Product Details

• Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Lila Kedrova
• Directors: Michael Hoffman
• Writers: Rupert Walters
• Producers: Andy Paterson, Mark Bentley, Rick Stevenson, Robert Redford
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Y878
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,875 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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53 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Genius Movie About Love, August 6, 2000

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Craig Vincent-Jones (Hollywood, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A masterpiece. One of the reasons for which film was made. It's one of the best two or three movies I've ever seen. Like other reviewers before me, I wish I could have seen it in the theater -- but it was never released in the US because there's a limited amount of frontal nudity from Patrick Dempsey (completely appropriate for the storyline). It's one of the travesties of censorship that those of us who are Americans couldn't see it in its first run. One of the background tales surrounding the movie is that producer Robert Redford wouldn't change it to accommodate purist restrictions. If you've ever been to Canada -- especially Quebec -- to do so would have undermined the complexity and integrity of the subject matter. As much as we missed thee, we applaud thee for fine art.

The story is one of love; one of the most beautiful that's ever been portrayed. Not only the love of lead character (played by Dempsey) with his college girlfriend, but the seduction of an understanding and non-judgmental family. His hormones drive him to Quebec City for a holiday vacation; his intended informs him almost immediately that she is no longer interested in the same way he is. He's stranded, but surrounded by a bevy of characters who cajole the eye, tickle the fancy, and illuminate the soul.

The story is a matriarchal one. The female characters rise to the surface, and the male characters find themselves treading water to get attention. All of them, though, female and male, provide us with extraordinary performances. While the male characters rapidly lost their positioning in the story, the actors who play them all provide such searing interpretations that you never question their influence. This is a film for male and female; gay and straight; young and old. It is a film for all of us.

There's Dempsey, who's muddled by the circumnabulations of a sisterly triumvirute determined to confuse the male species -- all of them beautiful, all of them sophisticated, all of them sensual. It's clear that mother and grandmother -- all of whom have inhabited the same palatial estate -- have taught their daughters well. The father -- an impotent (figuratively speaking), if not likable and courageous academic -- lends a backdrop of surrealism and humor.

The female characters are the start. The sisters show an upper hand from the beginning. Early on, their manipulations are charming, erotic, and never mean-spirited. Dempsey moves from one to the other, sampling all of the flavors of femininity and intellectualism. His final eye falls upon the heroic and astonishing Lila Kedrova -- who, as senile grandmother, unmasks the true meaning of humanity, emotion and adoration.

The final scenes are unequaled anywhere in filmdom. The most hardened of critics can't avoid shedding a tear, but only a tear of recognition and empathy. The end of the film may have you crying, but it also leaves you exhilirated, uplifted and enlivened. It is an experience that film can give you only rarely; one which matches the encounter of love, romaticism and emotional sacrifice.

Elements of the film are comedic, while others plunge to the heart-wrenching and soul-enhancing depths of drama and character development. Together it provides us with a funny, touching, and irreverant look at the beauty of familial, romantic and interpersonal relations. One cannot leave "Some Girls" without a register of the extraordinary cinematography it took to assemble this work of art: expansive shots of Quebec City in the midst of a snowy Winter; uncanny film renderings of rural, snowbound quartiers; interior positioning and illumination of character elements which are unrivaled; all of them bring a chill to our spine and warmth to our hearts. The film is several levels above most other celluloid endeavors.

You would be well advised to see, rent and buy "Some Girls". For me, it's one of the reasons you watch films. It's one of the ways you can learn from miraculous acting. It's a way to understand the reach of film and story-telling. It's an unparalleled pleasure, a delight, and a joy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Visually stunning and sweet film about romantic love, December 7, 2005

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D. Nelson (Bountiful, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Some Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I first encountered this film late one night on a cable channel. I wish I could have experienced it in a theatre. I am not a big fan of Patrick Dempsey, but I found this to be the best film he has been a part of.

Visually speaking, this is a unique movie to look at. Like most films by director Michael Hoffman, Some Girls utilizes unusual light and color design that permeate almost every frame of the picture. The unique locations, sets, a color further accentuate the eccentric characters featured in the story.

The film is careful mixture of eroticism and romantic love. Most of the film seems to be a character study of an eccentric family mixed with elements of comic reflief. The end of the film takes the viewer on an unexpected romantic turn, which is certainly mystical and satisfying.

The only big drawback about this movie is that it is available on VHS only. Someone please put this film on DVD!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wheres The DVD?, June 24, 2005

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Baldwin "alazmi" (KUWAIT,Sabahiya) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Girls [VHS] (VHS Tape)

So I heard 'tis a great ROMANTIC Movie but I haven't watch'd it yet,'Cause I don't wanna buy It on VHS,I'd like to have it on DVD,,Will it be released on DVD Soon? I've Patrick Dempsey's Collection except this ONE ..We Need it on DVD please.:)