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The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders Director: William A. Graham Rating: Unrated Format: DVD
2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton, Tovah Feldshuh, Lee Purcell
  • Directors: William A. Graham
  • Writers: Bob Thomas, John Gay, Noah Dietrich
  • Producers: Herbert Hirschman, Paul Cameron, Roger Gimbel, Sudy Dostal
  • Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
  • DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002
  • Run Time: 215 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006LPC4
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,420 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
The legendary howard highes - from this beginnings as an eccentric young industrialist through his final shocking days as the worlds most bizarre billionaire. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Tommy Lee Jones Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Nr

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Rip-off, March 12, 2005
By K. Seamon (Armadale, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
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I was so glad to find this on DVD that I failed to read the customer reviews before I bought it. Big mistake. Many of the finer scenes that I remember from the mini-series are missing. The quality of the DVD is excellent, and the sound is good, but about HALF THE FILM IS MISSING!! Tommy Lee Jones was outstanding in the lead role, but it's hard to tell from this mess. What an awful shame to cripple the film this way, just to fit it on a single DVD. Have they never heard of double-sided DVDs? Hopefully, with the interest generate by Scorcese's new movie, someone will do a proper release of this very interesting telling of the Hughes story.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A major disappointment from original release on T.V., November 7, 2004
By ROCK GODD (MID-WEST, USA) - See all my reviews
TNT showed this a few years back and I recorded it to VHS without the commercials and I find myself watching that fuzzy old self-recorded VHS more than this DVD! They added a couple of meaningless scenes and removed many major and important ones. Watching this DVD after seeing the TV version (same applies to the VHS version) makes me feel sick! Wait till it comes around on TV and skip this one folks.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Robert Balaban, March 11, 2005
I was extremley disappointed in the movie a far cry from the first showing on TNT. Really cut up and hard to understand is there any way of buying the uncut version??????????????????????
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2.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Howard Hughes
Despite what the Amazon description reads this is NOT the full version of the TV mini-series, The Amazing Howard Hughes. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paul R. Hill

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but abridged, biography of Howard Hughes
Tommy Lee Jones, in one of his first starring roles, plays eccentric billionaire aviator/moviemaker Hughes in this abridged version of a TV miniseries released a year after Hughes... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Chris Lockwood

1.0 out of 5 stars SAD
I too was all so excited to see this on dvd and bought it without reading any reviews.I did not think I needed to because I saw the movie twice on TV and thought it was excellent... Read more
Published on June 9, 2007 by ALEX

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Factual and Mind Boggling! A+++
My dad asked for this, and of course, I bought it. I did not hesitate buying this version of Howard Hughes life (starring Tommy Lee Jones), due to the fact that I saw it aire on... Read more
Published on March 27, 2007 by Sassy Gammaw

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Acting , Sad Story
I expected to see more of the genius and contributions to aviation but this focuses less on his rise and more on his disfunction and fall. Read more
Published on January 6, 2007 by R. Evans

1.0 out of 5 stars Even Howard wasn't that secret
I taped the broadcast version on VHS years ago and purchased it when it was released on commercial cassette. Read more
Published on July 18, 2006 by JDW

5.0 out of 5 stars THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES
THIS IS A GOOD STORY THAT LEAVES SOME PARTS OUT. I GUESS THEY COULDN'T PUT IT ON THE DVD. EVERYONE CAN ACT AND THE STORY IS FINE. Read more
Published on March 10, 2006 by E. O. GAVIN

1.0 out of 5 stars Zero Stars -- Bait-and-switch
I bought this version and was ripped off. Out of the 215-minute movie, they deleted 40% of it. Critical parts of the story are missing. Read more
Published on January 3, 2005 by Ted Turner

1.0 out of 5 stars Short-changed
I saw the original miniseries on t.v. It was quite good. However, the vhs tape I recieved thru amazon.com was cut by 50% or more which totally ruined it. Read more
Published on June 23, 2004 by Edward Russell

4.0 out of 5 stars Short version
A good movie, but you get the short version on DVD (2 Hrs)
instead of 213 Minutes......
Published on April 15, 2004

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