Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404911086
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404911081
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 26106
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 21, 1967
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After 17 years, married life has become predictable and stale for Richard and Barbara Harmon. After splitting up, they discover divorced life is even worse! Stars Emmy ® winner Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds!
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Rating:  - THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF INTELLIGENT COMEDY
I also agree that they should have the wide screen. Dick is excellent, and Debbie is OK. Being a comedy writer, I appreciate the outstanding script by Norman Lear. Very clever indeed! I like the part with all the divorced kids at one of the houses, with the poor little girl, with the SECURITY BLANKET, being left behind. Also very interesting, is the couple preparing for bed: how well they work together, even after a nasty fight. And don't forget the orchestra leader standing on top of the hill, waving his baton at all the fighting couples behow. A great movie!
Rating: - PLAYTIME American Style
Back in the day, as Dick van Dyke stumbled over a hassock in the Petrie living room week after week, somehow managing to rescue himself from ignominy and tumble right side up again, in triumph, the kids who watched him thought of him as their generation's version of Chaplin. He seemed to take these comparisons to heart, however, and how painful it was to see Van Dyke tackle serious roles, the kinds of parts they gave Jackie Gleason when he got the serious bug as well. It was horrible and, though we loved him deeply, that love only lasted for about a minute, replaced by a frantic indifference that sought to minimize even his obvious gifts. He had an easy way about him, and he seemed to break into song as easily as falling off a log: not such a simple gift, for many stars never got the hang of it, even Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, you watch them inhale uncertainly right before the music starts up on the soundtrack. They're panicking, and Van Dyke was always Mr. Cool, even when he wasn't cool. His attempts at "characterization" were always, like Olivier, built on some physical trick, like playing Caracactus Potts the inventor in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG with that unsightly squint, as though he were going blind instead of driving through the clouds. And yet the sincerity he brought to Potts, and to Bert in MARY POPPINS and to Albert in BYE BYE BIRDIE, though bland and unexceptional, guaranteed the success of those pictures. But in DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE the unexpected thing happens and Dick Van Dyke ... Read More
Rating:  - Gorgeous mid-20th century design spoiled by full frame release
This movie, besides being extremely well acted by all its stars (including the magnificent Jean Simmons in her mature prime) is also a beautifully designed and shot time capsule. What a shame that it was disrespected by a worthless "full frame" release.
Rating: - Divorce American Style
This is one of the funniest movies ever. It's a shame most people have not seen it. It's hilarious, and Jason Robards is a total crack up. I would recommend this movie to anyone. I bought it and watch it every couple of months. It's a classic 60s comedy.
Rating:  - Another modern classic chopped up in stupid standard screen!
Thank goodness Dick Van Dyke's brilliant Never A Dull Moment recently got the classy widescreen treatment it so richly deserved, but Divorce American Style? Nope! They threw it into the crummy standard screen bin, like it was a piece of trash!
I mean it only starred Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, was directed by Bud Yorkin, with Conrad Hall as the Director of Photography. So I guess the studio (Columbia/Tristar) just didn't think these people were GOOD enough to deserve a widescreen release!
I will gladly buy this DVD, because the theatrical version was GREAT, but only IF it ever comes out in its original widescreen aspect ratio. Continue to boycott all standard screen butcher jobs, everyone!
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