Product Details

• Actors: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Kellie Overbey
• Directors: Martin Campbell
• Writers: James Hicks, Jeff Burkhart
• Producers: David Bombyk, J. David Williams, Renée Missel, Stuart Benjamin, Taylor Hackford
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: December 14, 1993
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302283604
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,827 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Defenseless [VHS]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What the..........., December 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Defenseless (DVD)

I loved the movie, but the DVD is EDITED. There were several scenes that have been edited (I am assuming for nudity and content since the film revolves around a porn set).
I don't really have a problem with the nudity, but there were several scenes that were crucial to the story...especially right before the murder takes place (it is something Barbara Hershey finds in her boyfriends office. On video, you see what she sees, in the DVD you don't....if I wanted an edited film, I would have watched it on the Lifetime Network.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars EDITED version but still watchable (barely)., February 17, 2007

By 

M. Immel (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Defenseless (DVD)

I recently purchased this DVD and after watching it I felt like I had just watched a television edit of this movie. I got online and did some searching for the specs of the VHS version and it turns out that this DVD version has some 14 minutes of footage removed. The original movie is 106 minutes and this DVD is 92 minutes (NOT 106 minutes like it says on this website). It even has printed on the DVD box that it has an R rating. The movie as it is on this DVD could easily get a PG-13 rating or maybe pass as a PG rated film. If you are in fact looking for a heavily cleaned up version of this film, this release might be your ticket. But, if you think by ordering this you're getting the R rated thriller that you remember, think again, this DVD edition is the watered down TV edit.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lots of screen time for Hershey, March 2, 2001

By 

Eric Krupin (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Defenseless [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the scandalously few top billings in Barbara Hershey's career. As such, the iron-stomached film viewer will at least get to enjoy lots of BH screen time for his suffering. Other than that, not much.

Irrelevant but amusing: I read somewhere that during the filming of this movie Sam Shepard would whine every time he had to do anything involving the least bit of action. (Jackie Chan heroics are not involved, you understand.) What a wussy!