Roxanne
by Fred Schepisi
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Actor: Daryl Hannah, John Kapelos, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Steve MartinDirector: Fred Schepisi
Brand: MARTIN,STEVE
Producer: Steve Martin
Writer: Steve Martin
Cinematographer: Ian Baker
Editor: John Scott
Producer: Daniel Melnick
Producer: Michael I. Rachmil
Writer: Edmond Rostand
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Roxanne
DVD Review: dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
What a wild and wacky place to find a Fire Chief and a Rocket Scientist, both looking for love. Steve Martin is in excellent form as is Darryl Hannah. The town becomes part of the ensemble, too. Highly recommended, especially if your significant other watches with you.DVD Review: Masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a huge Steve Martin fan, but this film stands alone as his best work. He wrote the screenplay, and then delivers his best acting job by ten miles above any other of his other films. It is quite simply a masterpiece. It is hilarious, witty, romantic, wonderfully filmed, perfectly cast and excellently directed! If you've seen any other Steve Martin movie and thought they were just too stupid to waste your time on, don't lump this film in with those. It stands alone and well above. It is a fabulous film to see again and again!DVD Review: The worst possible DVD edition for this romantic comedy classic.
Summary: 1 Stars
I think we all agree that this 1987 classic romantic comedy is absolutely wonderful, entertaining, magic, funny and hylarious. The best romantic comedy for some, one of the best comedies of the 80's for others. Great story, incredible performance of steve martin , great production and artistic direction by Fred Schepisi. We can argue with that of course, but one thing beyond discussion, is that this Sony Pictures 2002 DVD edition for this masterpiece is so awful, that it manages to destroy the experience.
I had to put up with a VHS edition for 15 years, for what! This? I can say without any doubt, that this is one of the worst DVD editions i own, behind my Asian bootleg martial arts copies. Absolutely awful, this edition manages to restrain the impact of the movie with all the worst features of the fullscreen edition: Extreme close-ups, alternate or moving angles from the same take, chopped off characters from the scenes, people talking to shoulders and corners, people talking from outside the picture, missing scenarios and landscapes, blurry video quality... my god! Not even the 5.1 english soundtrack could emerge, not even the movie could! Extras? The movie trailer...In widescreen! It was torture.
By far, the worst 7 dollars i have ever spent, and a disapointment i'm never gonna forget.
My recomendation for fans looking for this wonderful movie in DVD: Go outside the store and get the widescreen edition, online or on local stores. I'm desperatly seeking for other better editions, i'm even willing to download it, or even buy a bootleg.
Whatever you do: Please, please, don't buy this awful Sony 2002 fullscreen edition.
And Sony pictures: Widescreen versions fit the screen too!
DVD Review: A remake of Cyrano
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a Steve Martin remake of the classic Cyrano. And in my opinion one of his best efforts. (right next to "My Blue Heaven". Of course i bought it. DVD Review: Roxanne
Summary: 4 Stars
Steve Martin is C.D. Bales, a perfect catch for any woman except for one drawback. He has a huge nose. Everyone is hypnotized by it. No one can ignore it. The movie is a take-off on the play, Cyrano de Bergerac. C.D. works for the fire department and falls for Roxanne, an astronomy student. Because of his nose, he courts her through a friend. Romance and humor intertwine. The scene in which Martin enumerates insults about his nose is brilliant.
Description of Roxanne
Updated version of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, with Martin in the role of a long-nosed, poetic fire chief who helps his good-looking assistant win the woman he secretly loves himself.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 4-JUN-2002
Media Type: DVD
In 1987, almost a hundred years after its first production, the romantic story of Cyrano de Bergerac found new life in a winsome film written by Steve Martin. Roxanne updates the tale with a smart '80s spin, yet writer-star Martin stays close to the old-fashioned heart of the matter. He plays a small-town firefighter named C.D. Bales, whose otherwise unremarkable existence is crowned by an amazingly long nose. He falls for the world's most beautiful astronomer (Daryl Hannah), but he is embarrassed by the size of his proboscis and prefers to stay on the sidelines. Like Cyrano, the shy C.D. instead helps a handsome friend (Rick Rossovich) woo the fair lady by providing flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Not only does the story still work, but Australian director Fred Schepisi captures a dreamy grace in his visual design for the film (some of which will be lost without the widescreen format). Set in Washington State, but filmed in the hilly ski resort of Nelson, British Columbia, the location seems like a fairy-tale town, nearly as unreal as Steve Martin's nose. --Robert Horton
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