Product Details

• Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Bob Dishy
• Directors: Beeban Kidron
• Writers: Todd Graff
• Producers: Lloyd Levin, Michael Barnathan, Peggy Rajski, Todd Graff
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302731240
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,525 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ,Warm and touching movie even for a GUY, April 29, 2005

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Gery D. Dangelo "Gery" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Used People [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When is this title comming out on DVD? With all the junk out there comming out 2 days after it's final movie runs, why can't they release this future classic on DVD. So well written, funny, sad, heart warming all at the same time. There are very few movies that can make you feel this many emotions all in one movie. I have the VHS version but would LOVE the DVD if it ever comes out. If you liked this movie, please rally for it's release on DVD by indicating it in your review. Thanks

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I WANT MY DVD!, August 12, 2005

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Helen "Helen Van Patton Patterson" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Used People [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Touching, romantic, comedic, satiric, sad...and that's just Marsha Gay Harden's character! THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE RELEASED ON DVD NOW!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring Movie, November 26, 2005

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M. E. Wood "Content Writer and Reviewer" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Used People [VHS] (VHS Tape)

At her husband's funeral, a Jewish woman (Shirley MacLaine) is approached by an Italian man (Marcello Mastroianni). After offering his condolences he asks her on a date. She accepts just to shock her sister and mother-in-law who are watching over her with their instructions of what she can and cannot do. On their first date, for coffee, she learns that 25 years ago her husband was going to leave her but was talked out of it by the man who sits before her. He's waited all this time for her to be free. She doesn't know how to deal with information so she deserts him. He's not easily discouraged and positions himself in her life affecting both her and the members of her family.

This story is about life after death and how the death of a loved one affects those left behind; in particular, the wife and her two daughters and their children. Shirley MacLaine is excellent as the bitter widow who laid down her life for her husband and children and now that her husband is gone and her children are grown and on their own she isn't too sure what to do with herself.

Kathy Bates plays an overweight waitress with two children of her own and wears her pain on her sleeve while her Marcia Gay Harden plays her sister, a bank clerk who dresses up like different movie stars to cover up her pain. Marcia makes a hot Marilyn Monroe and Anne Bancroft. She has a son who things he's Superman and is grieving over another child that died. Both women gave stellar performances.

The costumes, food, funeral, wedding and family dinners are just window dressing for this gripping story about coming to terms with aging and the loneliness associated with both loss of love and loss of who they use to be. But it's also a celebration of the time remaining and finding a reason to celebrate each day. It was longish in parts and sometimes it was hard to understand what Mastroianni was saying but overall an inspiring movie.