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Summary: Horrible Disc
Review: Savannah Smiles is a five-star movie beyond any doubt. It is the kind of clean, entertaining, well-told story that all children's movies should be. There is very little foul language in it, so the PG rating is deserved; otherwise this has all the ingredients of a G movie that can keep an audience of all ages interested.The PFE disc, however, is miserable. I have seen better quality on Japanese region-free video CD's. Can you say huge boxy pixels boys and girls? The graininess of the disc is beyond grainy. It's like a 4th or 5th generation VHS copy, or like satellite TV in snow or heavy rain. The sound and washed-out color match the grain. I strongly recommend a high quality DVD player if you wish to view the PFE disc without video hang-ups. I tried several players before it actually cooperated with one. This is a story that a high-dollar studio needs to buy rights to, then remaster in the best format available and ask whatever price they want. From what I have seen on web auction sites, and what I have seen from PFE, the next authoring studio of Savannah Smiles could easily get their asking price, even if it is slightly beyond reason.
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Summary: 5 for the movie -2 for the quality
Review: This is a great movie. The problem is the quality of this DVD is AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. It looks like someone took a camera and shot it at a poor VHS copy of the movie. I've seen movie theater bootlegs better quality than this! Maybe the VHS is better, but warning, the DVD is BAD BAD BAD quality. I'm not being overdramatic. Try to find a better quality release.
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Summary: Very poor quality
Review: This was one of my favorite movies as a child. I was very excited when I saw that I could order this movie on DVD. I am so disappointed in the quality. I agree with a previous reviewer the sound and picture are terrible. I also feel like I wasted my money. I had anticipated better. I would NOT recommend purchasing this on DVD.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: This is a great movie, a must see!!! I should know I've seen it at least a hundred times. When my mom first saw this movie she loved it so much she named me after it!!!!
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Summary: Great Family Movie!
Review: I recently (9/03) bought the DVD released by Pacific Family Entertainment, and I feel I must warn buyers that the DVD I received is a very poor quality copy. The sound is plain awful, the picture is barely watchable. It's too bad, because the movie is very sweet. <sigh> If a better quality DVD is released, I would buy another copy. Though I have waited such a long time to see this movie released on DVD, I have to say I feel I wasted my money on a very inferior copy. What a disappointment.
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Summary: My daughter too was named after this movie.
Review: My daughter was born July 7th 2003 and I have liked the name Savannah ever since I was a young girl and watched the movie. Savannah made me laugh and cry. This movie makes me think of my 4 daughters and I realize that life is to short to be short with my children for they are only young for a short time. I let them make their own decisions to an extent but with parental guidance all the same. My Savanah is hospitalized and she is my "ANGEL" and a great gift from God. Cherish this movie because it is worth all 5 stars.
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Summary: This is a Winner!
Review: I have watched this movie many times, and I always find it intertaining, funny and heartwarming. It's a story of a little girl who gets little attention at home. She decides to run away, and sneaks into an old car that was stolen by some clumsy, not so smart criminals. The language could be a little rough for young viewers, and children should be cautioned that you should not get into strange cars, as the little girl in the movie did.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: It was filmed here in the Salt Lake City Utah area, back when I was just starting up my own family. Liberty park (where Savannah hides in the crooks' car) is a familiar landmark - as it was in the movie, tho now much has changed. So the movie has this local appeal for me as well. I have to agree with the point about modern kidnappings changing the way we look at this story: Elizabeth Smart's disappearance and return (ironically in the very same area "Savannah Smiles" was filmed) has emphasized how (allegedly) running away can turn out very bad. Children watching this film should never be given the opportunity to consider Savannah's "solution" to unhappiness at home as a possibility. But the film is so well done; and the crooks do not get away with anything: there is no uncompromised "happily ever after" ending, but rather a mixed (tho good feeling) ending. The character actors, top to bottom, are first rate.
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Summary: Wonderful Family Film..makes me sad
Review: I saw this as a young teenager and I thought it was a fabulous film. The little girl was so sweet and endearing. It's a shame that the fleeting fame afftcted her so badly. As a teenage has-been she turned to drugs and and died a Heroin addict.
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Summary: I was named after this movie Savannah Smiles
Review: this movie savannah smiles was the inspiration for my name Savanna Lynn marie. My mother and father loved this movie. They thought the little girl was funny and smart. and obviously they loved her name. this movie is a family movie that you can watch over and over. Every one will enjoy
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