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DVD Paper Moon
A sweet and subtle gem of a movie. Newly orphaned Addie (Tatum O'Neal) falls into the care of small-time con artist Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's real-life father) and turns out to be better at grifting than he is. Set in Depression-era Kansas, Paper Moon is a miracle of unity. The set design and cinematography combine to give both the flavor of documentary photos and the visual quality of movies from the period, and every performance meshes with the overall tone of sincerity, earnest optimism, and creeping desperation. The rapport between Addie and Moses is phenomenal--and being father and daughter doesn't make that a sure thing. Ryan O'Neal gives a truly great performance (perhaps the only one of his career) and Tatum won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (she's the youngest winner in history). Madeline Kahn was also nominated for her wonderfully funny and sad turn as an exotic dancer named Trixie Delight. Paper Moon has a miraculous combination of outrageous sentimentality and pragmatic cynicism; the result is genuinely touching. One of director Peter Bogdanovich's best films, and kind of a comic companion piece to The Last Picture Show. --Bret Fetzer
A wonderfully entertaining movie set in the 1930's in Kansas. Ryan O'Neal plays a two-bit con-man who gets roped into transporting a 9-year-old girl (played by his real-life daughter Tatum) to relatives in St. Joseph, Missouri, after her mother dies. Tatum is wise beyond her years and the two team up in scams on the road. They have their adventures and grow to love and need each other. It's a fun picture, with the '30's setting perfectly captured in music and great b&w photography. Tatum won an Oscar. Definitely worth a watch.
A great film overall, but not sure if it's a family film
This review is for the 2003 widescreen DVD release by Paramount.
A wonderful film in many respects and gets my highest rating. The story doesn't lose any steam during the entire film and there are lots of great performances including the one by Tatum O'Neil who won an Oscar for her supporting role.
The plot is about a con man, Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neil), who sells personally engraved Bibles at inflated prices to the survivors of recently deceased spouses. He preys on the emotions of the spouses to buy the Bibles, convincing them with lies that their dead spouses had order these Bibles for them. Along the way, Moses attends a funeral where a mother has died leaving behind a young girl named Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neil). People attending the funeral notice that Moses slightly resembles the young girl and they ask him to help Addie find her way to her next of kin. From that point on the Addie is convinced that they belong together, and the relationship works great magic through the rest of the movie. Madeline Kahn also helps make this a very entertaining movie.
The attention to detail of the period with the music, costumes and props make it a feast for the eyes and ears. It was also filmed in black & white and for being set in the Depression Era, it works quite well. My only critical comment is that there was some profane language and a few adult situations which would disqualify it for family viewing which is a shame, because otherwise an entire family could really enjoy it. One nice DVD bonus is by Peter Bogdanovich who gives about 30 minutes of commentary regarding the preparation and filming of the movie.
Movie: A
DVD Quality: A
A beautifully evocative film.
I don't think I have ever seen a film that captures and delivers the essence of the depression era as well as this.
The cinematography and set design is outstanding, so much so that the film could be from the era it depicts and not the 1970's when it was actually made. Quite apart from the aesthetic beauty and historical accuracy, the central performances are stunning, the O'Neil partnership is electric and thoroughly hypnotic. Tatum O'Neil shines with irridescence as the wise, astute, tough little cookie; Addy. While Ryan O'Neil is beguiling as the lovable rogue. Khan is also impeccably comedic and vilely acidic at once.
A deserved classic and one of the most amazing child actor performances in cinema history!
Like Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and The Graduate, The Last Picture Show is one of the signature films of the "New Hollywood" that emerged in the late 1960s and early '70s. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry and lovingly directed by Peter Bogdanovich (who cowrote the script with McMurtry), this 1971 drama has been interpreted as an affectionate tribute to classic Hollywood filmmaking and the great directors (such as John Ford) that Bogdanovich so deeply admired. It's also a eulogy for lost innocence and small-town life, so accurately rendered that critic Roger Ebert called it "the best film of 1951," referring to the movie's one-year time frame, its black-and-white cinematography (by Robert Surtees), and its sparse but evocative... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Timothy Bottoms - Jeff Bridges - Cybill Shepherd Director(s): Peter Bogdanovich DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) tipped his hat to the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and especially the most glorious of them all, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. Barbra Streisand plays a charming flake who distracts a self-absorbed musicologist (Ryan O'Neal). He's engaged to be married, but soon Streisand's character has him chasing after stolen jewelry and getting into one madcap fix after another. Bogdanovich, who is also a film critic, understands the engine of the screwball genre, and his loving revival of the form brings a smile, though it is not quite consistently inspired or funny. There are plenty of great moments, however, including a slap at O'Neal's own star-making vehicle, Love Story. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Bogdanovich DVD Release Date: Released the 01 July 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This likable 1976 comedy gently skewers the whole post- Rocky mania for movies about losers who find their mettle or salvation or purpose in life in competitive sport. Walter Matthau stars as a drunk who becomes manager of a pathetic little-league baseball team. When he brings in a talented girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal), the crew have an actual chance at winning some games and maybe a championship. But director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer) undercuts the romance of it all with the team's foul-mouthed tendencies and Matthau's own decadent spin on mentor-coachdom. Similarly to Ritchie's wicked comedy Smile --which lampooned the fervor surrounding beauty pageants--The Bad News Bears pokes fun at another American institution. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Walter Matthau - Tatum O'Neal Director(s): Michael Ritchie DVD Release Date: Released the 12 February 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) to make his fortune as a sexual hustler. Although enthusiastic about selling himself to rich ladies for stud services, he quickly finds it hard to make a living and eventually crashes in a seedy dump with a crippled petty thief named Ratzo Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman, doing one of his more effective "stupid acting tricks," with a limp and a high-pitch rasp of a voice). Schlesinger's quick-cut,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dustin Hoffman - Jon Voight Director(s): John Schlesinger DVD Release Date: Released the 01 January 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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