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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097363284345
Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D328434D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1993
Editorial Review:
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007
Amazon.com:
If there was a universal collective, albeit repressed, dream, it would probably be to become a successful singer. People would take that singing in the car, singing in the shower, and even singing in the rain, and have it be their life's love and work. The Thing Called Love uses this popular aspiration as its setting and examines the lives of four young people hoping to make it in the country music universe. At the center is earnest Miranda Presley--no relation--(Samantha Mathis), the pretty but untalented Linda Lue (Sandra Bullock), the intense and talented James (River Phoenix), and the sweet and prolific Kyle (Dermont Mulroney). Popular country stars make appearances: K.T. Oslin (as Lucy, the owner of the Bluebell, where open-mike auditions are held), Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Katy Moffatt, Jo-El Sonnier, Pam Tillis, Kevin Welch, and even Trisha Yearwood. The film's not merely focused on the rich musical milieu and its talented cast. It also carefully examines the dynamic between friends who are also competitors, as well as a realistic love triangle between the leads. The Thing Called Love is primarily known as one of River Phoenix's last performances, but even if curiosity alone brings audiences to the movie, they'll soon be drawn into the fresh tale of four young people pursuing their dreams. --N.F. Mendoza
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Rating:  -
I was happy to watch The Thing Called Love , River Phoenix's last completed film work. It was not his absolute best work as many of his other 12 feature films had been, but a few scenes in the film caught the beauty of River external and internal, he seemed to be struggling very hard to focus and his physical appearance had taken a drastic change , but those of us who followed his career could see in this film the actor was and had been the very best of our Generation X . His last role of James Wright ... Read More
Rating:  -
So what ever happened to Samantha Mathis?
All phoney baloney about country song writers and
Sandra Bullock was completely forgettable in this.
Dermot Mulroney ( the second best actor in the bunch)
is so little country that the good hat looks bad on him.
As a musical, the songs are all just country standards reused?
So the lead girl (Samantha Mathis) made this movie.
River Phoenix is just ugly and a loser
playing a loser?
I kind of liked the movie as ... Read More
Rating:  -
Had this talented young actor not died at such a ripe age I don't think this movie would be the cult classic it is today.
You can't seem to take your eyes off Phoenix in this film and wonder what could have been.
The story is basic. A girl comes to Nashville with a guitar and a dream.
She meets three other young people searching for their own dream. Kyle is in love with Miranda. James and Miranda are in love with each other. Linda is in love with Kyle.
I like that Miranda chose to ... Read More
Rating: -
This was River Phoenix's first adult role, but it's nothing to write home about. Sandra Bullock was new here, too, and you'd never suspect she'd become a big star from this. It's a country-western boy/girl love triangle with some just ok music performed by the actors themselves. Reminds me a bit of "Urban Cowboy." It's not terrible in any way, but why it's a bit of a cult fave, I'm not too sure, other than for the last look at the soon-to-OD Phoenix.
Rating: -
What a great movie on every level. How powerful that River, even while so very obviously, quite literally, barely conscious in every scene, even as his body was already departing this earth in this movie, right in front of us, he STILL, barely alive, was more mesmerizing and magnetic on the screen than any other actor before or since. What a singer he would have been, and what a fragile and beautiful human being was lost. Although I love this movie, it actually hurts sometimes to view it.
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