Product Details

• Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Steven Keats
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: August 5, 2008
• Run Time: 157 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000Q6GUWK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,430 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 14-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This "Director's Cut" Is An Outrage, August 15, 2008

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J. Bryant - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut) (DVD)

For many years, I'd been hoping to see "The Executioner's Song" released on DVD. But now that it's finally available, the result is extremely disappointing.

A "director's cut" usually indicates that a movie has had footage ADDED to it. But Lawrence Schiller has done the unimaginable and ripped 50 minutes from his three-hour film! I mean, WHY? Did Schiller actually believe that anyone would be happy to see nearly one-third of "Executioner's Song" hacked away?!

For anyone who is familiar with this movie (either from the VHS version or broadcast viewings), watching Schiller's "director's cut" is a very frustrating experience since none of the many deleted scenes were superfluous to the film!

In addition, the total lack of any extras on this DVD is another big disappointment. I'd have gladly paid more to see a "making of" documentary or interviews with the principal actors (who are all still living 26 years after the production of this movie).

"The Executioner's Song" was one of the very best made-for-TV films of the 1980s and deserved far better than the cheap, hack-job of a DVD release it's gotten. I would advise a search for the VHS version--and then enjoy "The Executioner's Song" as it was meant to be seen.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS MOVIE WAS REALLY CUT!, August 15, 2008

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Terry L. King (TEXAS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut) (DVD)

I HAVE WAITED A LONG TIME FOR THIS MOVIE ON DVD,I WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTED.THEY DIDN'T JUST CUT THIS MOVIE THEY RAPED IT!A LOT OF THE GOOD SCENES HAVE BEEN CUT OUT,AFTER SEEING THE MINI-SERIES ON TV THIS CUT JUST DOESN'T DO IT FOR ME.I HOPE THEY COME OUT WITH AN UNCUT FULL VERSION OF THIS GREAT MOVIE.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I Want My Two Hours Back, October 3, 2008

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David S. Jenkins (On the Road) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut) (DVD)

I want my two hours back, the two hours of my life I wasted watching this abomination of a recut classic. How a director could savage and homogenize his greatest accomplishment is totally beyond me.

Put simply, the original was white hot in it's display of the sexual magnetism between the two exceedingly pitiful main characters - hot enough to be the work Tommy Lee Jones and Roseanne Arquette's future performances would forever be judged against.

But it isn't just the fleeting but heavenly sights of Ms. Arquette skirting in and out of the sheets that we're missing here. It's giant chunks of storytelling and character development.

Dumbed down and made safe as milk, a daring film made dull as dishwater.

Avoid at all costs. I mean it... if you see it at a yard sale for 49 cents, leave it on the pile with the broken 8 track player and the baby sneakers. Total rubbish.