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Actor: Alanis Morissette, Ed Begley Jr., Illeana Douglas, Jeff Goldblum, MobyBrand: GOLDBLUM,JEFF
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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DVD Review: Energetic,winning with a capital P,which stands for "Pittsburgh"
Summary: 4 Stars
The highlights of every Summer Season in Pittsburgh,Pa.are the two week runs of The Pittsburgh Light Opera Company's productions of various famous musicals.The gorgeous restored 2000+seat Benendum Theater hosts these shows every season.This is regional theater and it is good.In steps famous actor Jeff Goldblum,a native of Pittsburgh, who takes on a two-week run In Meredith Wilson's iconoclastic "The Music Man." Can he do it? He works hard. The director doesn't believe in him. Does Jeff believe in himself, like the fast-talking Harold Hill that he must portray?
"Pittsburgh" is one energetic and sharply edited semi-"mock/doc" that follows actor Jeff Goldblum back to his native Pittsburgh to discover that acting in "The Music Man" is perhaps harder than his work in The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition), Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition), The Big Chill or Independence Day.
This film is one big stitch,and Jeff Goldblum is so infectious and adorably innocent that I smiled from ear to ear for all 90 minutes of this semi-spoof of an actor returning to his "humble origins."( I have been up to Pittsburgh for these productions and they are good regional shows that act as "Summer Stock" for named actors!...and the theater is bigger than 99% of NYC "houses!") This film is not like the Christopher Guest mockumentaries.It stands on it's own as an hilarious look at the fear that a great one experiences when he has to act in front of his home town.July 13th becomes "Jeff Goldblum Day." Goldblum is amazing in this film!
I met Mr.Goldblum when he was acting in "The Pillowman" on Broadway in 2005.He is a marvelous stage presence and has numerous Broadway stints to his credit.Unfortunately,people that only know him from film think that stage acting is beyond his ken.THIS is what "Pittsburgh" spoofs. Goldblum taps and twizzles his way to the last row of The Benendum and the audience goes wild.The "Hometown Boy" has come home!4 and 1/2 stars!
Description of Pittsburgh
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD
Jeff Goldblum stars in Pittsburgh, a fly-on-the-wall comedy in which the Jurassic Park and Independence Day actor plays himself taking a career hit by playing Harold Hill in a regional theatre production of The Music Man. Despite the pleas of his agent to take a plum part in a new Michael Bay sci-fi epic, Goldblum locks himself into a two-week stint in his hometown of Pittsburgh in order to help his fiancée, actress Catherine Wreford (also playing herself)--cast in the musical as Hill's love interest, Marian--get a green card. The very idea of Goldblum taking on the larger-than-life role of con man Hill is hilarious, and he gamely plays up his absolute unsuitability for the job. While Golblum's anxiety goes up and up over botched rehearsals, other people in his life--especially good friend Ed Begley Jr. and Illeana Douglas--draw him into their own problems (Begley with a failed solar-power machine and Douglas with her ill-fated romance with Moby). Co-directed by Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache (Illeanarama), Pittsburgh is a remarkably energetic movie in which Goldblum appears to be working harder than he ever has before on screen, dancing and singing and throwing himself into a series of demanding scenes that often last no more than a few seconds. This is well worth a visit for fans of Goldblum or anyone who enjoyed the likes of Waiting for Guffman. --Tom Keogh
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