Barbarians at the Gate
by Glenn Jordan
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Actor: Fred Dalton Thompson, James Garner, Joanna Cassidy, Jonathan Pryce, Peter RiegertDirector: Glenn Jordan
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Jeffrey Downer
Producer: Marykay Powell
Producer: Ray Stark
Producer: Thomas M. Hammel
Writer: Bryan Burrough
Writer: John Helyar
Writer: Larry Gelbart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of Barbarians at the Gate
DVD Review: Great (and timely) must see movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an HBO-made movie I originally saw back when it came out. I recently thought about it, as we are experiencing similar corporate greed issues, but now which are affecting the entire world. I enjoyed it as much as I remember I did originally. And James Garner is outstanding! I wonder how long it will be before the next great, similar movie is made? Though this one will have to inject politics into it. Mmmm ... yummy!DVD Review: Perfectly timely now in '09, but forgotten
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of the films that put HBO Films on the map. It is absolutely relevant to today's financial crisis, but is set back in the '80's. It is the truth-based telling of one of the most crazy and out of control buy-outs in Wall Street history (until now, of course). A corporate drama-comedy, it is filled with both moments of intensity and hilarity. James Garner is truly entertaining as the foul, unmannered F Ross Johnson, and Jonathan Pryce skillfully understated as the refined Henry Kravis. Supporting cast including Fred Thompson and Peter Riegert are excellent and round out a full viewing experience.
WHY is this NOT getting airplay right now?! Buy it.
DVD Review: Brilliant lok at the financial excesses of the '80's
Summary: 5 Stars
Barbarians At The Gate focuses more on the personalities and egos that drove the stunning LBO of RJRNabisco. James Garner plays a role you rarely see him in, along with a terrific complement of seasoned actors illustrating the ego clashes and senseless competitiveness that typified the LBO scene of the times. Well paced, with a mix of a dramatic percussion-driven soundtrack with an almost light-hearted unique whistling soundtrack at telling moments, this movie holds your attention from the very beginning. The movie manages to lay out the whole event and cleverly illustrates the insanity without laying on thick judgementalism. You're hard-pressed to find whose greed and whose ego is bigger. A telling scene is where the Chairman of RJR agrees to pay KKR $45 million simply to wait another hour for the board to decide. The book goes into a great deal more history and detail, but the movie captures the mood and atmosphere of the time much better.DVD Review: So dissapointing....but if you must have low expectations
Summary: 2 Stars
This was my thought process.
1)I love Barbarians at the Gate(the book), I love it so much that I'm going to buy the movie.
2)Wow this movie sucks. I must be maturing because for the first time in my life I can safely say that "the book is so much better than the movie."
3)Whatever I'm just going to watch it all the way through, maybe it'll get good.
4)Damn I'm out 10 bucks, it never got close to good.
Its dirt cheap, and if you must buy it and see how bad it really is. Just make sure your expectations are for something on par with what a highschool film class could put together.
DVD Review: Barbarians and Buffoons rattling at the gates
Summary: 5 Stars
Good film : Garner gives a remarkably convincing performance.
Screenplay is well structured and pungently critical of the corporate strategies displayed by all those drawn into the levered buyout game and gamble.
Description of Barbarians at the Gate
When the ceo of nabisco decides to buy out the shareholders and take over the company no one is prepared for what hits the fan in this comedy about big business and big bucks. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: James Garner Joanna Cassidy Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R Director: Glenn JordanThis HBO original comedy, adapted by Larry Gelbart (Tootsie) from the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, concerns one of the most compelling tales of corporate buyout madness in the go-go 1980s. James Garner plays F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco. Following failed and expensive efforts to sell a smokeless cigarette to the public, Johnson decides that he's had enough of navigating around the wrath of the company's stockholders. Drawing up plans to buy RJR Nabisco outright, he soon finds himself outmatched (though still determined) in a race for the prize with takeover king Henry Kravis (Jonathan Pryce). The ensuing battle is both bitterly funny and full of acid-tinged insights into the '80s greed that changed corporate America forever. Besides Gelbart's great script and Glenn Jordan's competent direction, the star of this exciting film is Garner, who is absolutely wonderful as the gracious Johnson. --Tom Keogh
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