Product Details

• Actors: Bette Davis, J. Ashley Hyman, David Huddleston, John Shea, Roy Dotrice
• Directors: Fielder Cook
• Writers: Allan Sloane, Joe Sparton
• Producers: Helen Baker, Lucy Jarvis
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 2
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: June 22, 1994
• Run Time: 200 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302325846
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,804 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A family's reunion to dysfunction, September 8, 2000

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[e-mail] (Atlanta GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Reunion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I remeber seeing this on TV when I was growning up, and I liked it. Davis is magnificient as the matriarch of a family with problems (which family doesn't!). She is at home in this New England setting, baking bread and stirring up trouble. She is desperately trying to keep her family together, despite their resistance. It is a good movie to watch as the weather gets colder, as I remeber the interior sets being cozy, and the exterior shots are gorgeous of the New England Fall. It is also a good film to watch before the holidays, to possibly examine your own family's issues, and how you would (or wouldn't) want to deal with them.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Family Reunion To Remember, December 17, 2005

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Chris "Chris" (Leeds, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Reunion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a terrific Miniseries made in 1981. Starring Bette Davis in one of her best roles of her long career.

In Family Reunion, the incomparable Bette Davis shines in one of her last roles of her illustrious career. Portraying a woman of conscience, she speaks of all that is noble about small town America and the value of family loyalties.

Bette Davis stars as Elizabeth Winfield, a feisty, New England school teacher, retiring after fifty years of educating children in the community which bears her name.

For her years of service, she is given an unlimited bus pass and sets out on a cross-country odyssey to heal old family feuds, not realizing she is being lured out of Winfield in a cunning plot by greedy shopping mall developers. She comes home in an attempt to stop the construction, armed with the moral integrity she has taught throughout her lifetime.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now out on cd, September 2, 2003

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mrmusicals "mrmusicals" (FLORIDA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Family Reunion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm leaving my original review below so people can laugh at it. This title is now out on DVD yip peee ). I've waited so long for this title to come out on an updated format. My VHS was coming apart before my eyes. I bought this dvd title here on amazon october 1,2011.

I bought the VHS movie in october of 1992 at TARGET for $27.98. The DVD is much better in so far of the quality of the picture. It has taken 19 years of waiting but it's out. THANKS SONY. MRMUSICALS

Why is this 1981 made for tv movie not yet on DVD?.There are other less then great titles that have come out in this forum but this movie seems to be elusive. I watch this VHS title around mid-november as the extrior shots are quite beautful. The house that Bette Davises character lived in is now a Holocaust museum in Glen Cove, NY. The scene where she is walking in to town is now a wildlife preserve. I hope and pray that some day this title will be released ON DVD, but I get tired of waiting for that date . THE PAHNTOM CHORUS BOY