Sweet Liberty
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Actor: Alan Alda, Bob HoskinsBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-06-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Sweet Liberty
DVD Review: Patiently waiting ... and waiting ... and waiting
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a fan of most of the Alan Alda films, Sweet Liberty included. (A clue of this might be found in my sign-on name - "Hawkeye".)
Unfortunately, apparently this DVD is only the pan/scan version - modified to fit the soon-to-be-obsolete 3x4 TV screens.
My wait goes on for widescreen DVD's of some of the best of the ALAN ALDA films, including Sweet Liberty, A New Life, and especially The Seduction of Joe Tynan (my favorite of these three yet to be released)!
Come on studios - It's way past time to release these and many other classic (and still very popular) films of the 70's and 80's in WIDESCREEN!
Incidentally - I do not necessarily agree with all of Alan Alda's politics - but I find his expression of them to be sincere, honest, and intelligent. I do not agree with the reviewer that found a hidden guilt as the subconscious motive for Sweet Liberty. Yes, there were some "liberties" taken on M*A*S*H - however, I never found them to be insulting to the audience as would be the liberties taken in the movie-within-a-movie in Sweet Liberty. I believe that SL is more of a commentary on Hollywood's apparent inclination to twist facts to their own liking (and profit taking). M*A*S*H on the other hand, from what I have read and understand about the show, particularly after the first couple seasons, made a very real and concerted effort to research actual M*A*S*H units, interview patients and doctors, etc - in order to present the stories as authentically as possible. I may not have always agreed with the message, but I do not have any criticism for the way the message was delivered. This was not intended to be a review of M*A*S*H, but, since I consider it to be the best television show of all time, and a show which just gets better with time, and that got better with each subsequent season, I just wanted to reply to the reviewer that seemed to be criticising it.
Description of Sweet Liberty
SWEET LIBERTY - DVD MovieAlan Alda's follow-up to the hit comedy The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty is an intermittently successful and lighthearted comedy that imagined what would happen if the past and present collided via Hollywood. It also provided a blueprint for David Mamet's State & Main, which took a similar premise and satirically ran amok with it. A local history professor who writes a surprise bestseller about the Revolutionary War, Alda is a man contending with a fairly mundane life until a Hollywood film crew shows up in his hometown to turn his book into a movie--one that?s filled with loads of sex and violence, unlike the scholarly tome it's based on. And the drama that's being filmed soon spills over to real-life, as Alda falls in love with the actress playing his book's heroine, and his fiancée (Lise Hilboldt) becomes enamored of the movie's leading man. Alda and Hilboldt may be the film's central couple, but it's the movie stars they're fascinated with who will catch your eye: Michael Caine, right before he embarked on his career renaissance, and a young Michelle Pfeiffer, who for the first time got to show off her beguiling comic side. As the lothario leading man with eyes for any woman who crosses his path, Caine is the kind of charming cad you can never really hate for too long. And Pfeiffer, who gets the benefit of playing both the innocent maiden of the movie-within-the-movie and her neurotic, real-life counterpart, neatly tucks the movie into her bodice and saunters off with it. --Mark Englehart
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