Star 80
by Bob Fosse
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Actor: Carroll Baker, Cliff Robertson, Eric Roberts, Mariel Hemingway, Roger ReesDirector: Bob Fosse
Brand: HEMINGWAY,MARIEL
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Writer: Bob Fosse
Editor: Alan Heim
Producer: Grace Blake
Producer: Kenneth Utt
Producer: Wolfgang Glattes
Writer: Teresa Carpenter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Based on the story of Dorothy Stratten, 1980 Playmate of the Year, Star 80 explores a brief and tragic career that was engineered by Stratten's loutish husband and manager, Paul Snider. Shunned by the rich and powerful people who court his beautiful, ingenuous wife, Snider makes her first the beneficiary and then the victim of his own ambition.Running Time: 105 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&n
DVD Reviews of Star 80
DVD Review: Intersting true story
Summary: 3 Stars
Acting may have been over the top. Interesting to think that this was a true story. Eric Roberts is great!DVD Review: classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Eric Robert's work in Star 80 probably the best acting I have ever seen, bar none.
The film is about Paul Snider, Roberts, and Dorthey Stratton, played by Merrial Hemmingway. Dorthey is the girl next door in Vancover, 1978. She meets Snider in a Dairy Queen. They date, have sex, and Paul soon takes pictures of her and sends them to Playboy, where they are soon published. She is flown to Heffner's mansion and introduced into the stardom and money of Playboy's world.
Stratton makes a great impression, but Paul, a horrible one. Fuzzy mirror dice, bad fur coats and a dollar sign on a neck chain may work on teenagers, but not in the Playboy circle. Paul is a slimey, repulsive little hustler. He cannot disguise this, and his attempts to only reveal him. He can never fit into the big shoes he seeks--made evident when he is dangled from a hotel window by a loan shark who finanaced one of Paul's wet t-shirt contests.
Stratton soon becomes rich and famous and is courted by sophistacated artists and players who sourrounds Heffner. Ironically, she knows how to play the game better then Paul. He tries his Vancover player act on the Playboy people, and it is like a little boy pitching in the majors. He is seen as the small time greaseball he is, and is shut out of Dorthey's new world. Eventually, Dorthey leaves him, but wants to do right. Paul uses this, manipulating her and then almost raping her when she comes to give him money, and then, he kills both her and himself.
"They did this," he says, pulling the trigger.
Roberts works on two condradictory impulses of the audiance in his portrayal of Paul. Paul envokes disgust and pity at the same time. Roberts shows Paul to have no insight into how he destroys everything positive around him by his own posessiveness. Had he said and done nothing, and just enjoyed the ride, what he and Dorthey built might have still been intact.
The process of his ruining everything is slow and painful. Another person may have been able to turn it around at any time. Paul is to consummed with narcisism to see that HE is his own problem. You want to shake the poor fool to give him the answer, but you also want to run as far as you can, fast, from this slimeball.
You can't stand to look at him, but can't look away. Your body actually tenses up seeing Paul on screen. This is master acting by Roberts, and makes what could have been a soap opera a classic movie.
DVD Review: sad ending to a beautiful life
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has the emotion to look inside the world of a young beautiful woman gone before her time. I recommend it as a study in what not to do with your life.DVD Review: NOT IN WIDESCREEN YET
Summary: 5 Stars
Why is this great movie not in widescreen? Its the age of HD. Why are not all movies 16X9?DVD Review: Sad Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Hollywood in the late 70's and early 80's was apparently about the same as Hollywood today,drugs, sleaze- women making a living from their looks and bodies and men making a living from womens looks and bodies. When Vancouver car show promoter Paul Snider (Eric Roberts) "discovered" Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) working behind the counter at a fast food joint, he thought he'd hit paydirt. Snider, aside from his pimpishly tasteless 70's duds and lack of sophistication had a good eye for them, Stratten was a beautiful girl and Playboy and Hollywood were quick to recognize that. And quick to get her away from the man who brought her to the "big dance".
Eric Roberts received much deserved acclaim for his role as the sleazy desperate hustler Snider who see's his little star began to blossom into something better. Hemingway, while not bad, plays a pretty empty role and doesn't exude sexiness or really any lovable innocence as Stratten was said to possess. The film is dark, and the depression and loss for Snider builds into a sad crescendo that while not unexpected is very shocking and depressing in itself.
The writers present a moral equivalence with Hugh Hefner and Paul Snider, the former the worlds best known peddler of girlie mags, the latter a cheap wannabe who nonetheless lived in the same world.One can argue that both men are employed in similar exploitation, and can hypothesise that Hefner might not find his Playmates without the bartenders, strip-club and wet T-shirt promoters like Snider. It's a stretch, as Hefner surely never committed the atrocity of murder-suicide as Snider does. But, if you want to provoke a little thought and look into Showbiz in general, you can't paint Snider merely a domestic abuser when his anger came from losing his wife, but his "ticket" to bigger and brighter things. Drugs and adultry were also major facets of this case, but are hardly mentioned...
Description of Star 80
The story of Dorothy Stratten, Playmate of the Year, who died a tragic death.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-NOV-2004
Media Type: DVD
Legendary director/dancer/choreographer Bob Fosse may have been a consummate entertainer, responsible for popular productions on the Broadway stage, but he was also an uncompromising filmmaker who wasn't afraid to explore the dark side of humanity. After the autobiographical intensity of All That Jazz, Fosse's final film was this honest and painfully authentic biography about Dorothy Stratten, who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 1979 and had just begun a promising film career when her jealous boyfriend took a shotgun to her head. Fosse tackles this brutal reality head on, opening the film with the aftermath of murder and telling the story in flashback, beginning in Vancouver when slick charmer Paul Snider (Eric Roberts, in a chilling performance) discovers Dorothy (Mariel Hemingway) and makes her his ticket to fame and unearned glory. He's a loser and a user, and when Dorothy rises to success and glamour at the Playboy mansion, Hugh Hefner (Cliff Robertson, perfectly cast) urges the blonde beauty to drop her troublesome boyfriend. Jealousy and rejection push Paul over the edge, but Star 80 (the title is taken from Snider's vanity license plates) is no simple tale of male ego gone bad. Fosse explores the chasm between fame and obscurity, and the self-destructive lengths to which some people will go to bridge that gap. The film is a darker telling of the kind of story Boogie Nights would tell nearly 15 years later--both films are set in the late '70s and early '80s, and both deal with the inevitable loss of innocence in a world where innocence cannot survive. In a bleak but fascinating way, Star 80 is masterful in its refusal to look away from the tragedy of its true story. It's a farewell statement from a director who clearly understood the high cost of stardom. --Jeff Shannon
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