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Go Fish

starring: Guinevere Turner, V.S. Brodie, T. Wendy McMillan, Anastasia Sharp, Jamika Ajalon
directed by: Rose Troche

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850304
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850300
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 43587
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-07



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Editorial Review:

Description:
A film-festival favorite, this 'groundbreaking picture' (The Hollywood Reporter) is a candidand honest look at women in love that is 'visually audacious, full of surprising charm and highly entertaining' (Variety)! In her directorial debut, Rose Troche (Bedrooms & Hallways), along with her co-writer and lead actress Guinevere Turner, delivers a lively, warm-hearted romantic comedy about the quest for Ms. Right that is 'original, witty and delightful' (Los AngelesTimes)! Feisty, beautiful Max (Turner) is an outgoing young woman looking for romance. Tired of hearing her whine about the missing 'X' factor in her life, Max's roommate sets her up with bashful, olderbut homelyEly (V. S. Brodie). Needless to say, there's no sign of fireworks! But just as Max begins to think that she is destined to be alone forever, she discovers that some oflife's best surprises come in plain, brown paper packages.

Amazon.com:
Go Fish won acclaim in its initial release in 1994, probably because of its irreverence in gazing at the lives of a group of young lesbians in Chicago. The film was directed and cowritten by Rose Troche, who went on to make Bedrooms and Hallways with the help of Guinevere Turner, her then-partner and star of this film. (Turner later appeared in several films and collaborated with director Mary Harron to bring the nearly unadaptable Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho to the big screen.)

Go Fish is an audience film in that it needs a crowd to make its in-joke mentality pulse. In fact, it's hard to believe the film transcended its target demographic despite the fact that in its heart of hearts it's an old-fashioned love story. It feels amateurish upon solo home viewing, though retaining an iota of charm for its low-budget clunkiness and funkiness. While it basically tells the story of a young lesbian (played by Turner) looking for Ms. Right, and conforms to a standard scenario in that love is always found where it's least expected, it benefits mostly from Troche's ability to wring some wit out of 'dyke drama' and, with her insider's point of view, poke gentle fun at it with a relatively sharp stick. --Paula Nechak



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - An excellent document of it's time
Ok, I know that GO FISH has some bad acting. I know that the lines are sometimes self conscious and ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Unwatachable
As a lesbian film, a straight film or just a film in general this is just unwatchable. I just dont get ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Absolutely wonderful
Words can not even begin to express how much I loved this movie. I don't usually like the whole arty/black ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Playing hard to get
Lesbian love story set in Chicago. The two main characters that everyone in lesbian community is trying to ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Without Go Fish there'd be no L Word
Crtiticze all you want, but without Go Fish breaking the ground that it did, we'd have no L Word. While the ... Read More

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