Product Details

• Actors: Tate Donovan, Ione Skye, Eric Stoltz, David Herman, William Mapother
• Directors: Sarah Kelly
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: ANCHOR BAY
• DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0010AN7MM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,132 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Lather Effect" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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LATHER EFFECT - DVD Movie

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the sharpest comedies around, January 25, 2008

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Louise Bagshawe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lather Effect (DVD)

This is a brilliant little film. Eric Stolz gives a blinding performance as the lead in what has been called a 'Big Chill' for 80's kids. It's the morning after a massive party, and the group of friends cleans house, revisting the previous night. It's pretty compelling if you're in your 20s-40s and wondering if you wound up with the right person, if life is set. The film manages to be bittersweet yet unpretentious and the script by Sarah Kelly and Tim Talbott is utterly hilarious. Wish there was a higher than five star rating.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't Quite Come Out from the Big Chill's Shadow, July 7, 2008

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Maggie Mae (Reno, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lather Effect (DVD)

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In only a few days Valinda (Connie Britton) has to turn over her family home to the new buyers, so she throws a whale of a party, inviting her high school pals, sort of a twenty year reunion. The movie opens the day after the party. The partygoers, for the most part, have left their spouses and children at home, as they've come to relive what once was, their high school past.

As the group nurses hangovers, while they're cleaning up the mess, they wax nostalgic and dredge up memories and secrets that maybe they shouldn't have, because they involve old hurts. They've never really grown up, these people, and now they are about to.

There's a super soundtrack and a super cast, including: Tate Donovan, Ione Sky and the great Eric Stoltz, but for some reason the movie didn't quite live up to the long shadow cast by the Big Chill, a shadow that effects all movies like this. Still it was okay, four stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The YAWN Effect, June 6, 2008

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1smileycat "1smileycat" (Iowa, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lather Effect (DVD)

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In reading the backside of the DVD, I was excited to watch The Lather Effect! Unfortunately, I was bored to tears throughout it.

This is about the day after a high school reunion party. They are all in their 30's now and they show up to the reunion as they used to look. Seems some of them came as they used to be as well - immature!

They wake up at a house that is torn apart, they are all nursing hangovers - or still drunk, and they reminisce about the way things were, what happened all those years ago, etc. They decide they need another night of the fun; which added up to pure boredom for me.

Being a 30-something myself, I really thought I would love this movie. But the music was the only thing I found myself enjoying.

The cast includes Tate Donovan, Ione Skye, Eric Stoltz, David Herman, William Mapother, Connie Britton, Peter Facinelli, Sarah Clarke, Caitlin Keats, Eric Haase, Dominic Kelly, and Sarah Kelly. The DVD also includes a commentary, a few featurettes, and deleted scenes.

I cannot recommend this movie. Unless of course you are trying to fall asleep.

- 1smileycat :-)