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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381015829
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 08, 2003
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 34749
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: May 04, 2003
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Description:
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore reunite in their first acting performance together since "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-66), the classic comedy series for which both stars earned multiple Emmy Awards. Newly filmed in high definition. This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia Dorsey and Weller Martin during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments. Stars Emmy-winning actors Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) and Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins)
Amazon.com:
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, performing together for the first time since the heady days of The Dick Van Dyke Show, demonstrate the natural chemistry that made them television icons so long ago. In this skillful TV-movie of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Van Dyke and Moore play two elderly people who fight loneliness, loss, and each other while playing cards at a nursing home. The game reflects their approach to life as much as card-playing--but if you expect an easy, sentimental journey, you'll be surprised. Both Weller (Van Dyke) and Fonsia (Moore) have led unhappy lives, marred by misfortune and the spoils of their own difficult personalities. The dark undertone of their quarreling makes The Gin Game a potent piece of work, and these two old pros tear into their parts without fear or compromise, finding both humor and bitterness. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  -
For those of us who find the use of the "F" word absolutely hysterical in this award winning play, the actors do a nice job. The ulitmate version of this great play is of course the Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn version, which left to the decisions of twenty-something executives will never be released and lost to history. What a shame. If someone can find the old VHS and pirate it, there would be a fortune to be made. Put me down as first in line to buy a copy.
Rating:  -
I started out liking this movie. But I found it to be pointless and offensive. The language got worse as the show progressed. Call me a prude if you like, but I don't like dirt messing up a lovely outfit any more than I like dirt that is offensive to my ears.
This movie had no rating as it was made for TV, but the rating would have been R if they had rated it. The "F" word was used more than once and the Lord's name was taken in vain over and over again.
I would have ... Read More
Rating: -
DVD and MTM do a passable job in the production of The Gin Game, but what was their greatest asset in the old Dick Van Dyke series becomes their Achilles heel here, namely their strong chemistry as a team. I just couldn't get past the feeling that these people had known each other for decades, and knew each other's every quirk. In this show, that gets in the way of the story line that revolves around two elderly strangers getting to know and dislike one another and go through the process of accepting ... Read More
Rating:  -
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore team up again in 2003's "The Gin Game", a PBS-TV production which had me smiling and laughing out loud for much of its 87-minute running time. But, in addition to some side-splitting dialogue, there are some serious and touching moments as well.
Dick and Mary are a joy to watch together again in this simple story of two elderly residents of an old-folks home, who fill their days and nights by playing Gin Rummy and discussing their lives with each other.
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Rating: -
It's nice to see Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore reunited again which makes it a great movie!!
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