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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305162001
Feature: When it comes to life-threatening exploits, they don't get any better than those of professional stuntman Sonny Hooper - until now. Although Sonny's body is feeling the effects of his very long and successful career, the appearance of a charismatic rival on the scene causes him to attempt the most spectacular and dangerous stunt of his career.Running Time: 92 min. System Requirements: Starring
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 630516200X
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 16881
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 28, 1978
Features:- When it comes to life-threatening exploits, they don't get any better than those of professional stuntman Sonny Hooper - until now. Although Sonny's body is feeling the effects of his very long and successful career, the appearance of a charismatic rival on the scene causes him to attempt the most spectacular and dangerous stunt of his career.Running Time: 92 min. System Requirements: Starring
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Product Description:
When it comes to life-threatening exploits they don't get any better than those of professional stuntman Sonny Hooper - until now. Although Sonny's body is feeling the effects of his very long and successful career the appearance of a charismatic rival on the scene causes him to attempt the most spectacular and dangerous stunt of his career.Running Time: 92 min.System Requirements:Starring: Burt Reynolds Jan-Michael Vincent Sally Field Brian Keith John Marley Robert Klein Running Time: 99 minutes Genre: ComedyFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG UPC: 085391688129
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The clarity of hindsight has turned Burt Reynolds's heyday in the 1970s into a time capsule of good ol' boy lunacy, and his movies remain as vital to that decade as disco and Watergate. Hooper represents the tail end of Reynolds's popularity, the last gasp before Reynolds moved on to forgettable romantic comedies and the sheer desperation of Smokey and the Bandit II and The Cannonball Run. Like those films it's harmless fun, and Hooper--conceived as a tribute to veteran stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker--benefits from the fact that both Reynolds and director Hal Needham were former stuntmen. The movie features three generations of stuntmen played by Brian Keith, Reynolds, and Jan-Michael Vincent, the last as a cocky young stunt-star who urges Reynolds to perform his greatest stunt ever: leaping a rocket-powered car over a wide gorge (a stunt inspired by the real-life exploits of daredevil Evel Knievel). What's fun about no-brainers like Hooper is that Reynolds's brand of macho mischief never really goes out of style. It's dated, but it's always going to find an appreciative audience. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
I enjoyed watching this film again. I think the important thing to understand is that Burt represents the hard drinking, pill popping, reckless way of the "old school" stunt man, where as Jan Michael Vincent represents the non-drinking, non pill popping, cool ways of the "new school" stunt man...... and taken in that context the movie's rather blatant excesses become more relevant.
Obviously filmed on a rather limited budget, the stunts aren't spectacular, but still fun none-the-less. ... Read More
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Burt Reynolds has had a varied career. The Smokey & The Bandit series were well done and provided a lot of laughs.
HOOPER,on the other hand, had some excellent scenes, Jackie Gleason stole every scene he was in. Jerry Reed not only wrote the title song in less than 24 hours, he played a wonderful 'sidekick' to Burt. Fred the dog (who came from a local dog kennel) was a scene stealer without knowing he was doing it.
Hal Needham out did himself with the direction.
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A look at stuntmen, the best part is when Burt is Riding his horse at night and Sally wakes up and goes outside and stands there just watching him ride while a country love song is playing in the background. Saw it on the bigscreen, twice, when it was released. Loved it then, Love it now, thes stunts looked awsome on the bigscreen.
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Ok, maybe not the best comedy out there but definitely one of the better ones. It's a good flick that has some funny scenes, like when they fight Terry Bradshaw in the restaurant.
This was the movie that when I first saw it in the theater back in '78, I wanted to be an actor, so badly but living in Connecticut and being as far from Hollywood as one can be before leaving the country, it was basically impossible to follow my dream.
Plus believe it or not, when I walked into the ... Read More
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Burt Reynolds was bigger than big in the late 1970s and this 1978 Action-Comedy, coming off the success of Smokey & the Bandit the previous year, put Reynolds in the stratosphere after additional 70s hits like: Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Gator & Semi-Tough.
Reynolds plays Sonny Hooper, an aging, but not yet over-the-hill Hollywood stunt man being faced with the challenges of young, upstart Ski Chinski, played by Jan-Michael Vincent. The two play off one another and learn to "play together" ... Read More
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