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(aka 'I Love Huckabee's" or "I Love Huckabees')
directed by David
O. Russell
USA 1997
David O. Russell really goes over the top in this one, and despite what you
might hear elsewhere, he manages to make it all work. This delightful adult
comedy follows the exploits of a group of lost souls, whom, frustrated with life
and the unending search for its meaning, employ the help of the Existential
Detectives- a pair of foppish philosophers (Dustin Hoffman & Lily Tomlin) who
follow you around and help you sort out your life with their
"Inter-connectedness philosophies". Jason Schwartzman plays an environmental
activist, loosely based on a young O. Russell, and Mark Whalberg plays his 9/11
inspired Other, a petroleum obsessed firefighter who upon arriving on the scene
of a fire decides to take to watering a neglected lawn rather than putting out
the fire. There are quite a few inside jokes with regards to the writings of
Kafka, Hegel, Freud, Plato, Sartre, and Lacan that I found simply hilarious. If
none of those names are familiar to you, donšt worry, the rest of the cast,
which includes Naomi Watts, Isabelle Huppert, Tippi Hedren, and Jude Law (in his
450th film of the year) are dynamite as well.
This is the kind of sharp-witted intellectual humor that often reminded me of
the great Woody Allen of twenty years ago. A must see!
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Theatrical Release: September 10th, 2004 - Toronto Film Festival
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DVD Review: 20th Century Fox (single disc) - Region 1 - NTSC
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| Distribution | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video - Region 1- NTSC | |
| Runtime | 1:46:32 | |
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2.35:1
Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.11 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
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| Audio | English (Dolby Digital 5.1), DUB: Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Commentaries- English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) | |
| Subtitles | English, Spanish, None | |
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Release Information:
Edition Details: • Commentary
by director David O. Russell
• Full Frame version on opposite side of disc. |
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There is a double disc version of this from Fox, with the same image quality but a 2nd DVD of extra features. You can see more about it HERE.
This image is softer than it should be. Definitely. It has infrequent
moments of sharpness, but then seems to fall back on its washed-out hazy
image. No real care seems to have been put into this image by Fox. It is
not horrendous, just much softer than one might expect for a new film to
DVD. Skin tones look a little dark, but nothing I can nail down about
any concrete manipulations. On the positive front - subtitles are good
and they have maintained the aspect ratio. The dual commentaries are
kind of fun (I didn't listen to all) and for those really keen on
knowing more about this production - they will find it interesting.
Overall a far cry from the theatrical and maybe Fox should look at their
DVD authoring process.
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