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For the Boys by Mark Rydell
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Bette Midler, Christopher Rydell, George Segal, James Caan, Patrick O'Neal Director: Mark Rydell DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1 Running Time: 146 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of For the BoysMovie Review: I'll Remember ... YOU! Summary: 5 StarsThat final line of the movie is only part of what makes it so wonderful.
Bette Midler plays Dixie opposite James Caan's Eddie. When they meet, neither is impressed with the other ... however, both deliver magic when onstage in front of thousands of GIs. With great comic timing and spectacular chemistry, they stumble into a partnership that will take them through three different wars, joys and tragedies. They're more than friends, more than performing partners ... and their unique relationship lasts decades. They see ups and downs, have fights and disagreements, but in the end come together FOR THE BOYS.
Bette Midler and James Caan are fantastic in this movie. The music is wonderful as well. One of Bette's best!
Summary of For the BoysBette Midler gives the brassiest, sassiest performance of her career as Dixie Leonard, a USO singer whose electrifying stage presence, and flair for outrageous comedy, captivates troops and civilians alike. Teamed up with America's beloved song and dance man, Eddie Sparks (James Caan), the whole world becomes Dixie's stage through three very different wars, and 50 years of music and memories, laughter and tears. All of it... FOR THE BOYS. For the Boys is a lumpy attempt to create an old-fashioned backstage drama, replete with classic showbiz feuds, breakups and make-ups, and the often inexplicable adoration of fictional fans toward characters with dubious star appeal. Released under a cloud of accusations that the story was ripped off from the life of USO stalwart Martha Raye (who had been attempting to get an autobiographical film project set up), For the Boys didn't improve its public relations by being, well, not very good. Bette Midler stars as Dixie Leonard, a singer plucked from obscurity by song-and-dance man Eddie Sparks (James Caan) while on a USO tour during World War II. Their bawdy chemistry before audiences makes them a durable act through many years and wars to come. The problem is that they don't like each other very much, and here's where director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) drops the ball: the film never develops sufficient story grounds or the emotional complexity necessary for a high degree of conflict in what is essentially a two-character drama. It doesn't help that the script requires Dixie and Eddie to be on nonspeaking terms for most of the 50 years they know one another, or that the story culminates in a horribly contrived reunion on television, with both actors buried under enough flesh-aging prosthetics and make-up to make them look like Dick Tracy villains. --Tom Keogh
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