Foul Play
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Movie Review: Foul Play DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Rec'd product sooner than expected and was exactly as described. Would definetly by from this seller again.Movie Review: Just fun
Summary: 5 Stars
A movie to watch for fun. Nothing earth shattering, but very enjoyable. One of my all time favorite moviesMovie Review: My favorite movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This has always been my favorite movie. I love being able to order the old movies on DVD.Movie Review: very good
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 4 Stars
Much is written in reviewing this movie of Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase and their chemistry that does so much to make the movie come alive.
However there are three additional characters who's parts I feel are overlooked.
The first is Billy Barty as the biblesalesman. I don't know how to best describe Mr. Barty in this era of political correctness, but he is a dwarf who over a long, long career injected many different types of emotion into the different scenes he played in so many movies. In Foul Play with the set up developed before he's ever seen on screen, his arrival is positively brilliant and his out of the window down the hills of San Francisco in a rubbish barrel are some of the funniest moments on screen. Some will say the role he plays can be viewed as insulting to those suffering from dwarfism, however I'm sure Mr. Barty would not have taken the role were he not able to wring out of control laughter from several different scenes. He passed away in 2000, sadly, but in this movie his role was very large in size. I'm sure he was proud of his work, as well he should have been.
The second character of note is the "cowboy" who's clearly just arrived in the big city and can be viewed as a bit of a hayseed. When Chevy Chase's character commandeers the cowboy's camper/truck, the wide-eyed "oh-my-gosh-they-don't-do-this-sort-of-stuff-where-I-come-from" characterization lets us see what city life can drive us to.....
And finally, in what I consider one of the funniest scenes ever shot in any movie, are the elderly Chinese tourist couple, who have just arrived in San Francisco, armed with their suitcases and two small American flags. Again as Chevy Chase's character seized the limo they are in and charges through San Francisco to get to the Opera House to prevent "the Hit" this couple lets us sit back in uncontrolled hysterical laughter as you can only imagine what the two visitors must be thinking.
Some may recall that in the ultimate of ironies, Foul Play was scheduled to air on TV the very night of the assassination attempt on the late Pope John Paul II. Mercifully it was pulled before air time, yet whatever did in fact play out in "reality", and as terrible as the attempt on the Pope's life was, this movie has to go down as one of the best light comedy/thrillers in recent memory. It is successful in the end as it manages to poke fun fairly harmlessly, I believe, at some of the institutions we hold so dear.