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EdTV (Collector's Edition)

starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau
directed by: Ron Howard

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783236445
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783236441
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 26743
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1999



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Product Description:
Its the unforgettable story of a nobody that everybodys watching. The hilarious story of a total unknown turned celebrity who falls head-over-heels for his brothers girlfriend shari only to discover that their most intimate private moments have just become public entertainment. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Matthew Mcconaughey Woody Harrelson Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Ron Howard

Amazon.com:
The third entry of 1998-99's cinematic TV trilogy kind of got lost in the shuffle following The Truman Show, an art film masquerading as a blockbuster, and Pleasantville, a heartfelt feel-good movie masquerading as a special-effects extravaganza. EDtv is nothing more than it appears: a scruffy comedy about fame and its discontents. Matthew McConaughey stars as Ed, a white-trash rube who gets his own dawn-to-midnight TV series in which every aspect of his life, no matter how sordid or dull or embarrassing, becomes mass entertainment (it inverts Truman by having the protagonist invite the pervasive cameras). Predictably, fame makes him miserable and, unsurprisingly, he finds a way out of his predicament. Albert Brooks covered this same territory in the funnier Real Life, and it's probably not the best idea for a load of comfy celebs to preach to us about how difficult fame is. But the film is cannily cast, including a number of performers who themselves have fallen victim to stupid media tricks (McConaughey, Ellen DeGeneres as the network executive, Elizabeth Hurley as a vamp hitching her star to Ed's, and Woody Harrelson as Ed's even dumber brother). Structurally, the movie is a mess. It looks as if the filmmakers had the choice between making a fully realized, two-and-a-half-hour-long movie that no one would sit through or one that clocks in under two hours but has a lot of plot holes; they opted for the latter (Hurley's character disappears, practically without comment). Still, there are enough laughs to keep things moving, and as a shaggy dog tale it's decent fun. --David Kronke



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good drama-comedy
It's difficult to create a good movie that mixes comedy and drama in a good way. EDtv manages to do ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Fiction Imitates Facts in EDTV
A regular guy named Ed finds his life turned upside down when he is chosen to be the star of a reality ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A keeper.
While not normally my favorite kind of movie, I seem to reach for this movie to watch again and again since ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - ONE OF A KIND
THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH LIKE NEVER.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Save your time
Reality TV is now old hat. Perhaps this movie predicted a bit of that.

The gimmick, however, of ... Read More

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