Product Details

• Actors: Randy Quaid, Ally Sheedy
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 24, 2006
• Run Time: 179 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000C65YRQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,308 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

PARENTS--Meet the Laemles- and taste the terror in this black comedy, Dad's (Randy Quaid) got a great job, Mom (Mary Beth Hurt) hasall the modern conveniences a happy homemaker could ask for, and ten-year-old Michael (Brian Madorsky) has neat new friends and twoparents that kill him with kindness. They're the all-American family of 1954...with one small exception.

FEAR--Psychic Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) uses "second sight" to help the police track serial killers, but the horrifying visions that come with her work are becoming too much to hear. And now, Cayce faces a killer like no other. When she gazes into this mind- and finds him smiling back- she discovers that he not only shares her "sixth sense" but wields a power more awesome than her own.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the SPECS-They are both in WIDESCREEN!!!!, June 11, 2006

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G. Joseph Evans (Port Jefferson Station, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Carpet Double Feature: Fear/Parents (DVD)

I've been trying to get my hands on Parents on DVD for some time now and was very disapointed that the specs for this release state that they are presented in fullscreen. Someone didn't do their homework because I purchased it and they are WRONG. Both films are presented in Widescreen!!!!!!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT in full-screen, YAY, July 19, 2006

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Neely O'Hara (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Carpet Double Feature: Fear/Parents (DVD)

Just to chime in with the previous review--both movies are indeed widescreen, not full-screen. Even better, it's anamorphic widescreen (nice looking too.) Even the box states "Full-Screen Version, thankfully the specs are wrong. Much higher quality transfer than the original release of Parents a few years back.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark And Darker..., May 3, 2008

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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein "bigfootsalienbaby" (under the rubble) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Carpet Double Feature: Fear/Parents (DVD)

I bought this double feature for PARENTS, but thoroughly enjoyed FEAR as well. I love Ally Sheedy (Man's Best Friend) enough to watch her in just about anything! Her role as Cayce Bridges, well-known psychic and author, was a real treat. She has made a career out of using her mental powers to assist police departments in tracking down assailents and (hopefully) rescuing victims. The idea of a psychic helping the police catch criminals is nothing new, but having a serial killer use his own psychic abilities to torment Cayce is definitely different! The interaction between Cayce and the "Shadow Man" is tense and frightening, especially when he decides to go after Cayce for real, instead of just playing twisted games with her. No one is safe! PARENTS is a tremendously wicked, jet-black comedy set in 1950s suburbia. Randy Quaid (Independence Day) and Mary Beth Hurt are the Laemles. They move to a new town w/ their 10yo son, Michael. Dad works at TOXICO, where he works on chemical defoliating agents. Mom is a perfectly prim housewife, always working in the kitchen on new and exciting meat recipes. Michael has a hard time at home, due to his suspicions about dear mom and dad. What does dad REALLY do all day at work? What KIND of meat is mom preparing? Michael also has trouble at his new school, where he draws macabre pictures and says some very disturbing things to his teacher, Miss Baxter. This causes the chain-smoking, school social-worker (played wonderfully by Sandy Dennis) to get involved. The darkness and dread in PARENTS are perfectly in synch with the bleakest black humor I've seen since Dr. Strangelove! Bizarre, unsettling, and dreadfully funny, this movie is worth multiple viewings. I highly recommend this double bill... P.S.- Yep, both movies are in widescreen, even though the box says full screen! No complaints here...