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• Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Michael Clarke Duncan
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00116GEJI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,614 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Slipstream" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rarety, March 3, 2009

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India S. Turner (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slipstream (DVD)

Slipstream is a rare kind of movie. Read the other reviews (not the 1 stars) if you want to get a fairly inclusive overview. What makes Slipstream so special is that it is experienced by the left brain as utter nonsense, but the right brain can catch on. It is possible to "get" this film without being able to say what you got. Isn't that delightful! The scenes are an indecipherable kaleidoscope that gave me a headache on my left side (true); there is a rhythm, rather than logic and a relatedness, rather than linear unfolding. Perhaps this film is even brilliant. If you can bear to be in a state of not-knowing, this movie can work for you. If you enjoy not knowing, if you enjoy not having complete control over your experience, you may thrill at this film. Early on, you'll realize that the "plot" is too complex for it to all come together at the end. So don't wait for it. Instead, let yourself enjoy your bafflement.

By leaving understanding entirely in our hands, the movie presents us with pure possibility. How often can we say that? Even though it was too violent for my taste, I felt exhilarated and inspired. What it left me with: Each of us is in a wildly individual, and often even significantly divergent, experience. What allows us to be related to another's experience is our ability to step out of our unique perspective and recognize the commonly held narrative in which we each have our own experience. I have no idea if the film delivered that or if my firing-furiously-at-novelty neurons invented it, but such is the wonder of this marvel, that I could be left with this delicious insight. What might you find?

The least of Slipstream's virtues are lighting, cinematography, editing that becomes a "character" and Hopkins' ability to get an excellent performance out of his actors. Bravo.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disjunction, desperation and alienation!, May 12, 2008

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slipstream (DVD)

The febrile and fevered mind of a sly screenwriter - Felix Bonhoeffer - is constantly baffled and besieged by personages of the fiction of a play he's writing for the big screen and his tormented past, when these characters intermingle themselves, and appear blended with his memories of the past, acquiring such dimensions of trueness that become a horrid nightmare of undecipherable horror in his alienated mind.

This film made remind to Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote a forceful but descriptive brief tale about "The memory of Shakespeare" (a superb and relatively unknown tale) in which describes the sharp physical tensions into a creative mind in process, as final outcome of a well coveted ambition of any writer. In this sense the sleeping process may work out either liberator device or alienation mechanism. And that's why Hopkins, smartly makes reference to this cult movie "The invasion of the body snatchers", which is (at least to my mind) the most pyramidal science fiction picture ever made in the Fifties. That interesting portrait about alien organisms, that masked into pods are capable to reproduce with absolute fidelity a human being after he has slept.

So these brief interludes of the suspended conscious or the pores of the infiniteness acquire life, being absolutely to distinguish in this ambivalence state what is reality and what `s unreal, will take over the mind of Felix leading to the last frontier of unexplored and even wasteland territories of our memory's labyrinths, carving once more in relief, the demons of the reason produce monsters."

Along the history of cinema, there have been other films that have remarked this process of sudden breakthrough of the reality and the fiction. Paul Wengerer started in 1913 with his anthological film "The student of Prague", in the middle twenties was Murnau with "The last man"; during the thirties "The blue angel", during the forties "Dead of night" ; in the fifties "The seven seal"; in the sixties "Shock corridor" and "Seconds" ; in the seventies "Catch 22" and "Someone flew into the cuckoo's nest" in the in the eighties "The stunt man", "Brazil" and "Altered states", while in the Nineties "Zentropa," "Twelve monkeys" and "Window to Paris."

So, this film is not an easy film to watch. You must keep in mind all these previous references, because otherwise you would be able to stand without understanding this disintegration hell.

A true masterwork!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible!, July 12, 2011

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Donna Alexander (GRANITE FALLS, WA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Slipstream (DVD)

I love Anthony Hopkins so I thought it was just going to be wonderful. I made myself watch the whole movie just for punishment and I took it out and threw it in the garbage right after it was done....wow that sucked.