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Oxford Blues

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This is a great, quintessential 80s movie, starring the never-aging Rob Lowe (Seriously, how does he do it?). It's not available on Amazon yet, but it just came out on WBshop.com in the archive section, if you're looking for it.
LATER POST: BUYER BEWARE!! So I bought and received my copy from WBShop's Archive Collection... It was an extremely disappointing purchase. I love the movie, but the quality of the entire product was poor and bootleg-looking. The package arrived unshrink-wrapped, with a broken case, the insert looks like it was made on a shoddy home printer, and the quality of the actual DVD-play is about the same as you'd see with a degraded VHS tape. When I called WB to ask why I'd been shipped a bootleg, the rep said this is how the Archive Collection is produced: a burned copy, not factory-reproduced. BUYER BEWARE!! I'd wait for a factory-produced and remastered edition, not the available one currently offered on WBshop...

My wife was curious why "Oxford Blues" was included with Warners Archive collection. She thought these films were reserved for old black-and-whites and not for something she had such a vivid recall for. I hate to break it to her but this flick is 25 years old and Rob Lowe is no longer gracing the cover of "Tiger Beat". When this film came out I was in college and naturally I didn't see it because I was dismissive of this narcissistic pretty boy. Most of the so-called Brat Pack drew the ire of elitists notably Lowe and Judd Nelson, but that's another story. Lowe got my grudging respect after an inspired guest hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live". Two sketches stood out, a wicked impersonation of Arsenio Hall (in white face no less) and another called "Helmet Head". Lowe also did a memorable turn in "Wayne's World" a few years later. As for the film it's a breezy entertainment about a self-absorbed Vegas stud(Lowe) who enrolls at Oxford to show up the upper crust and land the most desirable woman in the U.K., Lady Victoria(Amanda Pays) in the process learns about himself and the importance of teamwork. Lowe has a certain smarmy charm and Pays and Ally Sheedy represent the polar opposites of cuteness. There's a certain cool factor here with the presence of Michael Gough, Alfred the Butler in "Batman", and Aubrey Morris, Mr. Deltoid from "A Clockwork Orange" in the cast. This is a lightweight affair but not bad.

Isn't hard to be the new guy in town? Or in another country? That is how it was for Nick DeAngelo as he tried to fit in at Oxford. He worked at a casino in Las Vegas and he saw a beautiful woman that he noticed was famous. He grew hopelessly in love with this woman and vowed to follow her to Oxford. However, he soon learned that at Oxford, he was not part of the "in" crowd any longer. People were some of the worst snobs that Nick had ever known. But, he worked hard to make some friends including an American woman named Rona. And he was part of the rowing team.

I think someone should see this movie if they ever felt like they were snobbed in high school. Also, Rob Lowe's last scene during the credits where he puts on different clothes is really silly and great.

Made me want to go to Oxford, be on the rowing team and meet Lady Chatterly, alas I was too lazy so I just rented Lady Chatterly's Lovers over and over instead and got an education from the School of Life. Indirectly this movie lead me to other interests like english humor, Benny Hill, Dr. Who and a fascination with England in general. There was also a Mini Cooper in the first scenes that Rob drives his T-bird? thru the narrow streets of Oxford and I'm on my 3rd Mini Cooper.
Hard to believe that the chick (cougar) Rob's character fools around with in Vegas, is later a star trek Captin Janeway, with the same scratchy throat voice.

Great service. Fast shipping. I had an issue with the movie and the seller resolved immediately. Highly recommend this seller! Many thanks, Carol

HOW does Rob Lowe look exACTly the same as he did 20some years ago? Check out one of the sexier BratPacker movies, and tell me you don't play "spot-the-earlier-work-of-bigger-stars..." Cute boy-meets-girl/fish-outta-water/redemptive-loner/look-how-much-we-learned,-aren't-we-noble? mash-ups. A better-than-most example of cheesetastic 80's mindcandy. Which is a GOOD thing! Watch as part of a Sixteen Candles/Ferris Bueller...Breakfast Club/Oxford Blues Double Feature Weekend and tell me you don't sink back to a lighter, easier place. 80's Rule, lol!

For years I waited for this 1984 movie to be released on DVD and when it finally was made available "on demand" at Amazon.com I hesitated purchasing it. I heard some of those do not play well. Not my copy of Oxford Blues.

Growing up in a small British Commonwealth country I yearned for college education in England and Cambridge was my dream college. (Some thirty years later I entered graduate school in Chicago).

I rented Oxford Blues shortly after it played in theatres in the early 1980s. I loved it, and kept a VHS copy. Grad school went smoothly but there were days when I simply tired of evening studies after work and felt like throwing in the towel. Each time I felt that way I interrupted my studies and popped the VHS into the player to see glorious Oxford University, the rowing team, the debating society, the revered latin-speaking professor and, oh yes, the adventurous Nick De Angelo. And after each viewing I was motivated all over to pursue my heart's desire.

Oxford Blues is 5 stars all the way. It's great to be young!

The DVD arrived in good condition just as the company promised. It came in the amount of time promised. The quality doesn't compare with high definition movies that are made today, but it was still good quality. Age has caught up with me though. I thought this was such a great movie in my mid-twenties. Not as entertaining now. Not bad - I would just rate it average.
SO ... I am very pleased with the company and their service. The movie itself is ok.

Wanted to rehash a fav from my youth but was truely disappointed. This dvd copy only worked on a windows 7 dvd player. I sent the first copy back because I thought it was just damaged, but the second wouldn't play either. I then tried it on three over devices and only one worked (windows 7). I was VERY sad to have paid $19.95 for this inferior product plus shipping them back.

WOW!? Literally everything about this is awful. Ghetto bootleg-style 'archive' DVD transfer and packaging. Crap acting. Ludicrous story. The entire thing is so bad...

...that it's good. HOWEVER: it's only good if you, like me, are an aficianado of stupid 80s movies. I'm willing to look past the bad-everything to have the satisfaction of being able to play something on the DVD that reminds me fondly of high school sleepovers and my bygone sports days on the rowing team. That last part sounds made up, but it's true. Give in, people. Give in to Rob Lowe's cowboy boots and gelled hair.