Product Details

• Actors: John Cleese, Woody Harrelson, Rachael Leigh Cook
• Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Dej (Ingram)
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000ZG0E0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,460 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Scorched" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Indifferent plot, a fabulous set piece on western squalor, September 4, 2004

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A. Wolanow "areiel" (Las Vegas NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorched (DVD)

When I first saw Scorched, I had the same lackluster response to it as most of the other reviewers. I fully expected to forget it utterly, and was quite surprised to find that my thoughts kept returning to it. Eventually I was motivated to see it again and find out why, and the second time through I figured it out.

While the movie does only a tolerable job of telling a funny story and holding the viewer's attention, it delivers a devastatingly accurate rendition of the cultural wasteland that is the California-Arizona desert.

In the same way that Lost in Translation so exquisitely captures the feeling of working abroad on your own, Scorched captures the utterly sublime squalor of small desert towns. The setting is squalid, the things that happen in the plot are squalid, and above all, the characters are so delicisouly squalid.

Taken as a portrait rather than a story, this movie is a masterpiece.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars See it Several Times, February 8, 2007

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F. John Caldwell Jr. "John in Jersey" (Atlantic City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorched (DVD)

I loved this movie! The plot was pretty simple but the quirkiness made it really keep my interest. Note, for example, the shirts worn by the boy with the plane and Doleman. And what to heck is that on the boy's face? Also, watch Doleman's face during the opening credits. And watch the two "Monday" bank scenes closely. Notice any differences? Why was that scene filmed twice (other than the different character perspectives)? Oh yeah, see if anything strikes you as odd about the rubber arrow on Charles Merchant's face during his infomercial. These and other oddities that aren't tied to the plot make it clear that the director/writers/actors enjoyed making the movie which makes it fun to watch. I'd love to know where it was filmed and how accurate the bank temperature display was! It said 94 in the morning and 112 in the afternoon. Details that seem trivial are rarely in a film by accident so the quirks in this film help make it worth seeing a few times.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Witty Comedy, February 3, 2004

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J. Toney (..) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorched (DVD)

This is a great comedy of errors and luck. It has the same cinematic feel of Rat Race but without the cheesy politically correct ending.

All of the main characters are in some way tied to a bank. John Cleese is the ecentric millionare client that sells "How to Make Money in Real Estate" books on tape. Woody Harrelson is a strange dessert animal loving weirdo that wishes to avenge death of his duck's mother. If these two character breifs sound like something you normally like then you will definitely like this movie.