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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767859851
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767859855
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 05, 2002
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 5804
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1980
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Product Description:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed its up to the lots hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owners ruthless brother and used-car rival. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Kurt Russell Jack Warden Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: Robert Zemeckis
Amazon.com essential video:
This 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis gives no indication of things to come in his career (Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humor he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis's) of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used Cars more pastiche than original (the film's title itself suggests that), but as such it has some good, if vaguely familiar, laughs in it. Russell, particularly, is very funny as a practiced con man. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great, but with a caveat
If you've never seen it, definitely check it out. It has aged surprisingly well and is good for a lot of laughs. But if you are like me, and grew up seeing this (i.e., its severely edited version) on TV once a year or so throughout the 90s, you might be in for a shock. All the jokes are still there, but there is loads of profanity. So much so that you might no longer recognize it as one of your long-lost favorites.
I have no problem with profanity when it is used comedically, or as a characterization device, but it's probably overdone in this movie. Just shows how the MPAA has changed by the decade in its approach to ratings.
Rating:  - Hilarious Classic!
This DVD was hilarious--it you don't mind watching a movie that hasn't been 'digitally re-mastered' and you like comedy's--this is a great flick! It arrived on time and was brand new just at the description listed. Very happy with this purchase.
Rating:  - Disappointed
We watched this the first time on TV and thought it was so funny...I bought one and was very disappointed because it was filled with bad language......
Rating: - Good times!!
This is a great movie. I saw it at a drive-in back in 1980, and loved it since!!! Jack Warden puts on a great performance as the Fuchs Brothers!!
Kurt Russell plays the best "con artist" there is, Lenny and Squiggy are electronic geniuses, and all the actors were great!!! And don't forget Toby the cute beagle!!
Rating: - Funny
This is a funny movie to buy for someone who especially has a car lot, lol. They would get a kick out of it.
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