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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936209433
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 48114
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1990
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Description:
Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman -- DRAGNET, TOOTSIE) is a successful, wealthy businessman who has given his family the easy life. Now, as young adults, none of the kids are in any hurry to leave the cushy lifestyle they enjoy at home. But McBain knows best. Or so he thinks! To the surprise of his wife (Joanna Cassidy -- WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT) he kicks the kids out into a dilapidated tenement hoping they'll discover responsibility for themselves. But the table turns when McBain's business goes under and he and his wife must move in with their offbeat offspring! Now the McBain family must once again learn to live together, an experience that teaches them where their real family fortunes lie!
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Rating:  - Great Stuff!!!
This is one of Uma Thurman's first films. It's a heartwarming story story of familial relationships during good times and bad. The art is one of the things that make this interesting viewing, and the cast is excellent.
Rating:  - Lighthearted
This is a wide screen edition with no extras on the disc. The regular network stations used to play this movie on weekends when I was a kid. It is a wonderful light hearted film about a group of spoiled rich kids getting kicked out and trying to make it on their own. It is in no way a serious, true to life film. More like a fanciful fairytale that naturally has a happy ending. The cast of characters and the range of artistic individuals is what makes this movie special to me. It seems to center around the creation and compilation of the groups artistic talents. The fashion designer prentending to be gay so he gets "taken seriously" is one colorful piece. And the crowning glory is the massive murals that one young artist creates and photographs for a calendar project. Her murals combine wall paintings, painting on the human body, and props to create an awesome finished product. I love just skipping to the murals in the movie....it is inspiring.
Rating:  - Does Father Know Best After All?
The beginning of this flick reminded me of the play "Lost In Yonkers" with the exception that these young people were all from an upper class (status wise) family and had exceptional, individualistic talents. Christopher Plummer, long a favorite of mine, was just plain silly as the old magician. But we won't dwell on that. If you find that something you thought you really, really wanted no longer seems to desirable, this is the day to admit that to yourself and let the old dream go. That was the whole premise of this story.
Many people paint illusions and live in unreality, but these beatnicks of rare abilities are strange being, lost souls. The father who knows best is a master at demolition of old buildings and finds one where he transplants his weirdly-talented offspring to fend for themselves. The sisters made risque films and accumulated tenants who lived there in the tenement free if they participated in the montage for a calender, one you would never believe or expect from such a high-class background as these two girls. The young man is a computer whiz who develops his own games online and helps out with the charade when needed.
On the dance floor, "I've forgotten the steps.' "Your head has, but your heart hasn't." We never forget the music we loved or which helped us to grow up alone or with a large family; music is what soothes the soul when it needs balm. Who stopped the music, one asked; the father declared, "I did." And he paid for it bigtime. Stewart ... Read More
Rating:  - WHERE THE HEART IS
Disappointing- as a Boorman admirer I had expected to enjoy it, but found it flat and stagey. The dated, hammy acting style seemed intentional but the intention was obscure. The arty visuals however were marvellous
Rating:  - I hope you appreciate the things I do for you, David Hewlett
The blurb on the back of this DVD made it sound kind of appealing: rich dad kicks his spoiled-rotten kids out of the house and into a "historic building" in order to force them to become adults. Unfortunately, the film turned out to be nearly unwatchable; pretty much every performance is over the top, the situations are more absurd than comedic, and it's difficult to actually care about any of the characters, they're so irritating. Though our fledgling grown-ups constantly fret about money, they don't actually seem to have any problems finding it, considering that they're able to paint their house, buy food, and do pretty much all of the things that you really don't do when you're living in poverty. And unfortunately there's not enough depth to any of these characters to make you believe them as real people, much less care what happens to them.
The only people who stand out in this film -- and by "stand out" I mean that they delivered performances which were not 100% overblown 100% of the time -- were David Hewlett and Crispin Glover. I've seen both do tremendous work elsewhere, but unfortunately with this script and this cast, neither is able to really shine.
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