Product Details

• Actors: Mary Kay Place, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Dean Silvers, Marlen Hecht
• Directors: Lisa Krueger
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 20, 2004
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000WN15O
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,935 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy. Mary Kay Place, Scarlett Johansson and Aleksa Palladino star in this breakthrough drama that received four Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT, GREAT MOVIE WITH THE EXCELLENT MARY KAY PLACE.., September 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Manny & Lo [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Manny and Lo is another good argument for Independent movies. The characters are like every day people. They do really messed up things but are basically very good people, just like in real life. This movie doesn't have the simple answers and simple situations that most Hollywood films seem to have way too often. But mostly this film has great performances. The two lead characters are portrayed beautifully by two very young actresses. But my real love is the very underrated actress Mary Kay Place. She is so good in every role, from Pecker to the Big Chill. Give This woman more film work. Not all roles, for women past 40, need to go to Streep.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT MOVIE!, December 24, 2003

By	FreakyGeek (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

I saw Manny and Lo for the first time on the OXYGEN channel earlier this year and fell in love with it. The movie is very entertaining and funny at times, I'm so glad that it is finally coming out on Dvd! I'm going to be at the front of the line buying this one when it comes out in January.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overlooked, August 8, 2004

By	K. Gittins (CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Scarlett Johannson and Aleksa Palladino play sisters "Amanda" and "Lauren", two foster kids, in this off-beat story. They kidnap a nurse-type (Mary Kay Place) to help them with Lauren's pregnancy. The movie is a bit quirky and the dialog is quite good. The movie did not have any Oscar-caliber aspects to it, but it was entertaining, however.

The DVD itself has a good image quality, but there were no features other than scene selection, and a trailer to 3 other movies. It was over-priced (at $22) for what you get, but at a lower price, or if you are a fan of any of the three lead actresses, it may be worth it to you.