Product Details

• Actors: James Stewart, Bette Davis, Melinda Dillon, John Harkins, Jacque Lynn Colton
• Directors: George Schaefer
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: InterGlobal Video
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0010XTXBI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,429 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This story about an elderly couple who start a large controversy when everyone learns they plan on committing suicide stars James Stewart as the retired Teddy Dwyer, and Betty Davis is his wife Mini Dwyer. When Mini learns she is terminally ill with a blood disease, the couple decide to end their lives peacefully, at the same time. Mini's mistake was to finally tell her daughter Ruda (Melinda Dillon), and from there, the news eventually leaks out and gets passed on to the media. Right of Way tries to balance precariously between a serious theme and a light-hearted couple, as Teddy continues engrossed in his books and Mini in her long-practiced art of making specialty dolls, with their housecats all around them.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bette Davis & James Stewart Have The Right Of Way, December 17, 2005

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Chris "Chris" (Leeds, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Right of Way (VHS Tape)

James Stewart & Bette Davis are together for the first time.

With over 170 films between them, 3 Oscars, 13 Oscar nominations and numerous awards from all over the world. Stewart and Davis are two of the screen's most distinguished performers.

In 'Right Of Way', Stewart and Davis play an elderly couple whose love and respect for each other is as fresh near the ends of their lives as it was at the start.

When a terminal illness strikes Mini (Davis). It is common sense and without regret that she and Teddy (Stewart) calmly decide to end their lives in what for them is an expression of love.

Their daughter is horrified and struggles to change her parents minds. Her good intentions backfire and the couple must fight for their Right Of Way.