Product Details

• Actors: Bette Midler, Val Avery, George Dickerson, Jack Elam, Benson Fong
• Directors: Sam Peckinpah
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (PCM Mono), Spanish (PCM Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00062IVJO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,008 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Jinxed!" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Hide your chips and hold onto your husbands! Bette Midler "is pure stardust" (The Village Voice) as a saucy and seductive lounge singer seeking better fortunes in this irresistible black comedy that deals in big laughs! Co-starring the "truly comic" (The New York Times) Rip Torn and the "darkly handsome and virile" (The Hollywood Reporter) Ken Wahl, Jinxed is "bubbling with wit and merriment" (The Village Voice)! After losing his latest card-dealing job in Tahoe, Willie Brodax (Wahl) moves to Reno to shake Harold (Torn), a gambler who's made a career of following him clear across Nevada. But their luck changes when Harold's wife (Midler) falls head-over-heels for WillieÂ...and deals him in on a madcap murder plot that'll have you doubling-down with laughter!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It Has Its Moments, March 21, 2006

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Brian Himes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jinxed! (DVD)

I had to give this film three stars just because I have such a soft spot for it. Yes, it's bad. Yes, the plot is thin. Yes, the movie can't decide what it wants to be...black comedy, romantic comedy or drama with a murder twist. Yes, there was no chemistry between Wahl and Midler. Yes, there was tons of back stage fighting between Wahl, Midler and the director.

However, the film does have its good points. Hear me out. The second half of the film (after Rip Thorn commits suicide) is laugh out loud funny. The tumble weed scene still cracks me up. The look on Midler's face after the weed hit her is priceless. The scene with Miss Nina is always a gas. And the line Midler shouts at the insurance man is still one of my all time favorite Midler lines ever. "Talk to my a**! My head's had enough!"

The film had the potential to be a really good black comedy. I've always wondered just what happened with this film. Outside of the whole in fighting between the principles. Something just didn't translate from script to screen. This film had to look better on paper. I'd love to see some of the deleted scenes to see if there was someway to piece together the rather disjointed plot. Maybe in the future some one will dig those up.

Anyway, the film is worth one viewing just for the second half. Not recmended for the average viewer, but if you're a Bette fan like me, then this movie is a must see. If just to see if what everyone says about it is true.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DVD Is MISSING the films Original Dolby Stereo Track!, January 15, 2005

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movie man "mrmonopoly" (Queens, ny United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jinxed! (DVD)

A note to all buyers of this DVD edition from MGM.
While the picture quality is better than the Vhs version and looks good but not great, the audio has a major problem.
This film was originally filmed with a Dolby Stereo 2.0 track but on this DVD the audio is just in 2.0 MONO!
The sound is horrible and flat.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great entertainment, December 28, 2004

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Joan Crawford "Jon" (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jinxed! (DVD)

Get out the popcorn and get your friends together for this one. Jinxed is the funny and cute story about a "jinxed" blackjack dealer Willie (Ken Wahl --HOT!!) who is being followed from job to job by a gambler (Rip Torn) and his wife (Midler), as they make money off him! Naturaly, Willie can't keep a job, until one day he meets up with Midler and they have some steamy love scenes and they fall in love. One problem--her husband is a possessive, abusive low-life who won't allow her to leave him. So Midler and Willie devise a scheme to murder her husband and run off together with his life insurance policy and gambling winnings! Not all goes according to plan, and there are some big surprises and laughs along the way.

This is one of those movies where everything is quite absurd, but lovable and fun just the same. The plot is actually quite clever and the performances are very good. Just a light, funny, so-bad-its-good movie that would be entertaining to just about anyone. Yeah, it was a flop, but that's part of its charm. Lighten up and enjoy it!