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Summary: A True Gem!
Review: I watched Dogfight at the Cinema when I was visiting San Francisco and I loved it. I would have to say my favourite River Phoenix film ever. Very emotional & touched me so much. Unfortunately I have only ever seen it for sale in the UK once & I had no money. When I returned days later it was gone. Shame American VHS does not work over here. I would love to have a copy.
My search goes on.
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Summary: I never had a favorite movie until I saw Dogfight
Review: Imagine a young handsome marine, drinking, smoking and cussing on his way to find the ugliest "date." Imagine a homely waitress, overweight and timid, cautiously strumming away at her guitar. The two would make an unlikely pair if there ever was one. Yet, somehow nothing seems so right as the love they will share. This movie takes place almost entirely in one night. It seems hard to put to words how this movie makes you feel. It made my heart break because it felt so true. It made me believe, again, in the power of love. It'll make you believe too.
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Summary: Excellent movie
Review: It's a shame that River Phoenix died because he was shaping up to be one of the most talented male actors. Before the over-sentimentalized "Forrest Gump," there was "Dogfight"--a simple story of two opposites during the Vietnam era, who spend the night with each other and face their deepest fears. You may feel you've seen all the 1960s era films but "Dogfight" is intimate and impresive. It's probablly one of the all-time romances because of its simplicity. Hopefully it will become more well-known. In these times of such split social issues, this is a moving & human story about coming together.
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Summary: One of my top 10
Review: It's easy to overlook this film as "another River Phoenix flick" but it's really much more. I first saw this last fall on television and instantly fell in love. The (hardly) basic love story felt so real. The characters were well scripted and actually had depth (which appears to be lacking in a lot of Phoenix's films). The only thing missing would be a DVD version of the film.
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Summary: Why don't you watch it....it's Romantic!!!
Review: It's the most romantic movie i've ever seen.River Phoenix was playing a great role there...i love this movie the most,so why don't you watch it??
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Summary: Great little movie
Review: Its one of the sweetest, most touching movies I have seen in awhile. I miss River very much.
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Summary: great movie
Review: Lily Taylor is great in this movie. Captures San Francisco of another era.
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Summary: Little known gem
Review: One night while flipping around the cable channels I landed on a scene that compelled me to stay put: a group of callous young 60's-era Marines at a party pretending to be nice to their homely "dates", only barely covering their true intent of humiliating them in a secret competition to escort the one judged the ugliest (hence the name of the movie, after this "game"), with the winner receiving a cash prize. But before it's over one of the women (Lili Taylor) catches on, and delivers a passionate, disquieting denouncement of not only the treatment she received from her uncomfortable escort Eddie (River Phoenix) and his friends, but their complete disregard for the feelings of the other women. Rather than delivering a hysterical diatribe, Lili Taylor showed in her speech the depth and integrity of her character, while remaining vulnerable and awkward and hurt and unsure. Despite the late hour, I stayed with the film to the end and delighted in finding an unpretentious, intelligent, subtle coming of age story that continually developed its characters in more and more believable ways to a powerful, if quiet, conclusion.Set in San Francisco just before the JFK assassination, Rose (Taylor) and Eddie (Phoenix) overcome the questionable beginnings of their relationship and spend a long night tentatively exploring the town and each other before Eddie ships out to Okinawa on his way to some little country called Viet Nam. Phoenix delivers a superb performance as a young man on the verge of many revelations about his world and himself. He carefully unveils Eddie's willingness to work past his macho conformity and see Rose for who she really is without resorting to cliche or uncharacteristic sensitivity (the sexual revolution and women's rights are still only blips on the horizon). Taylor imbues the role of Rose with a fascinating complexity: shy but unafraid, principled but mischievous, practical but romantic, not classically pretty but revealing her down-to-earth appeal bit by bit as her comfort with Eddie grows. Meanwhile, their adventures are paralleled by the far more conventional let's-paint-the-town-red hijinks of Eddie's three buddies who are shipping out with him the next morning. Director Nancy Savoca is masterful in her balancing of storylines and characters, and evoking the setting and the era through the music Rose loves - the just-emerging protest tunes of Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, et al. You can feel the sands shifting under your feet as the age of innocence begins to give way to the age of outrage. And the last scene is terrific in its understatement in the midst of a sea change. My only quarrel with this wonderful movie is the San Francisco of a few years later, after the upheaval of the counter-culture. Did EVERYONE wear tie-dyed hairbands and fringed vests and frizzed hair?? Maybe they did, but the transformation was jarring in this otherwise beautifully understated film. However, if that's the worst I can say, I consider myself very lucky to have happened upon this touching, smart movie.
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Summary: Very Suprised!
Review: The first time i saw this movie was at my sister house a few years ago. I was bored and there was nothing really good on so i was flipping through the channels for like a half an hour when i came across this movie on encore and once i started watching it i just couldn't stop. It's one of the best movies i have ever seen!
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Summary: Beautiful movie!
Review: The movie "Dogfight" is for anyone with a heart. It's got everything a person could want in a movie - romance, adventure, a little bit of suspense... There is nothing better than this movie. Lili Taylor gives an exelent performance as Rose, River Pheonix's "ugly" date for the evening. Now, I've seen this movie about twenty times, and each time I am pulled into this wonderful love story. Anyone who has a soul will love this movie.
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