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Summary: Rancho Deluxe
Review: This is a great story about two buds who just want their share or the modern west without working for it so they rustle cattle. It's a great film with wonderful actors, Jeff Bridges, Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, Elizabeth Ashley and wonderful music by Jimmy Buffett. However, at 93 minutes, a number of things have been cut out and the film suffers for it. I can't justify the thought of anyone making cuts to the movie unless it makes it better. For instance, Star Trek the Motion Picture would benefit if 20 minutes of camera pans were cut out of it. Here the cuts have been made to make the film safe for television, which means, someone else chose what is "safe" for you to watch. I'm sorry, but nobody needs to do that for me, but me. Buy at your own risk.
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Summary: McGuane in the background
Review: This is a movie that last time in terms of its humor. I watch it about once a year just to remind myself just how great it is. It is a dry, strange sense of humor, but if you like Tom McGuane, author of 92 in the Shade and The Sporting Club (two other good movies)and that crazy early seventies counter-culture long hair humor, you'll laugh when things get "down right romantic" with a sharps buffalo rifle. Look for the McGuane cameo during the Jimmy Buffett "Livingston Saturday Night"...
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Summary: I WANT MY MONEY BACK!
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever seen. Evidently, I don't "get it." I didn't think it was funny and the acting was horrible. If I were Jimmy Buffett I would keep quiet about having any thing to do with this film or the brother-in-law who wrote the story. This video is going in the trash, hopefully, to be ground up in little pieces.
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Summary: Very Likeable 70's Movie
Review: Two of the most likeable and enduring actors of the 1970's, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston, teamed up for this 1975 gem. They play a pair of modern day, small-time cattle rustlers. The film is mostly a comedy and mostly a character study, although the plot is quite funny also. The rancher from whom they rustle cattle is quite befuddled and hires Slim Pickens to solve the case. This is the kind of overlooked 1970's movie that has become a bit of a cult classic but deserves greater recognition. Bridges and Waterston also had roles in the disaster "Heaven's Gate," but fans of the actors would be much better off checking out "Rancho Deluxe." Fans of Jimmy Buffet should appreciate his music in the film; he also appears as a singer in a bar scene. This film is also the last good one from director Frank Perry. Before this movie, he directed "David and Lisa," "The Swimmer," and "Last Summer." He later bombed with duds such as "Hello Again" and "Mommie Dearest." A very good, enjoyable movie that 70's film buffs should check out.
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Summary: Very Likeable 70's Movie
Review: Two of the most likeable and enduring actors of the 1970's, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston, teamed up for this 1975 gem. They play a pair of modern day, small-time cattle rustlers. The film is mostly a comedy and mostly a character study, although the plot is quite funny also. The rancher from whom they rustle cattle is quite befuddled and hires Slim Pickens to solve the case. This is the kind of overlooked 1970's movie that has become a bit of a cult classic but deserves greater recognition. Bridges and Waterston also had roles in the disaster "Heaven's Gate," but fans of the actors would be much better off checking out "Rancho Deluxe." Fans of Jimmy Buffet should appreciate his music in the film; he also appears as a singer in a bar scene. This film is also the last good one from director Frank Perry. Before this movie, he directed "David and Lisa," "The Swimmer," and "Last Summer." He later bombed with duds such as "Hello Again" and "Mommie Dearest." A very good, enjoyable movie that 70's film buffs should check out.
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