Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mti Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006FDFN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #508,965 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No action; all story, January 27, 2003

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Robert (PETOSKEY, MI, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lakeboat (DVD)

I couldn't disagree more with previous review.
I enjoyed this film very much. There is a great story about a college student who ships out for the summer aboard an ore carrier on Lake Michigan.
The crew members he meets, and learns life lessons from are wonderful cast of real "characters" played by some great actors.
The reoccuring story about what really happened to the missing crew member is fun as well.
Not and action packed film, but a great addition to any David Mamet film collection.
By the way Ebert gave this film 3 stars. And wished this film had been made at the time he taught a class on Mamet and his films.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, December 5, 2007

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Belletiane - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lakeboat (DVD)

You enter this closed world aboard an almost phantom ship like secret corners of life composed of solitude, memory, inner yearnings and the desire to be remembered even if only for having imparted the trick of removing fingerprints from stainless steel.
The offerings of some part of themselves to take to another life of which they know nothing to someone who listened, who said yes, or I understand, the romantized stories about a missing crew member of this back and forth across the lake of people embedded in lives they unendlingly explain in the gestures that compose their lives is haunting, touching and often pure poetry.
The actors are breath-taking and the directing so beautifully done as to be almost invisible.
I love this film.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DVD info only, March 23, 2005

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Charles Burgess (sunny FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lakeboat (DVD)

Re the DVD itself, not the film:
* Pan and scan only
* No close captioning
* Subtitles in Spanish only
Great movie, not the best DVD.