Product Details

• Actors: Barbara Eden, Ronny Cox, Nanette Fabray, Louis Nye, Audrey Christie
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 7, 1995
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630214888X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,947 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was SHOCKING for its time Right Tame now but Funny!, February 16, 2003

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THE AUTISTIC WEREWOLF "Wolf D." (Baltimore, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Harper Valley P.T.A. [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is effectively a story about a nice widowed fast city woman, with painted lips and long tapering lashes wearing short short mini skirts. This vamp and vixen moves to a quiet way conservative sleepy town named Harper Valley. She dares to join the PTA that bastion of moral rectitude. Her outspoken progressive ways are immediately held suspect. She in her short skirts is proclaimed by Harper Valley PTA a vile role model for young people. She is labelled by the PTA as a person not fit to shape the minds of impressionable youth.

She is in truth a good woman of honest if not pure motives and unsullied honor. The town would have you think she was the devils agent...P> The song of the same name tends to tell the story of the movie but its still well worth the watching. It's more funny now than shocking....

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars cute fluff-ball comedy, December 19, 2005

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harper Valley P.T.A. (DVD)

HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. is a cute comedy, based on the chart-topping country song from Jeannie C. Riley (written by Tom T. Hall).

Barbara Eden plays the vivacious Mrs Stella Johnson, who walks to the beat of her own drum, much to the horror of her strait-laced neighbours and the members of the Harper Valley P.T.A. One afternoon Stella's daughter Dee (Susan Swift) comes home from school with a letter from the secretary of the P.T.A. which threatens to expell Dee if Stella does not conform. Stella and her wacky best friend Alice (Nanette Fabray) decide that a little revenge is on the cards...!

This film is very much a one-note caper comedy, but the performances of Barbara Eden and Nanette Fabray are so wonderful that they greatly enliven the limitations of the material. Susan Swift is lovely as Dee, and the formidable president of the P.T.A. is played by Audrey Christie in her best fashion. Also featuring Louis Nye, Ronny Cox, Pat Paulsen and John Fiedler.

HBO's new DVD release contains a crisp anamorphic print.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A HILARIOUS COMEDY ABOUT SMALL TOWN HYPOCRITES, May 26, 1999

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This review is from: Harper Valley Pta [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the funniest comedies I have EVER seen. The main characters Barbara Eden and Nannett Fabray engage in hyjinks that would, in real life land them just one place, jail. As usual, Barbara Eden is not going to be pushed around by the hypocrites on the school board. She first points out their own "sins" in front of the villagers and then she and Nannette take advantage of all their failings & subject them to hyjinks that would make your skin crawl. Eventually she runs for head of the school board. A great movie which I believe won the golden globe award.