Product Details

• Actors: Sam Kelly, Lindsay Duncan, Janine Duvitski, Brenda Blethyn, Lesley Manville
• Directors: Mike Leigh
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• 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: Water Bearer Films, Inc
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2004
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00018D364
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,461 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Grown Ups" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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GROWN UPS - DVD Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent Mike Leigh film, February 9, 2002

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This review is from: Grown Ups [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie has gradually crept to the top of my Mike-Leigh favorites list. Overall it is a positive, sometimes funny, sometimes agonizing movie with a number of scenes and tics (the male neighbor's throat-clearing in particular) that stick in my mind. Philip Davis is a not-too-bright dishwasher married to Leslie Manville, the backbone of the marriage. The realistically-quirky people with whom they interact are Brenda Blethyn, her frequently-visiting sister who is going downhill slowly and painfully, two neighbors, and a friend of Manville. How the husband and wife deal with the strains caused by relatives and neighbors illumines the ultimate importance and strength of the nuclear family that Leigh has approached from different directions in Life is Sweet, Secrets and Lies, and even Meantime. The movie's modest scope is a large part of its offbeat charm.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grown Ups, July 6, 2007

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John Farr - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grown Ups (DVD)

This superbly acted film by English director Mike Leigh ("Naked") is a bleakly funny slice-of-life tale about two couples mired in somewhat depressing routines. Manville and Davis are delightfully dour as a bickering couple trying to decide whether or not to have a baby, while Kelly and Duncan's moribund, dysfunctional relationship is alternately hilarious and gut-wrenching to observe. But the film's greatest asset is Blethyn, whose showstopping meltdown on the Butchers' staircase is the work of a champion actress--one fully in touch with the depths of despair. "Grown Ups" is a sweetly madcap gem for the feeble-minded fussbudget in all of us.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply.....the best ever., October 2, 2004

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Woody "Smug UK chap with impeccable taste" (Suffolk, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grown Ups (DVD)

I don't want to sound like I'm patronising your reviewer 'displacedhuman' but I found his/her concise review of Mike Leighs GROWN UPS quite superb. I watched this play in disbelief in the late 1970s when it was first televised on the BBC. When they repeated it in the early 80s I taped it on Betamax (RIP)! Then when my Betamax recorder finally expired I had the tape transferred to VHS. This is without doubt, the funniest, darkest and most touching of all Mike Leighs films. All the actors are superb, but Brenda Blethyns performance is stratospheric. AT LAST it's on DVD !! Goodness knows what anyone who isn't British will make of it, but try it, you just might like it too.