Reign Over Me (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Banks, Melinda Dillon, Robert KleinBrand: Sony
Cinematographer: Russ T. Alsobrook
Composer: Rolfe Kent
Editor: Steve Edwards
Editor: Jeremy Roush
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Reign Over Me (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Reign Over Me
Summary: 5 Stars
Adam Sandler takes on a role that challenges his acting range. He plays a depressed middle age man who wants nothing to do with the world. Don Cheadle plays a Dentist who runs into Sandler's character on the street. Cheadle and Sandler used to be college roommates studying to become dentists. The two start talking and catching up. Cheadle soon realizes that Sandler needs mental help and tries to get it for him. Sandler wants nothing to do with it. This is a very sad movie and Adam Sandler as well as all the other actors do a superb job. I highly recommend this movie. But beware if you are expecting a comedy performance from Sandler. A+DVD Review: I dont know why I love it so much.
Summary: 5 Stars
I wont go on with an extensive review here, as I think there are enough. I will say that this movie sparks a range of emotions within me every time I watch it. I laugh one moment, cry(or try not to) the next. I dont read into all the character development, or the 9/11 storyline like most of the negative reviewers have. I watch and enjoy. Every single time. DVD Review: Grief can be your worst enemy!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have always been touched when i watch ANYTHING about 9-11. this movie took it's toll, to see adam sandler typical humorous and charming actor, play this horribly sad and grieving husband and father was amazing!! what a sad life to lead and the worst part about that is that alot of people faced the same hurtles in NY after this happened......DVD Review: Adam Sandler's best movie. Just wow.
Summary: 5 Stars
That's it in a nutshell. Everyone knows that Don Cheadle is a good actor but Adam Sandler? That remark would have been a joke a few years ago when Sandler was churning one offensive, comedy after another but not now. He still does his lame comedies and I really wish he would do more drama as clearly he can do drama with movies like "Punch-Drunk Love".
Anyways, it's about time we had more movies dealing with people dealing with the post 9/11 aftermath. Hell, Hollywood has milked the event to produce one war movie after another so this was a refreshing change.
Sandler plays Charlie Fineman, a guy living like a kid, in his own world. However, we see this as a front for the real pain and agony he has experience since 9/11 (as he lost his family in that event). Little by little Charlie's shows signs of anger, grief, insanity, and periods of illusion as he is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
I love Sandler in this, he totally "gets" the role. I liked his character more than Alan Johnson who was totally shall we say ungrateful of the life he has and the life Charlie doesn't have. Johnson tries to get Charlie better but fails until he meets Angela Oakhurst a psychologist/shrink played excellently by Liv Tyler. Man she is beautiful and so talented. Anyways, Angela tells Johnson the diagnosis. However, trouble is ahead as Charlie's behavior has prompted the courts to decide whether he should be committed for some outrageous behavior.
Besides capturing the character of someone suffering from the events of 9/11 this movie is another commentary on the way society perceives such victims. We feel sorry but we do really want to be around? Especially people like Charlie who has obvious issues. The answer doesn't seem as comforting as most people will admit. I think some people who will sympathize with Charlie's "situation" will only do so up to a certain point and then expect them to move on from the event like nothing ever happened. Of course that is the worst thing they could do yet they do it. Alan's friendship with has certain limits. Charlie's own family in disgusting fashion seems doesn't seem to consider the pain that he is in instead of concentrating on who they lost, not who they are losing (that is still alive) right in front of them.
Anyways, this is a great movie, judging by the wide number of reviews "Reign Over Me" will be held as a great movie for a long time.
DVD Review: Love and Friendship Rule in Reign Over Me
Summary: 5 Stars
The nonstop reverberating horror of September 11, 2001, has spawned a number of notable films and REIGN OVER ME deserves a place among them. The opening scenes of the movie are brilliantly simple, starting with Adam Sandler as Charlie Fineman gliding through New York City on his scooter like an overgrown kid floating through a dream until awakened from it by his former college roommate, Don Cheadle as Alan Johnson.
The light comic tone set by writer and director Mike Binder at the beginning of "Reign Over Me" allows viewers to become comfortable with the idea of a new and unique kind of "guy movie." We settle down to be entertained by former roommates who re-enter each other's life and presumably will experience all kinds of hilarity as a result. That presumption, it turns out, reveals only a very small part of a very big story. A current popular expression states that "People come into our lives for a reason." But in the case of this movie, we might change it to "People come back into our lives for a reason."
The more Charlie and Alan reintegrate themselves into each other's life, the more clear it becomes that both are living with deeply hidden wounds that block their desire for happiness. In Alan's case, it's his seeming dissatisfaction with a marriage in which he has begun to feel stifled and his frustration with the bossy partners in a small but successful dental clinic that he established. On the other hand, Charlie's primary issue appears to be a case of burned-out stoner until we learn that he lost his wife and children on 9/11. Years after the event, the blow is still such a devastating one that he can barely function outside of riding his scooter, sitting in as a drummer on late-night club jam sessions, and playing electronic games. Millions of dollars collected in insurance money don't help much either. The loss of his family has left him so detached from any sense of connection and ordinary emotions that he is completely devoid of compassion when Alan's father dies. Upon hearing the news, instead of nodding with understanding when Alan declines his invitation to hang out and eat Chinese food, Charlie tells him, "Come on, don't be such a p_ssy."
As heavy as "Reign Over Me" can get at times, it also contains a lot of feel-good moments as well, such as when Saffron Burrows, as Alan's patient Donna Remar, innocently declares she would have sex with him if he wished just so she can get the urge to do so out of her system. It's also genuinely moving to see the support that Charlie and Alan try to provide each other as they confront their individual demons/dilemmas. In addition, Jada Pinkett Smith as Alan's wife, Liv Tyler as Charlie's therapist, and Donald Sutherland as a judge round out a powerful supporting cast.
What we witness at the end of "Reign Over Me," with the sound of Pearl Jam wailing soul-ripping angst in the background, is a man with a brutally broken heart struggling to find enough faith and strength to help him believe that his life can somehow become good and worth living again. It's not hard to identify with Charlie because the pain he continues to feel, even as he takes steps toward healing himself, makes a perfect symbol for the pain people all over the world continue to feel and live following September 11, 2001, seven whole years ago as of this writing.
By Author-Poet Aberjhani
author of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love
and The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Description of Reign Over Me (Widescreen Edition)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/28/2008 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: ROne of the first films to examine the aftermath of post- 9/11 New York City, Reign Over Me shows how much even indirect contact with those who lost loved ones in the tragedy can greatly affect. Like rings of debris spiraling out from an explosion, Charlie Fineman's (Adam Sandler) loss also devastates his in-laws, who he refuses to speak to, and ex-college roommate, Alan Johnson. Reign Over Me stars Johnson, a successful dentist with a gorgeous wife, Janeane (Jada Pinkett Smith) and two kids, who finds Charlie reverted back into a teenage wasteland, unable to face his unbearable sadness. Sandler as Charlie looks like Bob Dylan and acts like Dustin Hoffman in his great dramatic performance. Listening to The Who and The Boss through headphones, playing video games, and continually remodeling his kitchen, Fineman's escapism disturbs Johnson, who, in turn, feels squelched by his stiflingly normal lifestyle. As the two reacquaint, Johnson is the only person who can help save Fineman from self-obliteration. The story analyzes Post Traumatic Stress with some accuracy, though excess sentimentality undermines emotional scenes. Survivor's guilt, assessing mental illness, and absolute incapacitation due to grief are all topics covered within the bounds of the enduring friendship forged between these two men. Ultimately, Reign Over Me's message is one of compassion, as a reminder to treat victims of loss with patience and care. But interestingly, it also pays heed to smaller human tribulations, which are obstacles to healing when left untreated. --Trinie Dalton
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