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Victor/Victoria

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790746777
Format: Digital Sound, Dolby, Widescreen
ISBN: 0790746778
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 4042
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1982

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Blake edwards brilliantly bubbly gender-bending comic musical about a singer who pretends to be a female impersonator and becomes the toast of the 1934 paris cabaret scene. Special featuers: subtitles in english french spanish portuguese japanese chinese thai and korean: and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/22/2003 Starring: Julie Andrews Robert Preston Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Pg

Amazon.com essential video:
Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews (the former Mary Poppins) in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act in which Victoria assumes the identity of a man in drag. So, in other words, Andrews plays a woman playing a man playing a woman ... and that's only the beginning of the sexual identity confusions that provide the fuel for this splendidly classy slapstick musical farce. (Yes, it's all those things.) James Garner, as a Chicago club owner, finds himself strangely besotted with this stylish, androgynous creature--even though he thinks Victor/Victoria is a man. Legendary Hollywood composer Henry Mancini (a longtime collaborator with Edwards) won his last Oscar for the score; Andrews, Preston, and Lesley Ann Warren, as Garner's cheeky girlfriend, were also nominated. Musical highlights include Victor/Victoria's sizzling 'Le Jazz Hot' (in which Andrews shows off her incredible vocal range); another showstopper for Victor/Victoria, 'The Shady Dame from Seville'; Preston's witty ode to 'Gay Paree'; Warren's hilarious burlesque number, 'King's Can-Can'; and a charmingly casual yet elegant side-by-side number, 'You and Me,' done in a small club by Preston and Andrews in tuxedos. --Jim Emerson




Rating: - This is one hot number...
For anyone who thinks that Julie Andrews is nothing more than a mere song and dance routine, or the ... Read More

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Rating: - Ensemble Perfection
Other comedies might be funnier, but few compare to the nearly perfect total ensemble performance turned ... Read More

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Rating: - fantastic film
This film always makes me smile. It is a joy to watch. I enjoy showing this film to all of my friends and ... Read More

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Rating: - "A woman...pretending to be a man...pretending to be a woman? It's preposterous!"
Mostly it's because the characters are so very likable. Absolutely, VICTOR/VICTORIA triumphs on the strength ... Read More

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Rating: - Victor Victoria
Excelent. I feel very satifaied for the good service that you provide I recived the dvd soonner than I expected ... Read More

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