Product Details

• Actors: Penn Jillette, Teller, Celia McGuire, David Patrick Kelly, Leonardo Cimino
• Directors: Arthur Penn
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: LORIMAR
• DVD Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003156IKM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,658 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "PENN AND TELLER GET KILLED" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Digital Dist Release Date: 06/20/2011

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe this movie was actually made., May 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Penn & Teller Get Killed [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Penn and Teller Get Killed is a bizzare, mind bending, dark, dark, dark, dark comedy from the comedy/magic team of Penn Gillette and Teller. Written by it's stars, this movie reaches levels of darkness even Hitchcock wouldn't dare to venture. And therin lies the comedic brilliance of Penn and Teller. This film gets better with each viewing. It's not for everyone, but if you are into dark comedies or just want to spend a couple of hours simultaniously laughing and scratching your head, then Penn and Teller Get Killed is the film for you.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars smile and the world wonders what you're smiling about, July 29, 2002

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Eve (stoke on trent, staffs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Penn & Teller Get Killed [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Where to begin? I'm always wary of giving movie reviews since so much is personal taste but here goes.
I won't tell you the story, the title pretty much gives it away however I will say I was impressed by the acting of them both not all TV & stage actors can make the transition.

I was especially impressed with Teller's physical acting, very savvy, the silent film stars would have been touched. Yes it's a dark and funny film, so was Dark Star (remember that one? Harold and Maude?), so were many of Hitchcock's it's no suprise to find Teller is a fan.
Sit back and enjoy Penn and Teller's world. N.B no sequel!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I want my DVD, September 24, 2009

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H. A. Green - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penn & Teller Get Killed [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Are we live? Yeah.

Crazy good. Beyond good. Mark Twain meets Patrick McGrath and they both have coffee at The Factory with Edie Sedgwick and Frederick Pohl and Luis Bunuel and then Thomas M. Disch (circa 1974) and Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) show up with glazed donuts good. No - glazed donuts AND crullers. That's how good this is.

Perhaps the best part is the Fan's home video, but the whole thing is purest grow-a-whole-new-brain good. Watch this and have mad new thoughts about public and private acts, illusion and reality, spectator and performer, celebrity and obscurity, fame and responsibility, envy and identity, and how they all gooshily bleed into each other. And just generally be entertained as hell.

But I want it on DVD! So will you; you'll want to watch holes in this thing, Eraserhead eighties hair or no Eraserhead eighties hair. I believe I acquired my copy the year it came out, and I still get that hair-raising chill that tells you you're in the presence of genius, real mythic dreamtime inspiration, every time I watch it. Like other masterpieces, it probably has more depth and meaning than the authors themselves were aware of at the time, and it reveals new levels every time you watch it.

But I'd really like it to be available on DVD.

A respectful request to P&T from a devoted (but not like in the movie) fan: it's not the fourteenth century, and it would make a lot of us very happy to see this on a medium that doesn't get all stretched out after four hundred viewings.

No hard feelings?