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 enlarge | Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tim Barlow, Jeff Goldblum, Neil Hamilton (ii), John Inman
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 53409
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D21632D
UPC: 786936144550
EAN: 0786936144550
ASIN: B00005V1XY
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 1990
Release Date: March 19, 2002
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 Master OF The Rare LASERDISCs Movies. July 15, 2005
Baldwin (KUWAIT,Sabahiya)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have The Tall Guy 1990 ON LASERDISC And DVD as well,A Must See,Two way Thumbs Up :p
! Hilarious Sex ! June 24, 2005
Victoria Lynn (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie has the cutest, most hysterically funny love scene in it in all the movies!!!
Who wants to be wise? A buyer of this DVD, to name but one June 1, 2005
J. Figler (portland, or United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
(Title of review being, naturally, one of those "for fans only" quotations from film...)
Ah, if only there were more such generous helpings of the unique Jeff Goldblum drollery available. Here is where you learn, as R. Ebert observed, just how superbly Goldblum can carry an entire comedic film on his shoulders (not to slight the excellent support lent by all hands; Emma Thompson, of course, but let's not forget, to name but one, Anna Massey's sly turn as Goldblum's agent).
A good deal of the credit for the overall zip of the proceedings belongs to the director, Mel Smith. Like Wes Anderson, director of "Rushmore", Smith realizes that brevity is the soul of wit; the story makes its moves with imaginative economy. As a result,"The Tall Guy" feels much fuller than its 80 minute running time would seem to permit. The film retains its freshness viewing after viewing (after viewing!). Luckily, it appears that the success of the first "Bridget Jones" film, which Curtis co-wrote, hastened the return of "Tall Guy" to VHS as well as its debut on DVD.
A British Comedy For People That Don't Like 'Em! January 26, 2005
Dean Anderson (New York, New York)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Both the good and the bad thing about "The Tall Guy" is that it is a British comedy with an American sense about it. That may mean that it's not terribly appealing to either people who like the British form of humour or those that like the American style, but I think it works very well!
It's an absurd tale of an American actor (Jeff Goldblum) relegated to perform as a second banana for a West End favorite (Rowan Atkinson) in a London theatrical production. His allergies force him to go to the infirmary, but his view of a nurse (Emma Thompson) gets him over his dislike of injections and begins getting weekly shots from her, just to spend a moment of pleasurable pain in her presence. After finally getting a date, and upstaging his fellow thespian, and after getting sacked for it, he then lands the lead role in a new musical, all about the life of John "The Elephant Man" Merrick! But, of course, complications arise.
The plot is helped greatly by the performances of unbelievable moments from the musical, and by a very raucous love scene with Goldblum and Thompson, one of the most violently joyous ones I've ever seen in a film! The three leads are all brilliant in their performances, especially Atkinson, who is much more Blackadder here, and not at all Mr. Bean.
Ok. It might not become your favorite comedy ever, But it's very cute for what it is, and is definitely charming and wonderfully funny.
It's absolutely worth a look.
A Very Funny, Clever and Romantic Movie December 7, 2004
C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jeff Goldblum plays Dexter King, a tall American in London trying to establish himself as an actor. For the last two years he's been getting by playing stooge in the comedy act of a monumentally self-centered comedian, Ron Anderson, played by Rowan Atkinson. He meets Kate Lemmon, a nurse at a local hospital. In short order, he falls in love, gets fired by Anderson, is hired to play the lead in a London musical, has a fling, loses Kate, wins Kate back.
The movie is funny and a bit whimsical, very clever, and is merciless at poking fun at the theater establishment. Dexter's big break, for instance, is playing John Merrick in Elephant!, a musical based on The Elephant Man. Think of third rate (or even first-rate) Andrew Lloyd-Weber. The book and songs are so awful and ponderous they're fascinating. Dexter's face makeup, in addition to huge lumps and ears, includes what looks like a small elephant's trunk attached to his nose.
Goldblum narrates the movie and comes across as slightly neurotic but endearing, unsure of himself but able to come through when it counts. Emma Thompson's character is all brisk common sense with a big helping of drollness. They go to bed on their first date because, as Kate explains, it eliminates all the awkwardness later on. Their love making is hilarious and could have been directed by Buster Keaton. Rowan Atkinson, as usual, almost steals the movie. He has two or three routines on stage, one with Goldblum as stooge with both playing singing, dancing off-color nuns. "Is something bothering you, Dexter?" Atkinson's character asks solicitously afterwards backstage. "Well, yes there is," Dexter says. "Then sort it out," Atkinson snarls, "before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role." The happy resolution of the movie takes place in the emergency room of Kate's hospital where various badly damaged people are being brought in...maimed accident victims, a heart attack case, a fellow with a vacuum cleaner pipe lodged up his bottom. Somehow it all works out.
This is a sweet, funny, intelligent movie with three first-rate lead actors.
The DVD looks very good.
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