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The Night Before (Spanish) [VHS]

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This is a really funny, feel good movie with a happy ending. Lori Loughlin's character loses a bet with friends and has to take nerdy Winston Connelly (Keanu Reeves) as her prom date. Through a chain of events -- including getting lost, a broken down car, a bar in a bad neighborhood, a pimp, and the girl's policeman father -- they NEVER reach the prom at all. Winston proves to be a hero instead of a nerd and earns Lori's character's devotion by the end. Keanu Reeves is charming and not the airhead character he protrayed many times in his early career. He and Lori Loughlin have a nice chemistry.

It is known to many, that to find a good teen movie, you must look further than the video shelves of your local Video Hire. Sure, there is 'Pretty In Pink', 'The Breakfast Club' and more recently 'Get Over It', but they all rely on the love triangle's to boost thier plot. 'The Night Before' is different, not only in the conventional, but the unconventional. Creating laughs from the twisted love match of Reeves & Loughlin, the seedy going-ons that run the streets at night, to slapstick escapades that adorn the closing sequences. This is a must for any lover of films, or the Weird and Wonderful that fill studio backlists to the brim. Deleted in the UK, buy quick from America, a minor masterpiece of Hollywood legends.

Can't believe some studios foist full-screen hatchet jobs this late in the game. Especially this one, was looking forward to this finally coming out.

I watched this dvd on my lcd flat panel , and the picture is full of what i would call 'digital noise' meaning it has lots of 'micro' pixelation, especially in darker areas of the movie. Even the VHS version of this movie is better than this. Also it seems that it was transferred not from the master tapes, but from Vhs stockpile with bad digital noise at times. But since its finally on DVD , I'll take it, but I'm not very happy with the digital noise artifacts, it makes the movie look , almost cartoonish in darker areas. I'm hoping for a second better release (though i doubt it) and hopefully a blu ray release that is done right. I don't really mind that its full screen, that doesn't bother too much. I'm more concerned with the picture quality. Also there is no trailer for this movie, but trailers for other movies. Also the case it came in is very flimsy. It has that recycle logo hole on the case. I don't know if they want you to throw it out afterwards and recycle it. But the movie itself is one of my favorites of all time.

A contived plot but clearly done as light comedy with the lead actors having good chemistry and just enough give and take to be interesting throughout the adventure they share.

Cheesy, but still a cute and funny 80's flick, I just had to own. Love Keanu Reeve's dance scene- still makes me giggle.

I was happy to get my hands on The Night Before on dvd (My VHS Version is beat-up)
I have mixed thoughts on the DVD
Lionsgate has done such a Great job in the past on both DVD's & BR's
This dvd on the other hand is a Poor dvd Digital Transfer (The print looks worn I'd guess they took the VHS Version and transferred it to dvd) The 5.1 Audio is also a bit hinky
The trivia track is more of a lame gimmick (Why no Audio Commentary???)
This DVD would be fine if It was made 10-12yrs ago when The dvd Format first came out (But, Now to have such a Poor Official Copy is unacceptable
There are a number of Other Titles in there "Lost Collection" I'd like 2 add to my Collection but, after watching this dvd I'm not sure
Shame on Lionsgate for putting out Such a Bootleg/Poor DVD of a Great Rarely Seen Film
They dropped the ball on putting this out on dvd
The Film itself is so Good and over looked . I'd say it's one of the Best PG-13 of the 1980's!
I'm sure it gained a Cult type Following thanks to the VHS Era
Starring Two Young up and coming stars Keanu Reeves & Lori Loughlin
The two are both extremely good in it. They both play it straight in a Crazy Over-the top world!
The Music/Score also is top notch (Doesn't sound like a typical 1980's Movie) The Great King of Funk George Clinton wrote the Score
the score/music was and still to this day Fresh and ahead of it's time for a teen flick!
For those who have never seen it (which I'm sure is allot of people) It's a Must see Treasure
The Film itself 9.5/10
The DVD along with the Laserdisc are the only two Digital Copies
Hopefully this dvd gets word of mouth maybe One day A Studio will put out a Cleaned-up Special Edition
Cause this Film Deserves a Special Edition
It's a Odd Classic to say the least

Winston Connelly (Keanu Reeves) wakes up disheveled and with out any memory of what happened the night before. Evidently he was supposed to take a date (Lori Laughlin) to the prom and has misplaced her, misplaced his father's car. Now he is being told that he is to have a showdown with Tito (Trinidad Silva) on Bacon or rather Beacon Street at sunrise.

Watch for the obligatory car chase and Tara (Lori) is caught wearing an out dated tube top and a vinyl mini-skirt.

Now he must regain his memory and piece together events before sunrise. This has the feel of the movie "D.O.A."

Originally I got this great 80's comedy from an HD rip online, but this is just as good and with a decent cover. Sadly, like all of the "Lost Collection" series, it is in full screen and has a fake 5.1 soundtrack. For those who want to know, all of the "Lost Collection" films are supposed to be in 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. This is not true. Every channel sounds the same as track 3, which is all of the music, dialog and special effects mixed together. A perfect 5.1 DVD has music in the first channel, sound effects with some dialog in the second, everything mixed together in the third, track 4 is base, and the last two channels are for rear sounds, sometimes containing a clearer isolated music track. None of the "Lost Collection" discs are like this, making them fake 5.1 audio and that really hurts my view of Lionsgate. "The Night Before" is still a must-have comedy, but don't look for awesome sound or anamorphic widescreen.

I'm a fan of Keanu Reeves. He's the right person to fill this shy, backward, timid boy role. I like the premise of the movie. It really captures the spoof of the tug versus the clueless boy. Even though the violence was there this movie made me laugh almost all the way through.