Product Details

• Actors: Tom Hanks
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000R7I3YG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,483 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Kip and Henry work at an advertising agency as an artist and writer respectively. When the apartment that they were living in was condemned, they had no place to live. So Amy their co-worker, who has a crush on Henry, suggests that they stay with her but the only the problem is that it's for girls only. So they get into drag and assume the personas of Buffy and Hildegarde. When Kip meets Sonny, Amy's attractive roommate, he is smitten and when they learn that there's a vacancy in the building, Kip convinces Henry to take it so he can be close to Sonny, and so that this experience might be good material for a book that Henry can write.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny Comedy, August 20, 2007

By	Monica C. Mcginley (Canyon Country, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This show is hilarious. Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari make a great comedic team. This show is not a social commentary on sexual orientation, it is a funny look at what would happen if two men had to dress up as women to have a place to live. The way they make fun of themselves and their situation is funny. The supporting characters are great too. The fact that these two men could in no way pass for real women is part of the humor. I loved it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I got Bosom Buddies!, April 3, 2008

By	Jonathan R. Snow (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The opening narratives from the show are very much on the DVDs. I was puting off buying the set because of what Lu had commented, but finally broke down and did purchase the complete series. I'm glad I did. I still haven't seen all the episodes and know that there are some changes, but still enjoyable. And, yes...the opening narratives start on the episode "How Great Thou Art." I believe that when it aired on the ABC-TV network, they had the producers start that intro earlier, but that this is the real master.
Also, yes I do miss the Billy Joel theme, but the theme used is the really the original theme to Bosom Buddies that was replaced last minute. If you notice the narrative instrumental music matched this theme song and also matches the end theme. It was also the theme that was used when they aired repeats on The USA Cable Network.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the funnier comedies of the late 70's - early 80's era, August 29, 2007

By	calvinnme "Texan refugee" (Fredericksburg, Va) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

Sure, the storyline had been done before in "Some Like it Hot", but I really loved this show. The obvious reason for looking back on it now is to see Tom Hanks "back in the day" before he hit the big screen. After all, he was the only actor besides Spencer Tracy to ever win back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. Wouldn't you be curious if we had 40 or so half-hour episodes of Spence as a young man parading around in a dress in a situation comedy? I know I would. Besides Tom Hanks, the other castmembers were terrific, and most had pretty good careers. Peter Scolari (Henry Desmond) had a long run on "Newhart" in the 80's, Donna Dixon (Sonny Lumet) was adequate enough as Hank's love interest on the show, the late Wendy Jo Sperber (Amy Cassidy) was very good as the overweight girl who hoped against hope that Scolari's character would come to love her, and then there's the early appearance of Telma Hopkins (Isabelle Hammond) who had other comedic roles on "Gimme A Break" and then "Family Matters". Holland Taylor as Ruth Dunbar rounds out the cast as Kip and Henry's boss in the first season and partner in the second one. She's part foil and part friend to the leading duo at a time (the early 80's) before the boomers had aged to the point where they would admit that there was such a thing as a beautiful older woman, which she was.

The show lost some of its appeal when the women found out that Buffy and Hildy were really Kip and Henry, but then the ruse couldn't have gone on for another entire season without the show losing even more appeal. Things were kept pretty interesting in the second season though by changing scenery - Kip and Henry buy their own ad agency - and by Kip blowing it in the worst way by cheating on Sonny. Sonny's response to finding out is not what Kip expected - she's OK with it for all the wrong reasons. It turns out she was never that sure of their relationship and she felt her lack of a reaction just proved she wasn't ready for an exclusive arrangement after all. The show lasted for only about 40 episodes, so it never really got a chance to really wear out its welcome. I'd recommend it for its inventive light comedy and all of the careers that it unexpectedly launched.