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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 9781588177889
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588177882
Label: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 16528
Studio: Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 28, 2000
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Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) and Danny DeVito (Get Shorty) star in this humorous story of three industrial lubricant salesmen at a convention where anything can happen and their careers can be made or ruined on a handshake. Now with their futures on the line they must put their trust in a greenhorn sales rep (Peter Facinelli) as they pursue the ultimate sale The Big Kahuna.System Requirements:Starring Danny DeVito Kevin Spacey Paul Dawson Peter Facinelli Directed by John Swanbeck Running time: 90 minutes Copyright Lion's Gate 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 031398833529 Manufacturer No: 71639
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Two salesmen (Danny DeVito and Oscar winner Kevin Spacey) and a company researcher (Peter Facinelli) set up shop in a hotel suite in Wichita, Kansas, on a business trip. They hope to sell their particular brand of industrial lubricants to the elusive Mr. Fuller. Spacey and DeVito are seasoned pros, while Facinelli is excited about his first business trip. DeVito is going through some kind of mid-life crisis; Spacey is all about the sale and little else; and the new kid is naive, moral, and extremely religious. Once the characters are established, nothing much happens. They talk. They prepare for their sales party, and they talk. The event starts, but the movie quickly cuts to the mess in the room afterward so they can talk about what happened during the party. Even when Facinelli is given an invite to hang out with Mr. Fuller at a private party, the camera stays behind in the hotel room to listen to Spacey and DeVito talk. Talk talk talk. Based on the play by Roger Rueff, who also wrote the screenplay, The Big Kahuna never really feels like a movie, probably because it's all talk and no story, set in a hospitality suite that increasingly feels like a prison. --Andy Spletzer
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Rating:  - One of the most underrated movies of all time; a true masterpiece!
This brilliant film was overlooked by pretty much everyone and this is a shame because it happens to be one of the most thought provoking movies of the last 20 years. In this day of huge, bloated budgets and more and more computer generated graphics, it's refreshing to see a movie about real people who talk like regular, everyday individuals who are going through trials and triumphs like the rest of the world. All of the three main actors give fine performances as well, but the stand out is Danny DeVito in what is arguably his best performance of his career.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who likes to watch quality movies that deal with subjects that are relevant to our society.
Rating: - The Big Kahuna
For any fan of Kevin Spacey this is a must see film. As a chamber piece it it snaps with excellent performances from all actors. As our characters come more and more sharply into focus the push and pull between the sense of doom or triumph becomes less and less about the achievement of their business gaols and more about their own self discovery, and how they will share these insights with each other. A must see for fans of films that focus on great dialog as apposed to action and FX.
Rating: - Perfect casting!
This adaptation of Roger Rueff's play does not add more action just because it is in movie format. While not an action/adventure flick, this movie packs some really dramatic interactions. Three men on a business trip, all with complicated inner issues, try to focus on their sales objective, which is to land the "Big Kahuna" as new account. The casting of this movie was inspired. Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, and Peter Facinelli work well together and ring true as the characters they play. Wonderful movie!
Rating: - One of the best movies ever made!
For a movie that basically takes place in a hotel room the entire time this movie is great in every since of the word. I can relate to each of the three characters in this movie especially Kevin and Danny's roles.
Rating:  - How Suite It Ain't
As a rule, I enjoy films based on plays because they frequently retain the discipline of theatre and avoid the cheap, sleazy, lazy, and gratuitous attention-getting devices for which movies are so well known. These pictures often boast well-developed characters, evolving situations that reveal complex motives, thereby building drama, and carefully hewn dialogue. The Big Kahuna, sadly, is a horse of another color - like Glengarry Glen Ross without the edge, energy, and exquisite contrapuntal timing.
Roger Rueff wrote the play, and the screenplay, Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey star, Spacey also gets credit for production. Peter Facinelli rounds out this threesome of industrial lubricant reps holed up in yet another gruesome hospitality suite, desperately hoping to score. DeVito and Spacey are both terrific actors, and they make wonderful foils for each other, so, on paper it looks promising.
The Spacey character is most central; consequently, his flaws draw the movie down most obviously. Spacey is simply too cynical, bitter, and hollow to be interesting; he's toxic. DeVito, by contrast, is living in a gentle state of benign despair, toying with suicide the way a child might tease a scab. The Facinelli character is truly cardboard, a symbol - young, idealistic, and a born-again Christian who radiates mindless idealism.
For Rueff, this is a concept play, with a didactic agenda. By showing two worlds colliding, crass commercialism and intense religious faith, ... Read More
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