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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781573624053
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1573624055
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: August 25, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 21355
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: July 25, 1997
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Product Description:
Al fountain is a man struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age when a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience. With the help of a few bizarre but sincere strangers. Al discovers something incredible himself. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: John Turturro Catherine Keener Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R Director: Tom Dicillo
Amazon.com:
John Turturro plays a humorless engineer who uncharacteristically takes a brief break from his life to find the source of his only happy childhood memory. When that fails to materialize, he offers a ride to a benign, buckskin-attired kook (Sam Rockwell) and soon gets much deeper into the young fellow's unhinged life than he ever intended. Director Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion) makes a good case that Turturro's character is getting what he needs (a lot of loosening up) versus what he wants (everything on his terms). Ironically, the film can't make the same claim, tightly bound as it is to conventional and rather bland storytelling form. One keeps wanting something cinematically thrilling to happen, but the project is too rigid for that. Having said that, however, even if this isn't a great film, it is an awfully pleasant one. With Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, and a cameo by Dermot Mulroney. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
Al Fountain (John Turturro) is an electrical engineer and The Boss. We first see him being managerial as he unpopularly puts his crew back to work at 4:45 after he catches them engaging in a bit of fun before quitting time. He's generally considered an "a--hole" by the guys, but actually he's simply an insecure, middle-class business type who's supporting his conventional family in suburbia. He very much wants to be liked but has a job to do. He's much like you and me.
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I missed this little gem when it was first released, so it came as a delightful surprise. It is wonderfully cast, with John Turturro doing a brilliant job in the lead role as a tightly-wound but emotionally clueless electrical engineer who exasperates his family and construction crew alike with his rigid, humorless ways. The physical and psychic detour that he takes when he encounters the charismatic, spontaneous, and morally flexible Sam Rockwell, makes for humor, dramatic tension, and mind-expanding ... Read More
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This delightful comedy is a 'feel good' movie about a serious man who thinks he's losing his sanity. Returning to a place where he had fun as a child, he runs into a younger man who teaches him that easing up is not only a more desirable way to live life, but may be essential to good mental health.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
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I too was channel surfing and came upon this movie and could not change the channel. And it was my first introduction to Sam Rockwell, who is, WOW, so talented. The many looks and characters he played in the movies that I have seen since this movie, is astounding for one so young. Why haven't I heard of him before. And his movies are few and far in between it seems. I find I can't wait to see the next one. You won't be disappointed. A little bit of magic, and wonder is in this movie, you have to look ... Read More
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One of my favorites, since buying it several years ago, I still like to watch it again and again.
This is one of my favorite movies, when I want to watch a fun movie where I'll feel good about people without fairytale sappiness, this is what I grab from my stash of DVDs. Al and Kid are wonderful opposite types who remain themselves throughout the movie, yet add to each other through the friendship that they form. The feelings of camaraderie are portrayed well with a freshness that comes right ... Read More
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