Product Details

• Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: September 11, 2001
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005LOKP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,768 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Geriatric Goodfellas, October 30, 2001

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Mike King "Mike Vegas King" (Taunton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Crew (DVD)

"The Crew" is comprised of Richard Dreyfuss (Bobby), the brains of the outfit, Burt Reynolds (Bats), the hot-tempered muscle, Seymour Cassel (Mouth), the quiet ladies man and Dan Hedaya, who plays "The Brick." He's not stupid but, as Dan says in his interview segment, "I guess his thought process is a little different from most people." The movie starts out with a flashback of them as four young wiseguys pulling a job, then flashes forward to them as four old men sitting on a porch. Bat turns to Bobby and complains, "You said the good times were gonna last forever." Bobby replies, "I thought we'd be dead by now!" The story concerns them trying to save their rundown, Miami Beach apartment house (the Raj Mahal) from going condo. Each of their schemes backfires and gets them further into trouble with the local drug lord and the police. The plot twists hold one's interest throughout the film, but the quirky lead characters really carry this picture. "The Crew" is a movie that proves that Mafioso are people too!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Watch them do their stuff!, May 10, 2004

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Crew [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie was not a box office hit when it was released just a few months ago, but dreams do sometimes come true.

Starting in New Jersey in 1968, we follow the lives of four 'has-been' gangsters. Now retired and living peaceably in The Raj Mahal in Miami Beach, they attempt to make one last heist. So as not to be evicted (who wants to be homeless?) from this run-down hotel, they plot a way to save their special home. Look for the pink ostrich.

Burt Reynolds looks good as an old man and is funny like in those 'Bandit' movies. Richard Dreyfuss who won an Academy Award for his role in THE GOODBYE GIRL and was great in MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS (I loved that music!) showed his winning style. Seymour Cassel who was in Bill Murray's RUSHMORE and Dan Hedaya (Detective Jack in SHAFT), round out the foursome.

When you need a laugh, rent this one from the local video store (better yet, buy it here at Amazon.com), sit back and enjoy. If you liked GRUMPY OLD MEN, you'll love these "grandfatherly gangsters" who are not quite 'over the hill' yet. Stephen Iervolino compared this film ro 'GoodFellas' in LAUNCH. This parody is better than either or both/and in a class all its own.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rude, Crude but VERY Funny!, February 21, 2001

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Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Crew [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very amusing film about four mobsters who end up in a Florida retirement home but find it boring so they set out to find jobs, fun and women. It is very slapstick at times, often rude, sometimes violent but always funny. Dreyfuss is great as the Hit-Man with a heart who watches his now grown daughter from afar as she strives to make it as a cop in the big bad world and Burt Reynolds is a hoot as the man who is always having to be resuscitated after nearly drowning, one time in a toilet, courtesy of Dreyfuss. It is slow moving film at first but it picks up its pace fairly quickly and you will laugh and chortle at all the ridiculous capers the four men get up to, including driving a South American Drug Lord nuts as they accidentally get in his way whilst he is trying to organize a big delivery of Class A drugs. The final action scene is hilarious when Dreyfuss and two of his companions call in their old Wise-Guy comrades who have all retired (one is even in a wheelchair and on oxygen!) to go to the rescue of their fourth friend, along with Dreyfus's daughter, his girlfriend and her stepmother. Well worth watching despite what other critics say to the contrary!