Product Details

• Actors: John Mahoney, Marsha Mason, Stacy Edwards, Charles Durning, Kelly Connell
• Directors: Ron Lagomarsino
• Writers: Donald Ogden Stewart, Edna Ferber, Frances Marion, George S. Kaufman, Herman J. Mankiewicz
• Format: Color, EP, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630164851X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,997 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WHAT were they thinking?, October 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dinner at Eight [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Whoever took it into his mind to do a TV-movie version of the classic 1933 Dinner at Eight should be lashed until he faints. Badly-cast and ineptly re-written, this horror is actually painful to behold. If this is the only version of Dinner at Eight your video store has, then for goodness sake just read a book tonight. END

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Witless, charmless, unimpressive. Except for Hamlin's abs., October 5, 2001

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Josie Davis (Fort Worth, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinner at Eight [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Truly awful, this. Bacall has all the subtlety and comic timing of...well, Lauren Bacall when miscast and misdirected. John Mahoney has some redeeming moments, and Harry Hamlin (in the John Barrymore role) isn't really half-bad; once you accept that his character would do shirtless stomach crunches to impress his young girlfriend. (Sure, Barrymore was brilliantly hammy...but never beefcake. Nobody ever asked to see HIS abs.) All in all, an embarrassment that isn't even Bad Campy Fun. It's just Bad.