Product Details

• Actors: Peter O'Toole, Colin Firth, Marie Trintignant, Andréa Ferréol, Robert Stephens
• Directors: Otakar Votocek
• Writers: Otakar Votocek, Herman Koch
• Producers: Dick Maas, Laurens Geels
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: April 3, 2001
• Run Time: 116 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630293513X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,378 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Firth and O'Toole Are Worthy Adversaries, February 5, 2001

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carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wings of Fame [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm a huge Colin Firth fan and love Peter O'Toole as well. This film has a really original idea. Firth and O'Toole are both sent to a hotel in a place in the After Life that looks like the Riviera. You are allowed to stay there as long as you remain famous back on earth. Firth is famous for murdering O'Toole and O'Toole is exactly what he is in real life: a famous actor. There are no other souls who can check into this hotel besides the famous. The joke, of course, becomes that what do all of these self-centered, self-obsessed people do when there is no one else around to prop them up? There are no hangers-on or spouses in this place! You see a little bit of everyone here: artists, inventors, musicians, poets, shrinks and even Nazis from the past. It is really funny to see them deal with losing their fame. I really enjoyed the film and the writer certainly had an excellent sense of the surreal and absurd. My one complaint is that it is basically a one note, one joke movie and you may start tiring of it once you thoroughly are into its concept.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A comedy about death that works., August 28, 1999

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This review is from: Wings of Fame [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Peter O'toole & Colin Firth work wonderfully together as a famous movie star and his murderer who go to a hotel that COULD be the afterlife OR a "waiting room" to above or below. When Firth gets a 2nd chance at life, he reluctantly takes O'toole with him. The ending is surprisingly touching. Each character learns something about himself, and each seems to get exactly what he deserves. Excellent acting -- especially by Colin Firth.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rare gem many people never heard of!, August 30, 2004

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This review is from: Wings of Fame [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When I first watched it, back in 1990, this movie has amazed me by its grotesque, irony and sarcasm. Peter O'Toole's answer on the question what he thinks about the British cinema is priceless. I won't give away the answer, you should watch the movie. This little masterpiece instantly became my favorite movie ever. It is the one of those films you need to watch more than 1 time because every time you will definitely find something new in it. "Wings of Fame" is an absolute must-have for every O'Toole fan. It is an exceptional work and is definitely worth of a DVD treatment. Hopefully, Paramount will release it one day with some nice bonus features, and when it happens I will be the first on the line to buy it.