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Twilight Zone - The Movie

starring: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan
directed by: Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller (II)

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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569816695
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 4730
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1983



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Description:
Four short horrorific tales are anthologized in this film as a tributeto rod serling and his popular tv series.

Amazon.com:
A highly anticipated release for fantasy fans in the summer of 1983, Twilight Zone: The Movie presents three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling's anthology series by a quartet of the biggest directors in Hollywood. With Stephen Spielberg (also the film's co-producer), John Landis, George Miller (The Road Warrior, Happy Feet), and Joe Dante behind the camera for this portmanteau feature, one might expect Serling's episodes to positively gleam with star power, but the truth is that Twilight Zone: The Movie is a hit-and-miss affair. Landis opens with an amusing nod to the original series' pop-culture appeal with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks riffing on their favorite episodes before a hair-raising shock finale; unfortunately, his second offering is a bland morality plan about racial tolerance that will forever be overshadowed by the accident that claimed the lives of star Vic Morrow and two child actors during shooting. Spielberg's take on George Clayton Johnson's 'Kick the Can' looks lovely and is well performed by its cast (especially Scatman Crothers), but it struggles to bear up under the weight of treacley sentiment so common to the director's films at the time. Dante's version of Jerome Bixby's 'It's A Good Life' (about a boy with monstrous powers) is rife with his trademark energy and black humor (and his cast of regular players, including Kevin McCarthy and William Schallert, strike the right balance of terror and comedy). But it's Miller's revamp of Richard Matheson's legendary 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet' that delivers the biggest payoff, thanks to John Lithgow's super-charged turn as a nervous airline passenger who's convinced he's seen a monster tampering with the plane's wing. Burgess Meredith (himself a veteran of the original TZ) provides narration; the widescreen DVD features no extras save for the original trailer and a remastered digital transfer. --Paul Gaita



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Too Affectionate and Sentimental
TWILIGHT ZONE - THE MOVIE made headlines long before it opened when actor Vic Morrow and two Asian ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good versus bad
The movie that was long overdue. It doesn't make the original series look better or worse. And in some ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Makes you wonder....
I tip my hat to the following directors; John Landis, Stephen Speilberg, Joe Dante, George Miller. A FANTASIC ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still Hold Up As A Every Good Movie, Twilight Zone"The Movie"
The Twilight Zone"The Movie" is more than fun, it's a trip into a world of the mind & you'll see thing that ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Underrated
I have read reviews saying that people are disappointed because there was no gore, or disappointed because the transfer ... Read More

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