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India Press Store - Rubin & Ed
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List Price: $89.99
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Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Starring: Crispin Glover, Howard Hesseman, Karen Black, Michael Greene, Anna Louise Daniels
Directed By: Trent Harris
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302483420
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302483425
Label: Columbia/Tri-Star
Manufacturer: Columbia/Tri-Star
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia/Tri-Star
Release Date: 1992-08-26
Running Time: 82
Studio: Columbia/Tri-Star
Theatrical Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Summary: Rubin and Ed Rocks!
Comment: Love this movie, have always loved it. The only way it could be better would be if it were released on DVD but that's not likely to happen. Luckily, I still have a VHS player for just such an occasion. Cult classic and one of my top five movies of all time, maybe even top three. I've been trying for years to find this film, hats off to the power of the internet. I've now been able to share it with my husband and kids and they all love it too, so there's a new generation of fans!
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Summary: A Lucasarts Adventure Game
Comment: If you have ever played a Lucasarts adventure game you'll have a good understanding of how this movie flows. I started to wonder if the score is taken right out of Maniac Mansion of Day of the Tentacle. The palette and color balance reflect the 256 colors provided by later DOS computer games. Even the premise echoes goofy point and click adventure games as our two pathetic protagonists venture cross a desert with various tasks, including burying a soggy kitten and saving each other's lives.
Ed (Howard Hesseman), whose portrayal of frugal desperation easily equals Crispin Glover's on screen tomfoolery, is a washed out real estate agent cum pyramid scheme victim whose anxious quest to hook a sucker leads him to Rubin (Crispin Glover). Rubin's sole concern is to bury his cat and when he finds out that Ed has a car, they hit the road in search for the perfect burial spot.
Along the way we see many beautiful shots, some hilarious freaked-out fantasy sequences, and some entertaining characters. It's a great quirky classic that will leave you feeling rooty-tooty-fresh-and-fruity about the whole watermelon affair...if you like Lucasarts adventure games. Which I do.
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Summary: PLEASE...PUT THIS ON DVD ALREADY!!!!
Comment: I LOVE Crispin Glover!Anything he does is usually BRILLIANT!I've been wanting to check "Rubin & Ed" out for a long time.I just can't see paying $30 for this movie when it's only on vhs.How hard is it to convert this to DVD?Do it already!!!
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Summary: There is a DVD and Anyone would be happy to own one.
Comment: I bought my DVD copy directly from Trent Harris. Use a popular search engine to find him. You can mail him a check or use his email to send money. I got mine very fast.
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Summary: Best of Crispin
Comment: I don't see how anyone can claim to be a "huge fan" of Crispin Glover and not bow down to the genius that this movie is. I don't see how it is not out on DVD, there's no justice in this world. Napoleon Dynamite was a huge success, so we know there's a market for this kind of strange, inexplicable, dry, end of the rope comedy.
Comedy? Okay, it is humid black comedy, beginning from desperate characters with whom no sane person can truly identify, but who require us to continue watching because they and their interactions are just so incongruous with the real world. On second thought, yes there are people like this in the world, and if you search deep inside yourself, you'll find one of them lurking there, scared to come out for fear of being killed off by the superficial normality of what is found "out here."
Now for the part I hope might be found "helpful" to anyone who is looking for "helpfulness" from these reviews; the costumes are great, they match the strangely colorful cinemetography and alternately depressing and vibrant nature of the acting. There is symbolism in the interior set design, as well as the exterior; but the exterior is photographed with a loving regard for the magnificence of the desert. The dialogue is crisp and well handled by the two principles - anyone who finds himself quoting Crispin from "Back to the Future" ("Get your DAMN HANDS OFF HER!") will find many, many more quotable lines in this script, delivered wildly hesitating, as you expect it. These men were more than adept at the burdens they carried, and it gives me great pleasure to say that although I grew up with Howard Hesseman's "Johnny Fever" from WKRP in Cincinnati, I didn't find him an actor with comedic brilliance until I discovered "Ed." This surely has something to do with the disturbing electricity (certainly it can't be easy... mwaahahahahah) that an actor must feel when expected to play off Crispin Glover the madman for the duration of a feature length film.
This is quite simply a masterpiece in every way, there is nothing out of place here and unless you have absolutely no sense of the absurd as hilarious you'll appreciate this work of art. Crispin's done some fine stuff in his time, but this movie is his finest work. Get it out on DVD now!!!
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