Product Details

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart
• Directors: Neal Israel
• Writers: Neal Israel, Bob Israel, Pat Proft
• Producers: Bob Israel, Gautam Das, Joe Roth, Raju Patel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 7, 1997
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301697308
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,237 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Bachelor Party may not be the first trashy sex comedy, but it is perhaps the definitive trashy sex comedy. The movie makes its first breast joke before the opening credits have even finished. A cheerful school bus driver (Tom Hanks) has somehow gotten engaged to a lovely young heiress, much to the chagrin of her family and vengeful ex-boyfriend. The bus driver's roustabout friends decide to throw him a bachelor party--and you can pretty much guess the rest: scantily clad hookers, rampant drug use, bad 1980s new-wave music, really bad 1980s fashions, full frontal nudity (curiously, due to a scene in a Chippendales strip club, there's almost as much male flesh on display as female), bestiality, racial stereotypes, blackmail, attempted suicide, all played for unrepentant cheap laughs. Throughout, Tom Hanks floats along with a carefree (if slightly sheepish) grin, projecting such an air of impish innocence that it's hard to be offended by any of it. And it all ends in a wedding, just like a Shakespearean comedy. Also featuring the blinding white teeth and big hair of Tawny Kitaen (playing the good girl Hanks marries), buxom scream queen Monique Gabrielle, and Adrian Zmed, whose career has not fared as well as Hanks's. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now this is a bachelor party!, May 13, 2006

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ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bachelor Party (DVD)

Bachelor Party starring Tom Hanks is so funny, so original, and so mind-numbingly silly, you too will be laughing like a hyenna. I love this film so much, I can't believe my mom let me watch this semi-dirty film when I was little, what was she thinking? Hanks is great as always, I love his physical comedy, what a genius he is. Bachelor Party is probably the only film about a Bachelor Party gone array. There are some naughty scenes but nothing too grotesque occurs. Love it, love it, love it. Such a guilty pleasure, don't miss this classic gem.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everything an 80's movie needs:, October 3, 2003

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"londonevan" (london) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bachelor Party (DVD)

"...a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze." add in brief nudity, a likeable Tom Hanks, and 80's goddess Tawny Kitaen and you have the complete 80's movie.
The plot is simple enough: Man getting married, buddies throw him a bachelor party. Throw in some stuck up in-laws, a ex-boyfriend trying to sabotage the wedding, a wiener on a bun, a roomfull of hookers and a dead donkey, and you've pretty much got all an 80's comedy could want.
The only thing this movie does lack is a strong supporting cast. Lead by Jay O'Neil (Adrian Zmed) "I wish I had someone I could really respect. Hey, Look at the cans on that bimbo." and including the "party animal," "surfer dude," "lovable loser," and "doctor" brother, the bachelor boys have their moments but no one truly stands out. All this movie needed was an Al Czervik, or John Blutarsky to turn it into one of the top comedies of the decade. Still, all in all it's a good laugh.

Gary: Are you the pimp?
Pimp: Yes.
Gary: You look like Ghandi!
Pimp: I've got girls to sit on your face.

4/5 Stars

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chicks and Guns and Firetrucks and Hookers !!, June 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bachelor Party [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Man they sure don't make comedies like this anymore. This was when Tom Hanks was at the top of his game and not some bigshot Hollywood sellout actor. This flick has all you need in a movie, strippers, hookers, a donkey, a school bus crashing into a movie theatre, fist fights, drunkeness, a guy shooting a crossbow, a naked dude falling out of a hotel window, drug usage, attempted suicide, car theft, a pimp from India, a Lesbian scene, Tawny Katean (pre implants), a woman that pees standing up and not to mention one hell'uva a big Bachelor party. Buy this movie or "Milt will come for you !"