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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792867845 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 079286784X Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 1008755 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 23, 2005 Running Time: 115 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1981 Editorial Review: Product Description: Academy Award®-winning* screenwriter Steven Tesich (Breaking Away) and Oscar®-nominated** director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde Alice's Restaurant) team up for this "charming powerful" (Leonard Maltin) coming-of-age story set against the protest prosperity and broken promises of the '60s.Coming to America with big dreams young Danilo stands before a future of endless possibilities until he falls in love with Georgia. A free-spirited flower child Georgia loves everyone including Danilo's two best friends! But their friendships are strained when she becomes pregnant by one and marries another. Hurt and despondent Danilo begins an angry search for someone to fill the void until their fateful paths cross once again for a last explosive encounter.*1979: Original Screenplay Breaking Away**1969: Alice's Restaurant; 1967: Bonnie and Clyde; 1962: The Miracle WorkerSystem Requirements:Running Time: 115 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616927460 Manufacturer No: 1008755 Amazon.com: After winning an Oscar for his first screenplay (Breaking Away), Steven Tesich mixed fact and fiction in a telescopic view of the '60s. Like Tesich, Danilo (Craig Wasson), immigrates to America (Easy Chicago, Indiana to be exact) with his Yugoslavian parents. The center of his life is two other high school friends and the woman all of them are in love with: Georgia Miles (Jodi Thelen), a flower child even before she finds the movement. Georgia and Danilo are probably meant for one another but are too swept up in the '60s to settle down. The men fall in and out of Georgia's arms and through all the touchstone issues of the '60s: Vietnam, civil rights, hippies, sexual politics, and drugs. Director Arthur Penn shies away from the Pomp and Circumstance of later '60s-themed films like Forrest Gump; these characters witness the '60s more than participate. Even the soundtrack is different: it's void of hit songs, continually returning to a beautiful onscreen musical motif. What makes (The New York Times put the film on their 1981 Top 10 list) or breaks the appeal to the viewer is Tesich's tendency--successful or not--to reach for the "big scene," bursting with bravura emotions, most notably in the huge, tragic surprise that is the film's turning point. If you're caught up in Danilo's plight, the movie will make your list of favorites that no one else knows about. --Doug Thomas Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The very best bar fight scene you will ever see!This is one of my favorite movies. The bar fight scene is the best and most honest you will ever see. Rating:  - A Complete MysteryIt's a complete mystery to me how and why this wonderful film was buried and never received the acclaim it deserved. I dicovered it in the Albertson's rental section in the early 90s. After watching it I couldn't understand how I had never even heard of it before. Rating: - Finally released : GET IT NOW !Four friends is the most beautiful, romantic, dramatic, American fresque I have ever watched. The actors are wonderful and true. The story is human and deep as a great novel can be. I have been waiting for a dvd editions for years, sending many e-mails and finally my dream came true. I have just watched it, and it doesn't get old. Thank you Mr Penn, thank you Craig Wasson, my dear Danilo, this film will remain in my heart for ever, just like the little flute medoly Danilo plays when he arrives in ... Read More Rating: - AT LAST... a gift for MOST generations!!!The best way to tell you how pleased I am that this is FINALLY being released on DVD is to post my comments over the years(...) Will some company PLEASE make a DVD of this film!??? 27 March 2005 Author: jim6263 from So.California, USA Will some company PLEASE make a (good+) DVD of this film!??? Aside from being a wonderful film about relationships and friendships, "Four Friends" is the ONLY film I've ever seen -- And I have, ... Read More Rating: - This is a MUST see !This is one of my ALL time favorite movies. I first saw this movie on Showtime in the early 80's. It was such a strong movie that I have never forgotten it all these 20 years. I was more than trilled when it was finaly released on VHS. |
