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Whistle Stopper - Eating Raoul
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Robert Beltran, Richard Blackburn (II), Hamilton Camp, Pamela Carter, Vernon Demetrius
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300247697
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300247694
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 1993-05-19
Running Time: 83
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Summary: Entertaining, screwball dark comedy
Comment: A straight laced couple, surrounded by debauched swingers, dream of opening a restaurant. After a number of setbacks, they hit on a sinister and amusing way of raising cash.
This is a very off the wall movie, and it's well worth seeing.
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Summary: Get Over Yourselves Pompous Ones
Comment: What a bunch of pompous a*****. Get over yourselves and enjoy the movie. It was never meant to be a cinema classic. It's just good adult fun. I liked it in both formats. Aaah to be 22 again!
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Summary: My type of comedy
Comment: This is the best of Paul Bartel. I have worn out a VHS tape watching it.
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Summary: Bad transfer - everyone's short & fat
Comment: Several others have mentioned this. It's true, and it is very noticeable and takes away from the pleasure of watching. The movie is weird, quirky fun, although not for all tastes to be sure. But the short, squat figures just don't look right. And you can't fix it at home. They'd have to re-release it, fat chance with the tiny audience for specialty films. Arrggh.
I kept it anyway, better than nothing. But the shortened, fattened appearance of the actors is a real pain.
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Summary: Eating Raoul - a tasty movie
Comment: Eating Raoul is a good case for not judging a movie by the poster (or box). The stars of this movie include a very straight-laced married couple whose role seems to be making fun of religious conservatives. They play this role in a farcial manner. Equally treatment is given to "swingers" who marked the period in which this movie was made. The swingers are the offset and victims of the stars. The third star of this cult classic is the title character Raoul - their partner in crime. This is not a family movie. You would spend time explaining why the female lead is doing things like dressing as Minnie Mouse and is chased around the room. There is one scene containing nudity of the female lead but this is a sex farce. The whole movie centers around adult themes.
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Editorial Reviews:
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You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighboring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer
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