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India Press Store - Gift (Jane's Addiction)
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Starring: John Walton Smith Jr., Reynaldo Rey, Florence Griffith Joyner, Willie Amakye, Perry Farrell
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302881035
Format: Color
ISBN: 630288103X
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1993-08-24
Running Time: 80
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
Theatrical Release Date: 1988-11-12
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Summary: love it
Comment: this movie is great, i wish it was in dvd tho, i'm totally over watching vhs. but yet i do to watch GIFT. i would like to also give credit to my old friend valerie kendall, for her wonderful, presence in this film. and casey niccoli, did a great job making and writing this, with perrys help.
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Summary: Beautiful and sad.
Comment: Gift is an odd mixture of things: a collection of concert footage from Ritual De La Habitual-era Jane's Addiction, beautifully surreal attempts at amateur filmmaking, and most importantly, a wide variety of intimate (not always sexual) moments between Perry Farrell and then-wife Casey Niccoli. It's a gorgeous film because it smacks of honesty: a semi-autobiographical look at two very unusual and flawed people who love each other boundlessly, even beyond death. It's by turns humorous, flawed, surreal, painful to watch, and absolutely aching with emotion. I love it. It's one of my favorite films of all-time. Highly recommended for all the skewed romantics out there.
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Summary: Romantic Ecstasy in ART
Comment: Put aside the drugs and the sex, although crucial componenets, as another reviewer stated it is mainly about LOVE. Love of another, love of music, love of art, love of self. This is the best low-budget movie I have ever seen because it captures the tone of Jane's Addiction, Perry himself, and the Ritual album to perfection. When I see this video it makes me feel exactly how the album does. I enjoyed seeing the actual album artwork from Ritual and Nothing's Shocking. Perry is such a prescence that acting skill could be mediocre and still captivates the viewer. In all of its suppossed vulgarity it didn't come across as so to me where in other films it certainly would have. I think Perry is amazing and I think the love he and Casey had was so mystical in itself. I think that love although dark was quite pure and definitely inspiring. I am continually inspired by the classic girl video and it was nice to see more footage of their Santeria wedding. It is so romantic and powerful. I feel anyone, even non-Jane's fans should watch this film if they consider themselves a lover of great music in general. It encapsulates a time in rock n roll by a very pionerring band. Gift is a gift to everyone who views it whether they know it or not. Beautiful!!!!!!!
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Summary: Disturbing, Chilling, and It Rocks
Comment: Any movie put out by a musician is going to be geared toward their particular fan base. This movie is no different. However, I get the feeling that even if a person was not a fan, and they kept an open mind toward the message this film is putting across, that there is a chance that they could enjoy this twisted tale of love and drug addiction.
While recording an album, Perry's common-law wife (there is footage of their santeria wedding on here in "flashback"), overdoses on heroine. He comes home to find her dead, and instead of immediately calling the police, he bathes and prepares her body, and it is implied that he actually has sex with her corpse. Sick? Well, duh... yeah.
Yet, when you sit and watch this movie, and put yourself in Perry's place, even if you have no necrophiliac tendencies (the author assures all readers that she has no such tendencies!), you can sympathize with him. After all, if you came home to find the love of your life dead, wouldn't you want to pay your last respects in private, without the rush of authorities coming to take the person away from you in a terrible state? Would you want all these people touching and hauling off your loved one before you could say good-bye in your own way? Not everyone reacts to death and grief in the same manner and the assumption that people do is poignantly addressed.
Granted, Perry is no actor, but he pulls this off with an amazing sense of sincerity that really hits home.
There are some funny parts, particularly at the beginning, and the rooster that roams their house is oddly hilarious, especially when one knows that this truly was one of their pets.
Perry is an intelligent person with intelligent points to put across. This shows in his music, this movie, and countless interviews when he is not discussing alien visitations. Intelligence and talent have always attracted me to this band, and "Gift" is just another example of this.
If you are a fan, as I am, there is no question that you will enjoy this movie. If you are not, you will likely enjoy it anyway provided you are into dark and introspective stories.
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Summary: Underrated
Comment: I can't count how many times I've gotten together with friends, smoked grass and watched this movie. I own a rapidly decaying copy of this that was used and abused by a previous owner who must have loved it as much as I do. Like the other reviewers have already mentioned, this is a simple "what if" about Perry and Casey's romance in the early 90's. While Perry is recording "Three Days," Casey buys some smack, shoots up and overdoses. Perry comes home to find his wife dead and makes love to her body, but not before getting high off of the leftover supply. Through the movie we get treated to live performances by Jane's, footage of the couple's Santeria wedding, multiple scenes of drug use and two of the ugliest, stupidest most beligerant cops in cinema history. Those pigs are the kind of people you'd want to see with Ice T and Body Count in the back of an L.A. club. This movie is not Citizen Kane. If you don't like Jane's or at least tolerate them, you won't like the picture. Some of the support acting is lame (Misstress Kiki, Marty, Pizza Dude) and there are some rather nasty injection shots. However, the camerawork is totally awesome, some of the actors are incredibly good (Perry, Casey, the Doctor, the Cops), the music is beyond good. The overall VIBE of the movie is beautiful. Some of the scenes make my friends and I just stop talking and really watch: the scoring scenes (valuable knowledge for users), Casey's overdose (the bloody injection coupled with the incessant knocking at the door is downright scary), Perry crying over his wife's corpse, and the final interrogation scene. If there is one thing in this world that will make you despise cops, its the interrogation scene. The whole movie is a celebration of freedom coupled with the nasty consequnces. It is a balanced movie. The junkies are beautiful, but their dead and incarcerated too. This movie is a remarkable little flick that just might move you. A weird little bit of history for those of us who were too young to be shooting smack and head banging to Jane's in the early 90's.
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