Product Details

• Actors: George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Jay Fletcher, Hector Elizondo
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: United American Video
• DVD Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QW62
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,753 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Born to Win" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its not all that bad, July 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Born to Win (DVD)

DeNiro was only in the movie for a few moments but George Segal is the star and he gives a harrowing and brilliant performance as a hundred dollar a day heroin addict. The film is funny and sad unfortunately utterly truthful. This film forshadowed a whole generation of films about lost souls adrift in our blasted urban landscapes. Its a bit on the morbid side at first but will please you towards the beginning of the second half.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful filmmaking, April 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Born to Win [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There have been a number of "dope" films that have followed "Born To Win". None have been as searing, honest, funny, and profound as this one. The acting is superb, the writing brilliant, the direction first-rate. This is cinema at its best, powerful filmmaking. George Segals performance is as good as it gets. See it!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Sadly Neglected Film, March 30, 2001

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Gus Mauro "coolbrezze" (Brandon,mb) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Addict [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This little film from the early seventies stars major film star Robert De niro in a role I'm sure even he can't remember doing along with george segal who plays JJ a sucsessful hairdresser who's hooked on heroerin and runs afoul of the mob. So JJ is up to his neck in trouble when the cops use him to get the goods on a drug smuggler. Absorbing at times very well acted By segal in this somewhat twisted comedy/drama Best scene is when JJ & His friend are shooting up in a washroom in an abandon office floor JJ'S friend overdoses on what he thinks is heroin but instead it's battery acid laced inside the drug meant for JJ. A powerful scene displaying Segal at his efftictive moment in the film. A bittersweet film more regareded and appriciated today then it was first relased over twenty years ago.