Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul
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Actor: Hamilton Camp, Pamela Carter, Richard Blackburn (II), Robert Beltran, Vernon Demetrius
Brand: Sony
Primary Contributor: Woronov, Mary
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Eating Raoul

Movie Review: Bad transfer of a great film
Summary: 3 Stars

I agree with the comments about the video quality of this film. Feels more like a bootleg than a commercial release. But the film itself is so funny that, for now, I'll watch it as is. Better than not seeing it at all. I give the film 5+ stars - the DVD 1 star - that's the reason for the 3. This is a cult film after all. I think some of the showings I viewed in "art house" theaters didn't look much better - I didn't mind so much at the time and I don't really mind that much now. Great film!

Summary of Eating Raoul

The Blands are a couple living in swinging Los Angeles with their ultra-conservative ways. They find it hard to live life in the midst of all of the completely obnoxious swinging bachelors. Their dreams of running a small restaurant seem to be in jeopardy until they devise a plan to off the swingers in their apartment building with the use of a frying pan to the head, dispose of the bodies and keep the wallets. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action. Huge cult favorite comes to DVD for the first time!
You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighboring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer

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