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TechnoTV - Cannery Row
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Starring: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh
Directed By: David S. Ward
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301966467
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301966465
Label: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Manufacturer: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Release Date: 1993-03-03
Running Time: 120
Studio: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Finally!
Comment: Finally! I've been waiting for this to hit DVD for years! I was just about to break down and get it on VHS, and now here it is!
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Summary: A suggestion to Tom Keogh
Comment: Dear Tom Keogh, re: your review, verisimilitude? egregious contrivances? Just a suggestion to you: get the hell over yourself.
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Summary: DVD disaster
Comment: The original film was in beautiful widescreen. The DVD is cropped and therefore should be avoided--a disaster and a shame that Warner Bros. couldn't show proper respect to a beautiful film. Don't waste your money on this.
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Summary: Finally . . . on DVD
Comment: I am so excited that the DVD will soon be available for this wonderful movie. It is one of my top 10 movies that I have been waiting years to come out on DVD. I highly recommend it. Love the dance scene, one of the best movie moments ever. Love the whole quirky, funny, sweet movie!!!!
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Summary: Cannery Row "Frog Round-up Finesse"
Comment: This is a classic movie on its own merits. If you can sit through the "frog round-up" with a straight face there is something basic wrong with you. The "boys" are individualistic, delightful, and capricious. The chemistry between Nolte and Winger grows on you, and all this is beside the point of the storyline. In other words, don't read the books first, if you're dead set on reading, read them after you see the film.
Why isn't this available on DVD? It's a mystery to me and many others. You'll never get tired of seeing this one over and over. This movie is off the entertainment scale which doesn't happen often. You may even pick up some small details you missed the first few viewings.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This 1982 effort at adapting John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row is barely watchable, salvaged only by the thoughtful performances of Nick Nolte as a marine biologist and Debra Winger as a drifter. David S. Ward (Down Periscope) made his directorial debut and thoroughly botched such essentials as pacing and verisimilitude. (The sets look as artificial as any of Francis Ford Coppolla's more egregious contrivances.) If you can stay with it, however, there are plenty of good acting moments to hang your hat on. --Tom Keogh
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