Outrage

Starring:Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Kathryn Harrold, Eric Michael Cole, Shane Meier, Cyrus Thiedeke, Jerry Wasserman, Nathaniel DeVeaux, Robert Wisden, Jennifer Clement, Fulvio Cecere, Bob Morrisey, Lesley Ewen, Christine Willes, Johnny Kirkpatrick, Jayme Knox, Greg Rogers, Michael Kopsa, Robin Collins, Reg Tupper
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

Working man, Tom Casey had no idea that being a good citizen would cost him everything. Not every good deed is rewarded as Casey and his wife become trapped in a retaliatory cycle of revenge and violence against those who committed the crimes and are now making them pay the price.

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Starring: Cyrus Thiedeke, Eric Michael Cole, Jennifer Grey, Kathryn Harrold, Rob Lowe, and Shane Meier.
Directed By: Robert Allan Ackerman.
Running Time: 90 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Standard" format.
Copyright 2002 Artisan Entertainment.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, suspenseful movie! Rob Lowe's best performance!.......2003-08-17

I don't want to give away many details (like other reviewer) because it is best just to watch as the unfortunate but mesmerizing story unfolds. I happened to catch this movie on TV and got totally caught up in the story. I felt such pity for Rob Lowe and his wife! They were not all together likeable but certainly didn't deserve the unrelenting treatment dished out by the three teenagers- pure antagonists. At first, I thought, these guys are too cruel to be believed, especially for youngsters, but then I remembered that when I went to a private school in the 8th grade for the first time (similar to the background I imagined for these pampered boys), there were individual who were unmerciful to anyone who didn't fit into the narrow perception of what "they" considered "cool." I was particularly vulnerable for abuse being the "new kid, " but I was not ignored and left to go my own quiet way as I wished; instead, I was constantly singled out and picked on. The events in the movie escalate to something I never experienced (whew!), but the story is done in such a compelling and frighteningly realistic manner, I really felt deep hatred for the boys causing the trouble and wished for mercy or at least justice for the victimized couple. Well worth watching!

This Is A Keeper! You Will Not Be Disappointed!.......2002-11-06

This movie is awesome! It stars Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey, who are a young married couple about to have a child. Without giving the plot away, they become the target of theft, harassment and home invasion. The bad guys in this movie got my blood boiling, because I just wanted to see them get what they had coming to them. They are so cruel. However...this is not a movie about chopping off heads and blood baths. This is about a couple who fall victim, need help, try to get help, and can only hope that they will get justice. Some movies are so predictable that you just know how they will end. This one has you guessing all the way through and you just are not sure if the good guy's will end up 'on top'. All I will say to that is...Guess you'll have to watch to find out! Check it out!

Artists of the 20th Century - Francis Bacon

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A boring disappointment
Very Disappointing
Mixed presentation of a great artist!

Artists of the 20th Century - Francis Bacon
Starring: Artists of the 20th Century
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Artists of the 20th Century: Marcel Duchamp

ASIN: B00019G8E2
Release Date: 2004-03-16

Description

The definitive biography of artist Francis Bacon accompanied by spectacular images of his greatest work.

Customer Reviews:

A boring disappointment.......2005-08-10

First of all, buyer beware! This is not a documentary about the great British painter Francis Bacon as you might think, but merely images of paintings with voiceover commentary, like a rather boring slide lecture. The image quality is not good (these were clearly made from photographs rather than from the original paintings themselves) and the paintings are sometimes rather oddly cropped; it's definitely not worth buying the DVD just for the images. The commentary I found dull, sometimes inaccurate and needlessly euphemistic about, e.g., Bacon's homosexuality and his relationship with George Dyer, which have significance in understanding some of the paintings. From the point at which the paintings seem to cut off and the quality and style of the video, I'm guessing this film was originally done in the late 1970s and not updated. Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the 20th century, but you'd never understand why from what you see on this DVD. If you're interested in a good documentary about Francis Bacon, skip this one and watch the wonderful 1985 documentary "Francis Bacon", done by David Hinton for the BBC's "South Bank Show," with its entertaining interviews with the artist.

Very Disappointing.......2004-07-10

I'm a great admirer of Bacon's work. That being said, this DVD sucked! There is no actual video footage, rather they show a poorly produced slide show that was probably done using PowerPoint. The fact that there is no video is made even more unbearable by the poor quality of the images shown. The two redeeming qualities of this video are the detailed commentary and the sheer number of images. Don't waste your time or money...if you have to, rent it.

Mixed presentation of a great artist!.......2004-04-10

I had really looked forward to Kultur's new "Artists of the 20th Century" series, and particularly the Francis Bacon DVD. Bacon has been my favorite artist for many years, and I have several books on his work.

The good news is that this 52-minute DVD presents a rich panorama of Bacon's work from the beginning of his career to the end. I had never seen several of these paintings before. The commentary is quite good (though the commentator is oddly unidentified) and provides considerable insight into the work--reason enough to own this DVD. I liked that the commentary indicated the metaphysical aspect of Bacon's work, which is often overlooked. The nature of human reality, and of material reality itself, is really Bacon's subject: the ephemeral nature of things.

Nonetheless, there are major disappointments in this disc:

First, it strikes me as a serious omission that the nature of Bacon's relationship with George Dyer is neither discussed nor indicated. The commentary leads one to believe that Dyer was merely one of Bacon's friends. In fact, Bacon had an intense sadomasochistic, love/hate relationship with Dyer, who eventually committed suicide. While it is not necessary to dwell on biographical elements to appreciate Bacon's art, Dyer is the overt subject of much of the artwork; and certainly their relationship was an important contribution to the psychological aspects of Bacon's paintings generally.

Second, the quality of the images in this DVD is quite disappointing, certainly unacceptable on a disc dealing with visual art! There is considerable loss of clarity on several of the paintings, and close-ups of details are generally quite fuzzy. In places, the image is clearly out-of-focus. (Were these photographs of slides projected on a screen?) Also, these photographic images invariably fail to capture Bacon's use of paint, his technical expertise. For instance, while the commentator notes Bacon's use of globs of white paint apparently thrown at the canvas, the effectiveness and precision of such apparently random or haphazard use of paint is lost.

Customer Reviews:

Never got it!.......2007-01-06

After getting several notices that the movie had been delayed, but would ship eventually...I decided to cancel the order. I waited months on it.
I suggest Amazon taking this movie off their list, since they don't have it, nor can they get it.

Very Dreary Film. Watch only for Neri's Heartbreaking Performance.......2006-11-10

The story follows Ana (played wonderfully by the beautiful Francesca Neri) as a sharp shooter performing in the circus. She falls in love with a journalist named Marcos (Antonio Banderas). After a brutal rape and several murders later, she finds herself on the run with Marcos chasing after her.

The DVD story would have you believe that this is a typical Rape/ Revenge flick where the rape occurs early on and the rest of the film is the woman seeking vengeance. But the rape doesn't occur until 40 minutes in giving the viewers plenty of time to get to know Ana and like her character. She looks like Rachel Weisz and is quite impulsive and quirky. Her character is very likable and you will find her emotionally honest even when she is lying. This will make watching her downfall a little difficult to bear.

You watch Ana fall in love with Marcos, make love with him, and then you see the excitement in her eyes when she runs to her door one fateful night expecting Marcos on the other side. The gang rape is brutal, but most of the violence (outside of the rape) is implied. The revenge part takes place very soon after. The rest of the film is Ana and Marcos trying to reach each other one last time, making several mistakes along the way, and a very climactic reunion at the end.

Where the story veers into stupidity, is when Marcos sees the news story of the rapists murders, assumes Ana is the killer without even speaking to her, and then proceeds to rat on her instantly. That amore'. Soon after, Ana visits a doctor for her excessive bleeding (ahem, vaginal, due to the "bottle assault"), the doctor immediately calls the police on her the moment Ana leaves the room. Rape Advocacy, yeah! And get this...the doctor then goes on the radio giving the victims name and detailing her vaginal wounds! Ethics? We don't need no stinking Ethics!

Ultimately, this film is incredibly depressing and bleak. The ending will not make you feel any better about what transpired before hand. The victim gets no justice and she is punished for being victimized. A cop even refers to her as "the bitch."

Favorite Quote: "I said I'd follow you to Hell, well, here I am," spoken by Marcos to Ana after he finally catches up to her at the end.

DVD Extras: Scene Selection and brief Film Facts. There is an Italian and English dubbed version. The dubbed version is terrible and takes away from the atmosphere. Plus, I know what Antonio Banderas sounds like and I can assure you that was not it.

Bottom Line: Very dreary film with not much to recommend here except Francesca Neri's great performance.

Rating: 6/10

Molly Celaschi

A Spanish tragedy........2005-03-28

I saw this film in Spanish-language VHS format with English subtitles. My experience with dubbed foreign films has been uniformly bad, and I avoid them like the plague. Dubbing ALWAYS makes a film worse, without exception, and no matter what the language.

I enjoy Saura's Flamenco films, and so was curious about what a Saura "action" film would look like. The fact that Antonio Banderas appears in it was a side issue for me. It was made before he made the Hollywood big-time, and was still trying to be a serious actor. He is actually quite good as the idealistic but jaded young newspaperman.

It is a curious film, not what I expected. Although it was made in 1997, and has televisions, computers, and cell phones in it, it reminded me of the bleak French and Italian films of the '40's and '50's, after WWII, before Europe became prosperous again. It has a distinctly unmodern, pessimistic atmosphere. The setting of the circus, and the character of a trick rider recall the 19th century. Anna, the rider/shooter, is clearly not at home in the contemporary world, seems to be caught in a time warp, and lives according to her own, pre-modern rules. The circus life has much in common with the gypsy life portrayed in Saura's flamenco films, and much of the flamenco "duende". (Note: The character Anna is the daughter of circus people, trapeze artists, from Bolzano, in the Alto Adige region of northern Italy, which accounts for her German surname. She is joking with Marcos when she says her mother was a Russian countess. Anna speaks Spanish with an Italian accent.)

The story is a revenge tragedy, a very old dramatic form, in a modern setting. But Saura, perhaps because he is Spanish, and has submerged himself in pre-modern gypsy culture, manages to avoid modern cliches while using this ancient form.

Her brief love affair with Marcos, the young reporter, is interrupted when she is raped by three young thugs, in one of the most brutally filmed scenes I have ever seen. Saura doesn't clean it up at all. You really want her to kill these vermin afterward.

A woman of Anna's accomplishments and character clearly isn't going to rest until her assailants have been punished. But this is a tragedy, not really an "action" film after all. Her killings of the rapist thugs are convincing in their ugliness, but her revenge is not sweet. It only makes her position more desperate, speeding her inexorable descent into hell. In the end, Saura makes us believe that Anna, guilty as she is, had her reasons, and that her death frees her of her sins.

The melancholy music adds to the bitter-sweet mood of the film.

The acting by Banderas and Neri is first rate. One believes that they are desperately in love, and that it would have ended badly regardless. In spite of the brutality, it is a romantic film, in the 19th century sense of the term.

It looks to me as though Neri did much of her own riding and shooting. The cinematography is quite good, Italianate, and Madrid has the look of a city lived in, not a movie set.

To make a DVD of a film like this in dubbed English only is complete philistinism, verging on the criminal.

Highly recommended in its original Spanish-language form. Even if you speak only a little Spanish, you will realize that the subtitles, even though they are pretty good, don't capture the profanity. There's no point watching it dubbed in English.

Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected.......2003-11-24

I purchased this DVD because I liked Antonio Banderas in "The Mask of Zorro" and because I heard that his co-star, Francesca Neri, was the "Italian Michelle Pfiffer." As far as I could tell, they both are obviously very talented actors. However, the film story was terrible. It is a very graphic rape story with a very unsatisfying ending. I was glad I purchased the DVD though because Francesca Neri is truly an incredibly gorgeous actress - and she has one of the most gigantic Adam's apples I've ever seen on a woman!

Outrage with Banderas.......2001-09-22

This movie is horrible and brutal with no interesting hooks and really bad dubbing. Antonio Banderas can not even save this movie with all his talent.

Average customer rating:

Never got it!
Very Dreary Film. Watch only for Neri's Heartbreaking Performance
A Spanish tragedy.
Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected
Outrage with Banderas

Outrage
Starring: Francesca Neri , Antonio Banderas , Eulalia Ramón , Walter Vidarte , and Coque Malla
Director: Carlos Saura
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: 6304724772
Release Date: 1997-01-30

Customer Reviews:

Never got it!.......2007-01-06

Very Dreary Film. Watch only for Neri's Heartbreaking Performance.......2006-11-10

A Spanish tragedy........2005-03-28

Interesting...but not for the reasons I expected.......2003-11-24

Outrage with Banderas.......2001-09-22

This movie is horrible and brutal with no interesting hooks and really bad dubbing. Antonio Banderas can not even save this movie with all his talent.

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Antonio Banderas Says it All!

Outrage
Starring: Antonio Banderas
Manufacturer: Allumination Filmworks/Allumin
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008AOVR
Release Date: 2003-02-25

Description

Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.

Customer Reviews:

Antonio Banderas Says it All!.......2005-03-03

All you need to know is it is another amaizing Banderas film. That is all.

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Christmas Orange
Starring: French Tickner , Scott McNeil , Ellen Kennedy , Danny McKinnon , and Don Brown
Director: Ian Freedman
Manufacturer: Studio Works
ProductGroup: DVD
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Description

When Young Anton Stingley, who was born on Christmas Day, wakes on Christmas morning to find that instead of the 600 toys he has requested, his gift from Santa is one single, simple orange, he is outraged! There is only one thing to do, sue Santa! The story unfolds with humor and drama as Anton discovers the meaning of that one sweet orange.

Charlie Rose with William Bennett; Conan O'Brien; Howell Raines (September 15, 1998)

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Charlie Rose with William Bennett; Conan O'Brien; Howell Raines (September 15, 1998)

Manufacturer: Charlie Rose
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Description

First, William Bennett, co-director of Empower America, discusses his new book, The Death of Outrage, which criticizes Clinton's "assault on American ideals." Then, Conan O'Brien discusses his replacement of David Letterman on NBC's Late Night, the increasing success of his talk show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and his first prime-time television special. Finally, Howell Raines, hailing from Alabama and the editorial page editor of The New York Times, discusses the death and legacy of Alabama governor George Wallace.

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Our America, Our Revenge

Manufacturer: Tapeworm
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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