Product Details

• Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Burl Ives, Eric Farr, Doris Day, John Wayne
• Directors: Mark Rappaport
• Format: 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
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Water Bearer Films, Inc
• DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000092T4R
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,281 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Review

One of the years TEN BEST. In a year that has seen teh emergence of a substantial gay cinema, Rappaport's effort remains the most audacious- an appropriation of Hudson's Hollywood films that reveals their hidden subtext. --Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune

Product Description

"It was all up there,"says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson's Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport's feature film "Rock Hudson's Home Movies". Employing narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the film invents an eclectic form of biography. The closer you look at Hudson's films the more you see the actor winking at us. An award winning blend of dozens of clips, "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" sheds new a new and provocative light on one of Hollywood's greatest legends.

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what the title implies, July 9, 2003

By	Charles S. Houser (Binghamton, NY) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This film covers in a limited sense what THE CELLULOID CLOSET covers more professionally and comprehensively. The title refers to the reel of gay and homoerotic scenes from Hudson's studio films that he compiled for showing to his friends at parties. There are no candid home movie clips (no shots of Rock by the pool, Rock and Tab Hunter playing croquet, or of anyone dressed in women's clothes). If you can surmount that disappointment, it should be noted that the studio clips are mostly of extremely poor quality (as if photographed from a tv screen). On top of that, the film has an amateurish quality (a not-very-similar-looking actor plays Rock speaking from the world beyond, sometimes with his image inserted into the frame with the real Rock Hudson). I'm sure for some viewers these qualities will give the film a sort of underground cult classic feeling and add to its appeal. I found such effects distracting and annoying. On top of this, there are no interesting new revelations about Hudson (or about a Hollywood lavender underworld). All stones were left unturned.

Even so, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES did make me appreciate the sheer number and variety of films Hudson made (westerns, war, Douglas Sirk melodramas, as well as the familiar, fluffy technicolor sex comedies with Doris Day). Not the best actor America ever produced, but certainly one the camera loved.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing look at Rock, November 28, 2005

By	D. Gardenier "gardillis" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Rock Hudson's Home Movies [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was the longest hour watching a movie that I've spent in a long time. First, it's not really home movies at all, but cuts from Rock's movies that he is presumed to have shown at home to his friends. There is a guy who plays Rock speaking in the first person, but this obvious fiction is set in a documentary style as if it all really happened. That seems unlikely -- I can't imagine Rock himself was ever this boring. You'd be much better off watching Rock's real movies and inferring the gay content for yourself. Save yourself an hour and skip this one.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars if there is less than one star, October 14, 2007

By	F. M. B. "fade" - See all my reviews

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To me, this movie is just rubbish; it's like one guy who did a home production movie. picking up scenes from Rock Hudson's movies and explains his fantasies over it, no true proof but an imagination and self point of views, no pictures of Rock in any suspicious situations at all, it's just rubbish. Sorry to say so but I was completely disappointed of what I saw. But after all rock will still be a symbol of masculinity. He's gone so don't messes up his past remember him as a golden age celebrity even though he's not pure because NOBODY IS PURE.