Goodbye Lover Roland Joffé Digital Life VHS

Goodbye Lover
starring: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray McKinnon
directed by: Roland Joffé

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790739274
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0790739275
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 21, 2000
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 27124
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1999

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Overlooked and underrated, Goodbye Lover is a tawdry, tasty film noir with a soft spot for its scheming antiheroine. With her platinum Lulu bob, a killer wardrobe, and a Sound of Music fetish that inspires her to 'climb every mountain' of bad-girl ambition, Patricia Arquette is perfectly cast as Sandra, the sweet but lethal wife of Jake (Dermot Mulroney), who works in a top-drawer ad agency with his brother Ben (Don Johnson). Weary stud Ben falls prey to simultaneous affairs with Sandra and his devoted secretary (Mary-Louise Parker), and the cynical Detective Pompano (Ellen DeGeneres) unravels the murder-for-insurance plot while her clueless Mormon partner (Ray McKinnon) tries to keep pace. Combining mordant humor and rampant depravity, this deliciously dark comedy starts fast and never lets up, liberating director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) from the sobriety of his previous work. The entire cast is great, but it's DeGeneres who makes this a recommended sleeper. --Jeff Shannon

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Just okay
I wasn't crazy about this movie. I purchased it because I'm a huge Dermot Mulroney fan. He was okay in this one but not my favorite.

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- The Hills Are Alive ....But Not For Long
Pair a slinky, murderous femme fatale who warbles tunes from "The Sound of Music and a foul-mouthed female cop with an attitude problem and you have the saving graces of the overlooked, underrated 1998 noir thriller "Goodbye Lover". Directed by Roland Joffe, "Goodbye Lover" offers a rather amusing look at a love triangle between a bad, bad girl and two brothers. Married to Jake, the wildly erratic and drunken, younger brother, sexpot Sandra is secretly hot and heavy with the older, successful Ben, and she's got plans that don't bode well for at least one of the boys. Meanwhile, a mysterious serial killer prowls around the fringes of the film, careful not to intrude on the none-too-savory business of our scheming castmembers. When a death eventually does occur, cop Rita Pompano, armed with a loud bark and worse bite, shows up with her Bible-thumping partner. Will she be able to solve the mystery before Sandra ... Read More

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- Quirky, Dark & Humorous
Patricia Arquette and a budget price were the draw for me to this DVD. What a delight! Roland Jaffe, who has twice been nominated for Best Director Oscars in 1984 for "The Killing Fields" and in 1986 for "The Mission," directs this offbeat humorous thriller. He also directed a film that intrigued me titled Vatel. Arquette has since been nominated for three Golden Globes and two Emmys including an Emmy win for Medium - The Complete First Season. She is fascinating to watch as Sandra. She goes from seductress to victim to crime boss. Her love for the soundtrack to "The Sound of Music" is a wonderfully hysterical gag. The film twists & turns so fast that this moment's good guy is the next scene's heavy. Dermot Mulroney who has been in "Zodiac," Georgia Rule (Widescreen Edition), and Must Love Dogs (Widescreen Edition) plays Sandra's husband Jake who displays emotional instability and often appears inebriated. ... Read More

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- Dale Carnegie It Ain't
I was pleasantly surprised.

Reviews of this 1999 film were hardly complementary. In fact, I cannot even recall its initial release or if it ever reached Worcester, MA (hardly the first time an unusual film failed to make it to the Paris of New England). Nevertheless, have some fun with this underrated work. Roland Joffe, of The Killing Fields fame, takes Double Indemnity, adds 10 pints of sex with more twist and turns than a Monaco Grand Prix and you have Goodbye Lover.

It's also quite funny.

For the Mary-Louise Parker fans out there, not only is she good (again) yet one can see why she accepted this job. It is yet another opportunity for her to explore the complexity of personality and how rarely people are what they appear to be. She fooled me, anyway. Patricia Arquette and Dermot Mulroney also have some fun with this. Actually, Ellen DeGeneres character as a cynical, wisecracking ... Read More

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