Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9781419805936 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1419805932 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 12, 2005 Running Time: 112 minutes Sales Rank: 26458 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Product Description: A pair of drifters hook up and learn much about each other and themselves when they scheme to save their pennies to buy a car wash.Running Time: 113 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569688865
Amazon.com: One of the great lost buddy films of the 1970s, this Jerry Schatzberg movie somehow never found its audience, despite the fact that both lead actors were riding high: Hackman from The French Connection, Pacino from The Godfather. They play a pair of drifters, seeing America by thumb, who hook up and discover unexpected soul mates in each other. Hackman is the loner who would rather pile on another layer of clothes than chance letting someone get close to him; Pacino is the likably funny loser who gets under Hackman's skin and teaches him to open up. Together, they hatch a plan to save up and buy their own car wash. But try as they do to keep each other out of trouble, their friendship provides only limited protection, though each take something positive away. Endearing performances that never sink to sentimentality; Pacino, in particular, proves that he could just as easily have been a screen comic as one of the great dramatic actors. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Hackman, Pacino, and America
This is one of those little-seen gems of '70s American cinema that always seem to pop up (although maybe it's no longer accurate to say this film is little-seen, since it's been on DVD for three years). With films like this, it's always tempting to cry "lost masterpiece!" but in this case, while the movie is very interesting and worthwhile, to call it a masterpiece would be hyperbole. The chief pleasures derived from two hours spent with SCARECROW are (1) the fascinating interplay between actors Gene Hackman (doing a variation on the tightly-wound jerk we've seen him play many times) and Al Pacino (revelatory as a friendly drifter whose warmth and good humor is a far cry from the typical Pacino role) and (2) the gorgeous photography from master cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, a name that should be familiar to all fans of '70s cinema. As Hackman and Pacino amble across American backroads, hopping trains and hiking ... Read More
Rating: - For Every Mood, There Is A Movie
One of the best I've seen in a long time. While filming is beautiful from the start, it took a little while for me to be sure I was really on board with the characters. Hackman is so prickly in the beginning, and Pacino's scarecrow solilique ("The scarecrow makes 'em laugh..") had me wondering. By the time they get thrown in the house of detentions, you're thinking what a nice guy Pacino is and how unreasonable is Hackman.. who ends up on a pigfarm. What a reverse the film suddenly takes after that! Suddenly, Hackman's stand-offish ways seem to make a little more sense!
But sure, Pacino was the charmer. Hackman was also interesting in his own loyalty and focused determination. One or two scenes may have been a bit over the top (Hackman strip-teasing in that greasy diner to show Pacino he's not gonna get in another fight?). Still, this movie was a real work of genius. It seems to teach something: ... Read More
Rating: - This movie was very well done a little to long perhaps, but,
very touching and down to earth. With the talent and charm of Al Pacino and the crusty gruffness of Gene Hackman their opposite personalities really mesh. Hackman the cold loner, Al the goofy, but loveable loser. This movie was not liked by critics, and I don't really understand why. Its really an overlooked, well done buddy flick about two very lonely people who find a connection. Enjoy.
Rating: - Wacky, crazy film!
I remember seeing this in the movies as a little girl and saying, "What the heck did I just see?" It leaves you dumbstruck a little and you can just see that Al Pacino was a force to be reckoned with. Gene Hackman's best movie, if you ask me and just something to behold.
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