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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780627772
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780627776
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 02, 1999
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 30313
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1992
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Product Description: A sexy devious teenager has an unhealthy influence over a wealthy Beverly Hills family. Starring Drew Barrymore Sara Gilbert and Tom Skerritt.Running Time: 88 min.System Requirements:Running Time 88 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 794043484629
Amazon.com: Sight unseen, it's tempting to dismiss Poison Ivy as a teen variation on your standard trashy erotic thriller, a genre born with such promise in Body Heat that has since been in steady devolution. But while Ivy is no Heat, it's better than virtually any of those movies that star someone named Shannon. Crisp directing is supported by a script that takes a smart look at dysfunctional family dynamics, but most of all, it's the performances. Much has been made of Drew Barrymore's perfect casting as the title character, but she also does a sneaky and subtle job of straddling the fence: is Ivy a desperate, lonely young woman, an evil barracuda, or both? Tom Skerritt matches her step for step, playing the fallen husband as both hopelessly vain boob and genuinely lost soul. Cheryl Ladd delivers a sharp, minimalist performance as his Beverly Hills trophy wife dying of emphysema--becoming the still-life center of everyone else's life. And Sara Gilbert does a fine job in a role that gives her all the heavy lifting, playing tortured straight man to this pathetic and compelling tree full of coconuts. This DVD features both R-rated and unrated versions. The latter shows a bit more skin, although it's still fairly tame compared to the average skin flick. It also leaves Ivy a bit more ambiguous, and is thus a bit more fun. --Geof Miller
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In all honesty `Poison Ivy' is a terrible movie. The plot is predictable and campy, the script is poorly written and the mood of the film is manipulated and cheesy. That said; it is campy fun. `Wild Things' proved that camp can be done to perfection, and while this is no `Wild Things' it is certainly no `Showgirls'. What separates `Poison Ivy' from becoming the diluted mess that `Showgirls' was is the acting (although Gina Gershon was fantastic; seriously), which actually saves this film from ... Read More
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I bought this DVD on a whim. I originally bought the sequel - with Alyssa Milano, cos I'm having serious withdrawal symptoms from Charmed - and since it seems to be stupid to have the sequel without the original, I bought the original.
Set in somewhere extremely rainy (it rains pretty much every other scene), Sylvie meets a girl who she calls Ivy, because of the tattoo transfer of a cross with ivy at the bottom. (Do we ever find out her real name? Cos all 'Ivy' says when Sylvie says ... Read More
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This erotic thriller from the late '90s can be attributed to staging Drew Barrymore's comeback from hellraising tabloid staple to a formidable actress that captivates audiences. Barrymore plays Ivy, a girl from the wrong side of that tracks who has Lolita-esque ways of getting what she wants. Sara Gilbert ("Roseanne") plays an awkward teen from a rich family who makes the mistake of befriending Ivy and falls victim to her machinations. Tom Skerritt and Cheryl Ladd play the rich parents who also ... Read More
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"I never knew anyone that looked that much like a slut," Sara Gilbert remarks about teen psycho Drew Barrymore, who literally swings into Gilbert's life on a rope across a significantly deep ravine. "Not that I'm a lesbian," Gilbert says. "Well, maybe I am. I told my mother I was and she said , `Fine, as long as you don't smoke.'" But everyone SMOKES in this swoony saga of the havoc a gal who's been denied hugs can wreak on one wealthy family - like Cheryl Ladd who, as Gilbert's dying mom, breathes ... Read More
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This is a bad movie.
A really bad movie.
No, I mean it, a really, really bad movie. It's so horrendous you could punish your kids by making them sit through it.
All I can figure is someone went to Sara Gilbert and said, "Hey, how'd you like to make the leap from sit-com to film?" Then that same someone went and promised Tom Skerritt a lot of money to appear as a TMJ suffering sexually sicko father. And of course aging '70's starlet Cheryl Ladd did the film because ... Read More
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