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All of Me [1984]
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Steve Martin takes his wild and crazy persona and splits it into an hilarious battle of the sexes within the same body. Ambitious attorney RogerCobb is assigned to alter the will of ailing millionaire Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), who wishes to bequeath her estate to a healthy young woman (Victoria Tennant)--after Cutwater's guru transfers the old eccentric's soul to her healthy body. No one believes for a second it will actually work until Ms. Cutwater awakens in Roger's body and he becomes, literally, a man possessed, fighting for control of himself. Martin delivers a hilariously animated performance as a body torn between two masters as it wrestles with itself in a spastic walk down a city street. Directed with comic aplomb by regular Martin collaborator Carl Reiner, All of Me combines the best of Martin's self-scripted films--anarchic moments of inspired physical comedy--with a solid (if somewhat silly) narrative holding the scenes together. Screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson went on to script and direct Field of Dreams. --Sean Axmaker
Agreeable enough comedy ruined by incompetent DVD transfer
Review date: 2002-03-10 Rating: 2 out of 10
I saw this film in the cinema when it was originally released, had it on VHS, and watched it a year or so ago on BBC1: it never once looked like this tragic cock-up of a transfer, in miserable pan-and scan, in which Steve Martin's light grey suit comes out camouflage green, and all flesh tones are a sort of bluey-lilac; everything else is in a sort of grainy sludge-sepia, so that the interiors of Martin's office and Tomlin's mansion are largely indistinguishable. The sound is also apalling, most definitely not in the advertised stereo so much as badly distorted mono. This is the worst DVD transfer of a picture from a major studio I've ever seen...
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Martin plays a lawyer one side of whose body becomes a woman
Review date: 2000-12-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
If you have watched some of Martins' films such as Father of the Bride or Mixed Nuts you may not be a big fan of his. But this is one of his classics. Martin gives an exquiste performance as he plays a body that is half man and half woman. Check out his hilarious walk. A must for any collection.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Richard Libertini
Lily Tomlin
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Steve Martin
Victoria Tennant
Creators:
Steve Martin (Primary Contributor)
Lily Tomlin (Primary Contributor)
Richard H. Kline (Cinematographer)
Bud Molin (Editor)
Phil Alden Robinson (Producer)
Phil Alden Robinson (Writer)
Stephen J. Friedman (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
EAN: 9786305262220
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 6305262225
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, PAL,
Release date: 1999-02-02
Universal product code (UPC): 031398700135
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
DVD layers: 1
DVD sides: 1
Picture format: Pan & Scan
Running time: 93 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1984-09-21
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)