with a beautiful house in the Hollywood Hills. He picks the teenager up one day hitchiking & takes her in to live with him. They have nothing in common (but a stray dog) but a deep bond emerges between them anyway. They fall in love within a matter of days. He states that he is twice her age when in fact he is almost 3 times her age! There is a beautiful scene where they unexpectedly kiss for the first time at the beach. The love scenes are tastfully done. She's not after his money and he's not after her body. They are mismatched soulmates that fall in love.
A few times his friends and ex wife see him out with Breezy at the movies and out to dinner and he becomes uncomfortable and they break up for a short time only to reunite at the end. A wonderful love story. It makes you believe anything is possible.

Filling my Pockets with Peppermint and Thyme.......2006-12-23

BREEZY beats most of Clint Eastwood's present-day output by a country mile, for it has no pretensions to being anything other than what it is, and plus in hindsight it is, oddly enough, one of the movies that best tells it like it was about hippie culture. The things that seemed "off" about it back in the day (Michel Legrand's "folk music" theme, for example, repeated endlessly, even in a sitar variation) have reached a pitch of resonance today. I for one, got ready to weep every time the orchestra seemed about to launch into the nth variation on "Breezy's Song." Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote many bad lyrics in the period, but their lyric for "Breezy's Song" perfectly encapsulates the hippie ethos that Kay Lenz' character is supposed to embody.

She is great, and another example of the strong roles for women that Eastwood seems drawn to even from the beginning. She is so young and beautiful, nearly flawless, that it seems odd her hair is always clean like a Breck girl, even in the beginning scenes when she exclaims over William Holden's shower as though she's never seen one. He plays Frank Harmon, a real estate agent in Laurel Canyon. That's the weak part of the picture, Eastwood never makes Holden believable as a salesman. He's not driven enough. He's more laidback than the hippies on the corner. Almost as great are the twists and turns that the screenplay makes. On the surface a placid little mood piece, BREEZY has at least two great shocks, both taking place in hospitals, that will leave you with your jaw on the floor. Jo Heims, who did this screenplay, was also responsible for an earlier Eastwood vehicle, the thriller PLAY MISTY FOR ME, and she knows how to throw a curveball. Shame that she is not more widely recognized among the great screenwriters, but perhaps her tragically early death has something to do with her current eclipse. For me, all the things people say Robert Towne does, Jo Heims really does, but backwards and in high heels.

(She also wrote the Patty Duke thriller YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER.)

Holden is good, and manages to look younger as the movie rolls on and the love of Breezy reinvigorates him. Ultimately the movie depends on how much you can stand of Kay Lenz. Some think she's too intense for the movie. For others, she will seem too twee with her positivist philosophy of finding a bright spot in anything and counting on love to see her through. Her frequent nudity is unabashed and "natural," and it's great to see a woman on screen whose breasts are so very different from each other, something you hardly ever see today in Hollywood! A wonderful bonus is the presence of Jamie Smith-Jackson as Breezy's best girlfriend, the miserably drug-addled hippie girl Marcie. Jamie Smith-Jackson! Cult legend of cult legends! Not only did she star in SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, but she WAS "Alice" in GO ASK ALICE!

Good Things Do Come in Small Packages.......2006-12-04

A small but well-crafted movie with good performances. Kay Lenz's movie career never worked out and this is a later work by Holden and an earlier work by Eastwood. Thus, Breezy isn't watched much anymore. Very interesting in showing how Eastwood developed and Holden settled, if that sort of insight interests you. The pace is lesurely and dialogue and plot somewhat passe nowadays. A must for Holden or Eastwood completists.

Intriguing May-December love story.......2006-06-20

Clint Eastwood directed this interesting film about a May-December relationship at a time of monumental change in America. William Holden plays a middle-aged, buttoned-down collar, conservative businessman who falls for the young, vivacious, counter-culture hippie Kay Lenz. Lenz is not your LSD-popping whacko nut-job, but a pretty decent, sane positive-thinking individual who brings a certain joie de vivre to Holden's humdrum existence; but he's too ruffled by their age difference and takes on life to let himself commit to her. Eastwood knows how to get the sparks flying between the two, however, and the movie is a compelling look at two incompatibles dancing around each other in dangerous though intriguing territory. The viewer is uplifted and richly satisfied when the movie is all over.

An outstanding love story! Fine acting, cast, plot, humor.......2006-01-10

All right. it's, ahem, inter-generational love, but all the sweeter for being ultimately doomed..maybe.

Frank is burned out. He's had all the women and success he wants, and he's at the "is this all there is?" stage. Nothing touches him. He's seen it all..

And then...Breezy! This bright beautiful happy hippy chick flows into his acerbic world. He fights it. He ain't interested. He sends her away. He tries to ditch her. He knows it's wrong. But...

Kay Lenz is beautiful. And nude. Frequently. That's a heck of a fine combination all by itself, but her sunny disposition and William Holden's burnt-out sardonic adultness just strike sparks together you won't see often in a movie. Maybe not a movie to watch with your jealous aging wife, but a fine amusing bittersweet and humorous flick of an unusual love affair with two excellent stars. You won't forget Breezy..

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I liked it!
Not a good vehicle for David's talents

The Hard Easy
Starring: Henry Thomas , David Boreanaz , Vera Farmiga , Bruce Dern , and Peter Weller
Director: Ari Ryan
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
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ASIN: B000O599VW
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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In The Hard Easy, two men with money problems find themselves racing the clock--and each other--to get to a stash of cash that may help dig them out of financial trouble. Paul Weston (Henry Thomas, Gangs of New York, E.T.) is a gambler. Roger Hargitay (David Boreanaz, Bones, Angel) is a stockbroker who has squandered his funds. Through coincidence, they are both recruited by different thugs to rob the same place on the same day. Pop singer Nick Lachey, who makes his feature film debut as Roger's buddy and fellow accomplice, does a nice job in a small role. The actors make for nice eye candy, but it's the grizzled veterans who make the biggest impact. Bruce Dern (The Great Gatsby) and Paul Weller (Robocop) eat up the scenery in their turns as the charismatic puppet masters behind the heist. Though the plot is as transparent as some of the clothes Vera Farmiga (who plays a stunning doctor) wears, the film is on par with Mark Wahlberg's more glamorous The Italian Job: an exciting caper that doesn't make much sense. --Jae-Ha Kim

Description

Although Paul Weston and Roger Hargitay don't know each other, they have the same problem. They both owe a lot of money, have no conceivable way to pay it back and the clock is ticking. When each gets the opportunity to join a different gang of thieves for a heist that will clear their respective debts, what choice do they possibly have? The good thing is that it will be an easy robbery - an inside job...But maybe it's too easy...?

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
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Customer Reviews:

I liked it!.......2007-06-22

While I agree this is not the best venue for David Boreanaz (the reason I bought the DVD), I enjoyed the movie. Unlike the previous reviewer, however, I think Boreanaz's strongest role is as a leading man in an action movie with, of course, some of those funny quips. He is so great in Bones and was wonderful in Angel. He's an alpha male and shines in those roles.

As for the movie itself, the plot was unlikely, but most movies are. I liked all the characters and think the movie took some great plot twists. You just never knew who was going to get shot next! Now, that's entertainment!

Not a good vehicle for David's talents.......2007-06-05

This film is really bad - if there was a zero star rating that's what I'd have given it. I was watching it from the perspective of a David Boreanaz fan but, even so, I had to force myself to keep watching until the end. The plot concerns two separate groups of people plotting the same heist. Potentially this could have had hilarious consequences but the writers forgot to inject any humour into the script. The role of Roger really was a waste of David's talents. He has such a gift for romantic comedy I have no idea why he would accept a role like this. It was certainly a mistake. Let's hope his next film is better.

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Rin-Tin-Tin: Law of the Wild
Starring: Bob Custer , Rex , Rex the Wonder Horse , and Jr. Rin Tin Tin
Director: B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason , and Armand Schaefer
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Rin Tin Tin and Rex the Wonder Horse come to the aid of their owner who is falsely accused of murder in 12 action-packed chapters of this classic serial

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The Last of the Mohicans: 1-12
Starring: Edwina Booth , Hobart Bosworth , Harry Carey , and Jr. Frank Coghlan
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