Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
by Howard Zieff
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Actor: Armand Assante, Eileen Brennan, Goldie Hawn, Robert Webber, Sam WanamakerDirector: Howard Zieff
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-10-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: One of the best feminist movies of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Private Benjamin is one of the best feminist movies of all time; showing that catching a wealthy, handsome man is not all it's cracked up to be. Judy Benjamin starts out with the belief that getting married will complete her. She finds out through joining the army, that life is about what you make of yourself, not how men or society judges you to be! I love this movie. Bravo to Goldie Hawn for making this movie! It's entertaining, very meaningful, and very funny!DVD Review: A spoiled rich gal joining the Army
Summary: 5 Stars
PRIVATE BENJAMIN is a hilarious movie about a spoiled rich gal(Goldie Hawn) who ends up joining the Army to start a new life after having 2 failed marriages and becoming a widow after only 6 hours of her 2nd marriage and even gets her parents so worried leading them to believe she's missing unaware that Judy Benjamin(Goldie Hawn) has joined the Army, but when her parents lay out all the cards on the table on the night Benjamin was about to DOR, Benjamin decides to stick it out by staying in the Army and improves tremendously kind of like Bill Murray did in the movie STRIPES, which by the way was released only a year later after PRIVATE BENJAMIN was, since PRIVATE BENJAMIN was released in 1980 and STRIPES was released in 1981, which takes me back to memory lane to my childhood days of living in the Imperial Valley since I was living in my hometown(El Centro, CA) at the time where I lived at for 21 years.
In addition to what makes this movie so comical, Benjamin joins the Army with false expectations not realizing how tough it really is and having a tough time keeping up with the rules, which was very similar to how it was in the movie STRIPES.
As a matter of fact, it just so happens that P.J. Soles(Private Winter) was also in the movie STRIPES too although PJ Soles wasn't as noticable having short dark brown hair in PRIVATE BENJAMIN instead of having ashy blonde hair like she did in STRIPES, HALLOWEEN, and CARRIE, but I was amused by the part when Private Winter(PJ Soles) gets caught doing hubba hubba in the tent with Craig T. Nelson by Private Benjamin(Goldie Hawn)and her fellow soldiers during their scavenger hunt in the middle of the movie.
Additionally, PRIVATE BENJAMIN was such a popular movie that they even ended up making PRIVATE BENJAMIN a series on CBS in the Fall of 1981, which co-starred Hal Williams and Eileen Brennan, but had Lorna Patterson playing Judy Benjamin instead of Goldie Hawn, but unfortunately the series PRIVATE BENJAMIN flopped after only a few months which resulted in the show being cancelled in 1982, which also takes me back to when we had all those budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was president.
DVD Review: Amusing and Interesting Film! Too Bad About the DVD!
Summary: 1 Stars
Goldie Hawn was hilarious in "Foul Play" when I first saw it all those years ago and she shows another dimension to her acting and now screenwriting in "Private Benjamin". I remember years ago when I first saw this that I laughed a lot more but I guess it's understandable as very few comedies age very well as they tend to be dated to the times that they were written for and this film is no exception.
Thankfully this film is not just a comedy as it still retains its ability to entertain and amuse despite the time-decayed nature of most of the jokes because it is also a very good story about how a spoilt, dependent young woman becomes emancipated and self-confident to be better able to identify various attempts to exploit and manipulate her with her passing the final test at the end with the jerk she's supposed to marry. Goldie Hawn shows in this film that she's not just a comedianne but that she's also a serious actress and the scenes when she is upset and reaching out for help on the radio chat show for example were quite moving. This is the best Goldie Hawn film that I've seen.
As a result, the film retains its ability to still amuse and entertain despite the poor aging of most of the gags. Unfortunately, the quality of this dvd version of the film is very, very poor. Both the picture (especially the picture) and sound quality are abysmal and there are no special features worth mentioning. Fans of the film should give this particular dvd version a wide berth and wait for either a standard or Blu-ray format with much improved picture restoration and sound quality remastering with at least 5.1 surround sound options in an anamorphic widescreen format to surface.
DVD Review: Private Benjamin
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie was great when it came out and it still is when I viewed it on DVD. I had to wait a little longer because the postman missed sorted it and Turner and Hooch sent them both to somewere on the west side of of Michigan and it had to be re sorted and then delivered to my address.DVD Review: Cute Goldie Hawn comedy,
Summary: 3 Stars
but, lets face it she been cute for years, still is. Spoiled, rich, princess, marries, hubby dies on their wedding nite. She's depressed and dispondent, so when better to make a life altering decision? She joins the army, and the comedy begins. Nothing eye opening, just a cute comedy starring cute Goldie. Enjoy!
Description of Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
Goldie Hawn wins the Comedy Medal of Honor in this box-office smash about a pampered, upper-middle class princess who joins "today's Army." Eileen Brennen and Armand Assante co-star. Year: 1980 Director: Howard Zieff Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennen, Armand AssanteA pampered socialite (Goldie Hawn) is so distraught after the wedding-night death of her husband (Albert Brooks) that she up and joins the Army. She whines, she pouts, she brings the corps down, until, of course, she gets with it. Eileen Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as the butch Captain Doreen Lewis, Benjamin's nemesis. Funny and winning, the film takes an odd turn when Benjamin is assigned to the international theater and gets involved with a dour Frenchman (Armand Assante). Of course, it's all part of Benjamin's growth as a person, and the part confirmed that Hawn had gone from a go-go girl to a "you go" girl. --Keith Simanton
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