Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Roy Mack, Vincente Minnelli
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Actor: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Jane Gumm, The Vitaphone Kiddies, Virginia GummDirector: Roy Mack, Vincente Minnelli
Brand: WEA
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Producer: Arthur Freed
Producer: Roger Edens
Writer: Fred F. Finklehoffe
Writer: Irving Brecher
Writer: Sally Benson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.37:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Smiles all around
Summary: 5 Stars
I discovered this movie pretty late in life, I was 37 or 38 and I bought it basically because there is a book on classic movies for kids of all ages and this is the movie the author recommends as the first movie to introduce to your kids. So they showed it on TCM and I recorded it, and I was blown away. My daughters loved it, especially the dance Margaret O'Sullivan has with Judy Garland.
The movie takes you thru a year in the life of an american family at the beginning of the 20th century. Beginning in summer up to spring of the following year. As I'm writing this I can't help but smile as scenes of the movie come to mind: Judy staring longingly thru the window at the boy next door as she sings "The Boy Next Door"( this is my 6 y/o favorite scene), the halloween scene, the dinner scene waiting for Rose's "boyfriend's" long distance call (hilarious scene), the aforementioned dance scene with Judy and Margaret ( my daughter's 2nd favorite scene), Judy singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (if you don't tear up, you're made of stone), Margaret destroying the snowmen "family" ( a little girl's frustration with adults changing their world, again if you don't tear up... well you get the idea).
Give yourself and your children the opportunity to see a real classic movie, that will bring warmth and smiles all around.
DVD Review: Bought this to share with my grandchildren. They loved it, esepcially Margaret O'Brien.
Summary: 4 Stars
I got it for Halloween because there is a really neat scene where Margaret O'Brien goes out to play tricks on neighbors. She was about 6 at the time. A really great little actress. DVD Review: Amazon order
Summary: 5 Stars
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DVD Review: Every critic in the world seems to love this movie...
Summary: 3 Stars
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vicente Minnelli, 1944)
I spent a good block of time in 2007 and 2008 compiling thousand-best lists found in books and on the Internet, either compilations (found in places like the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? website) or lists compiled by fans, critics, and the like, usually in book form (e.g. Jonathan Rosenbaum's thousand must-see films list, easily findable on the net, or the New York Times guide to the thousand best films, a book). I did a bunch of data mining with the compilation when I got done; ten lists gave me about thirty-eight hundred different movies, a great deal less than I expected. There's a lot of crossover. But that crossover is usually limited to two or three lists; when you start looking at films that appear on five or more lists, you get down to a very small selection of films. No single movie appears on all ten lists, which actually surprises me (for some reason, I had jotted down that there were two). Twenty-eight movies appear on nine of the ten lists; for trivia purposes, the odd man out in almost every case is the quirky, fun Halliwell list. But the twenty-eight in that nine-of-ten sublist are the cream of the crop. You've heard most of their names bandied about pretty much everywhere; The Maltese Falcon, Psycho, Last Tango in Paris, Rebel Without a Cause, that sort of thing. To my mind, there are only two outright surprises on the list (though I admit I paused for a moment at Hitchcock's Rebecca). One of them is Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. The other is Meet Me in St. Louis. One doesn't normally think of period musicals as being among the best films of all time, at least not those not written by Ridgers and Hammerstein. And yet there it is. It's currently ranked as the 220th greatest movie ever made at They Shoot Pictures (down from 201st this month; TSPDT is a dynamic list that compiles surveys from almost two thousand critics), and everyone from Halliwell to Rosenbaum, and almost everyone in between, considers it a must-see.
Meet Me in St. Louis, set in the title city (mostly) during the winter before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, is the story of a family: mom and dad, a son, four daughters, and a plucky housekeeper. Much of the picture centers on youngest daughter Tootie (adorable child star Margaret O'Brien, who's still going strong; as I write this, work is wrapping on her latest film, Frankenstein Rising), the real draw of the picture is Esther, the second-oldest daughter, played by Judy Garland. In any case, this is a character-driven picture for the most, part, so a plot synopsis is going to give much of the game away if I go anywhere substantive; it all starts off with Esther pining for the boy next door and oldest daughter Rose (Lucille Bremer) eagerly awaiting a call from New York City, during which she expects to be proposed to. Things all go haywire from there; misunderstandings, travails, and musical numbers abound as we head for the Christmas season.
I remain unconvinced that anyone remembers the film for anything other than two things that are, at best, incidental to it; it is the film in which the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" made its debut (with somewhat different lyrics than we have today), and it's the film where Vicente Minnelli met his future wife, Judy Garland. When it comes right down to the film, it's really something of a plotless mess, though quite a gaudy and fine-looking one. Judy Garland could cover Tom Waits and make it sound torchy, so when you've got songs that were written to her strengths, they're pretty much guaranteed winners, and Margaret O'Brien shows why she was the main successor to Shirley Temple in the realm of ultra-cute perky kids. The movie is marred, however, by the incredible stupidity of a number of its characters, most of all Esther, who makes bad decision after bad decision in order to advance various plot points. It could be argued, of course, that this is a musical, and realism pretty much flies out the window when it comes to musicals. True, but that doesn't mean you can't have realistic characters making realistic choices when they're not breaking into spontaneous, highly-choreographed dance numbers. (Singin' in the Rain, anyone?)
Dumb fun. I don't regret watching it, but it's not something I'll do again in the near future. ** ?
DVD Review: GREAT CONDITION GREAT FUN
Summary: 5 Stars
i have had several bad experiences recently with items bought from amazon. i have not had the sellers OR amazon even reply to my many requests for attention to them. i was reluctant to purchase again, but we really wanted this movie and its hard to find. we are pleasantly surprised with the great condition and have enjoyed the great memories it has brought us.
i am happy i took the chance.
thank you Michele
Description of Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.One of the finest American musicals, this 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli is an intentionally self-contained story set in 1903, in which a happy St. Louis family is shaken to their roots by the prospect of moving to New York, where the father has a better job pending. Judy Garland heads the cast in what amounts to a splendid, end-of-an-era story that nicely rhymes with the onset of the 20th century. The film is extraordinarily alive, the characters strong, and the musical numbers are so splendidly part of the storytelling that you don't feel the film has stopped for an interlude. --Tom Keogh
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