Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790729688
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790729687
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 26, 1997
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 68866
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 11, 1994
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When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - Thirsty for this Movie
You will really enjoy this movie!
Great acting, fun, funny and incredibly horrific!
If you are a fan of Anne Rice's, this movie is for you!
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt have great chemistry together.
Sit back and enjoy!
Rating: - Cruise & Neil Jordan create an unforgettable interview
When it was reported in the media that Tom Cruise was to play the lead part of Lestat, the legendary vampire, in Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire", the author herself was dead set against casting the famous movie star as her lead character. However after seeing the completed version of the film, Rice revised her opinion of Cruise and pronounced the performance "brilliant". This role, keep in mind, was passed over originally by Daniel Day Lewis and Jeremy Irons and in retrospect, they would've been too old to play the ever youthful Lestat so I think Cruise was an excellent choice. Also excellent are Brad Pitt as the doomed Louis and a very young Kirsten Dunst as the little girl who never ages. Neil Jordan, coming off his recent hit, "The Crying Game", also delivered with an involving psychological horror film of the first caliber. I am now renting this film in Blu-ray and will comment on its quality which is in debate by some of the customers here. Nevertheless, Blu-ray or standard, this is a film worth seeing if you're a fan of the book or an Anne Rice. I think Cruise is an under-rated actor who has also given brilliant performances in "Born on the 4th of July" and "Magnolia" but because of his good looks is often ignored (The Cary Grant fate!!) as Michael Caine has stated in an interview. Let's hope he doesn't do too many action films and goes for the jugular in his future films!!
Rating: - Sexual, Dark and Relatable. Louis got me Hooked!
I can't even begin to explain how incredible this Spellbinding movie from Anne Rice is. I'm very glad she has written it. She has a very workable imagination. Anybody can join in to work with her.(almost.) Well, let's get with the cast of this movie,now we have: Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt as the remorseful vampire, Louis, Kirsten Dunst as the precocious Claudia and Antonio Banderas as Armand. The movie starts with a character played by Christian Slater, readying his tape recorder,beginning to interview a...vampire. The human-like creature turns to him,revealing himself to be..Louis, Brad's character. He begins to tell his story from his P.O.V. When he was human, he had a wife who died of childbirth, his baby boy or girl never made it either. So, he was already ready for death.That's when a vampire named Lestat decided to answer his prayers. The first time he taken his blood,he asked him,has he had enough. The second time he taken his blood, he told him, " I'm going to give you the choice,I've never had." Lestat gave him another life, ETERNAL LIFE. And for that,Louis sees the last sunrise for himself. I gotta admit, Brad's character has never looked so handsome and beautiful before. What a sexy-looking vampire! Anyway, the vampire saying went, "In order to survive, you must feed!" Louis couldn't bring himself to feed on the blood of humans,leading Lestat to do all the killing. Louis always fed on the blood of poodles, chickens and rats. Lestat found it funny for some reason. When push came to ... Read More
Rating:  - Louis's (Eternal) Life Story
In this gothic, bloody, and witty film, the vampire Louis tells his life story to a curious man. The story spans years, but this is one film that doesn't drag on a second too long. It's an adaptation of the Anne Rice's novel of the same name, and one can tell that a lot of care was taken to get the story right, most likely because Rice herself penned the screenplay. The cast is mostly great, with Tom Cruise at a surprising high as the sadistic and clever vampire Lestat, Brad Pitt as the sympathetic vampire protagonist Louis, and a young Kirsten Dunst who gives a marvelous performance as the child vampire Claudia.
The movie lost me a bit with the introduction of Armand, mainly because I didn't like Antonio Banderas's performance, but I also don't really think the script--or Louis's chemistry with Armand, for that matter--sold the relationship between those characters to me. I thought that could have been developed a bit more, to make Louis's sudden desire to part ways with Claudia less abrupt. There's not much else fault I can find in the movie, though I should add that I don't think this film is for everyone. Those looking for a straight horror flick or even your average vampire tale might be surprised by the slowly building pace of this film. I loved the pacing, and felt as if I were in the room with Louis himself as he told the tale of his life. It's a brooding, dark, homoerotic, intelligent, and intricate film about a vampire trying to fight his nature, living with his choices, ... Read More
Rating: - Great
I read this book and have seen this movie many times and I can sincerely tell you they did an incredible job with this thing. It is completely memorable. Her book was amazing and I thought I would be disappointed with this but its pretty good. Cruise plays an awesome Lestat. Enjoy.
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