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DVD The Beautician and the Beast
Beauty-school teacher Fran Drescher, basically reprising her television role in The Nanny, is whisked out of Queens and deposited in Eastern Europe after she is mistaken for a science teacher. Timothy Dalton is the gruff and stilted president for life she tames with mousse and kindness. Drescher, with that inimitable voice and colorful clothing, is very funny. It is not a far stretch to compare her favorably with Lucille Ball. The script, however, matches her bubbly humor with nothing but clunkiness. A mild diversion, this is one of many Hollywood comedies that works just fine on video. --Rochelle O'Gorman
We have this as a VHS tape. Since more of the oldies are coming out on DVD media we just needed to get this one. We get a kick out of Fran, she is a trip.
Harmless fluff, if you watch it for free
This is one of those movies that follow the age-old pattern: spunky heroine gets job as nanny/governess/teacher from handsome (and rich) but callous widower/divorcee. Heroine is a breath of fresh air in household, children are initially resistant but soon come to love their nanny/governess/teacher. Heroine and employer fall in love but some conflict causes her to run away/return home. Hero realizes that he can't live without heroine and goes and gets her and they live happily ever after. This formula has worked for everything from Jane Eyre to the Sound of Music. It is not quite successfully pulled off this time around, the main problem being that Fran Drescher is so gratingly annoying that I was seriously suprised that the Stalin-esk Boris didn't just 'disappear' her. I also didn't understand their attraction to each other (aside from the fact that Timothy Dalton cuts a VERY nice figure in uniform). In this case I have to agree with Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail (I know, it's brought me to this):
'She fell in love with Gen. Franko?!' 'So? People do stupid things in foreign countries.' 'Sure, they buy leather jackets for WAY more than they're worth but they don't fall in love with fascist dicators!'
I Like This Movie (It's Funny!)-- So Sue Me!!
I know that alot people probably have seen this and thought it was ridiculous or have seen it on the movie store shelf and ignored it. This is such a funny movie-- Fran Drescher is the main draw, but Timothy Dalton as the angry, dictator/president father of three is hilarious as well. There's one scene where he tells one of his advisors to "Talk to the hand." It's funny because it's a rigid Timothy Dalton doing this. And also because NO ONE does this anymore.
Drescher stars as Joy Miller, an aspiring beautician. While she's teaching a beauty class, the classroom goes up in flames because a student was smoking and caught the mannequin head on fire. Another student attempts to put the fire out by using a can of hairspray. Oops. Joy saves the animals that are in the classroom and ends up on the front page, and because she's such a dedicated "teacher," is offered a job teaching the children of the Slovetzian president, Pochenko (Dalton). Joy has several meet-cutes with this seemingly cold, brutal president, who acts more like a dictator. We come to find that he's not as rigid as we think.
It's Beauty and the Beast meets The King and I. It's not executed as well as the previously mentioned, this movie stutters through their romance (remind me why she instantly likes him so much??) and there's an unnecessary story about a "rebel" boyfriend of the president's daughter, which turns into a giant rigamaroll. Though all in all, this movie is a good laugh. Recommended!!
Sony brings to DVD the first season of this one-of-a-kind sitcom starring Fran Drescher as the warm-hearted, nasal-voiced nanny from Queens who lands a job caring for three children of a wealthy, widowed Broadway producer from Manhattan. During the show’s six-year run (1993-1999), Drescher dazzles as Fran Fine in a role she created and developed (as writer and producer in several episodes) and obviously relishes, whether she’s flirting, whining, sparring, or showcasing her sensational wardrobe. The three-disc collection features 22 episodes beginning with "The Pilot," when Fran knocks on the Sheffield’s door and is mistakenly hired as their new nanny, establishing the show’s shtick of "blue collar meets blue blood." Immediate chemistry between Nanny Fine and Maxwell... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Fran Drescher DVD Release Date: Released the 12 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I really wish I had read the reviews before I bought this DVD and saw the warning that the new DVD is pan and scan only and that the old DVD which had both widescreen and pan and scan is out of print but when I saw this DVD for Mrs. Winterbourne in a store at a low price of about 6 dollars I bought it thinking that was a bargain and that I was getting one of my favorite romantic comedies in widescreen but when I went to watch the DVD I was disappointed to find out that it was just an edited pan and scan version and there was no widescreen version especially as I had gotten rid of my pan and scan video version in order to update to the widescreen DVD so my question is Why in the world would anyone put out what they call a remastered edition on DVD and than release it in pan and scan and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Shirley MacLaine - Ricki Lake - Brendan Fraser Director(s): Richard Benjamin DVD Release Date: Released the 12 February 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Jane Eyre--the mother of all gothic romances--gets abundant passion in this 11-episode BBC miniseries. Young Sian Pattenden is wonderfully willful and impetuous; viewers will immediately identify with the child Jane as she fights against ill-treatment at the home of her aunt and at boarding school. It's a shame to see her grow up into Zelah Clarke--until Clarke asserts her own quiet yet fierce spirit. The plot really starts rolling when Jane takes a position as governess at Thornfield, a handsome estate owned by the imperious and tortured Mr. Rochester (Timothy Dalton, a few years before he became James Bond). From there, this 1983 adaptation rips through the perilous highs and devastating lows of Charlotte Bronte's powerful novel, in which the courtship of these two... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Julian Amyes DVD Release Date: Released the 19 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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