Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302077995
Edition: Vhs Video
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302077990
Label: Starmaker Entertainment
Manufacturer: Starmaker Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1997-06
Publisher: Starmaker Entertainment
Release Date: 1991-06-25
Running Time: 112
Studio: Starmaker Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-02-21

Customer Rating:
Summary: Let's hear it for the good old DVD industry
Comment: I wonder what's behind this particular movie never having been released on DVD in the US? I refuse to buy a used VHS copy of the this movie because I want my first viewing after 20 years to be in glorious widescreen DVD with good sound. So I'm waiting. And waiting. And waiting. ZZZZZZZZZZ

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Someone explain the DVD industry to me
Comment: How can volumes 1-7 of "Green Acres" get on DVD and this is forgotten? Are there no movie buffs out there in the industry at all? Unfathomable. Well, get the tape if you tripped over this, because if you're a movie fan, this is an essential film.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of my all-time favorite movies. Anxiously awaiting a Region-1 DVD release.
Comment: This is the first movie directed by Ray Lawrence (of "Lantana" fame), based on a wonderful Peter Carey novel. Twenty years later, it remains a very entertaining black comedy, loaded with humor (of all flavors), a sincere regard for Life's big questions ("What happens when I die, and what must I do now to avoid postmortem unpleasantness?"), and arresting bits of surrealism within an otherwise realistic film. Above all, the film regards its characters with affection, despite their flaws (and they are myriad!).

My VHS copy is wearing out from multiple viewings. The folks at Village Roadshow in Australia released a 2-disc DVD set in September 2005, complete with a separate director's cut, audio commentary, and "script-to-screen" feature. However, this DVD is available only as a Region-4 disc, and will not play on North American (i.e., Region-1) DVD players.

Here's hoping that somebody will decide to release this movie in a Region-1 format, so that the film's North American fans can enjoy it once again.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not really a review....
Comment: Any news? I've been watching for this to get a DVD release for over 5 years. ANCHOR BAY may have had it listed a few years ago, but if it was this BLISS, the planned release seems to have fallen through.

I already quit a lousy job, years ago. So I just want to enjoy this interesting movie, my life doesn't need changing that way anymore.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A life affirming movie that validates the 20th century
Comment: This is truly one of the greatest movies of all time, especially if you are a baby boomer, born between 1946 and 1963 (don't worry, this assures it will eventually be on DVD). For some reason, all of us love, or are sympathetic to the concept of, Australia. This movie exemplifies the brilliance and social understanding of our colleagues in the Antipodes. The movie captivates you with its eccentrincities, and weaves a stream of consciousness motif that James Joyce would truly envy. Yet it is always entertaining, and as others have pointed out, it has the most beautiful endings and overall themes of any movie made in the last quarter of the last century. Also the soundtrack is beautiful; I've been trying to find it remastered, but have already carefully made magnetic media copies of the movie and soundtrack in my archives. I can't wait for a critical mass of folks from my generation to rediscover it so that we may all enjoy a digital version of the movie and the soundtrack in our lifetime....

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