Story of Jim Jones - Guyana Tragedy
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Actor: Brad Dourif, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty, Powers Boothe, Rosalind CashBrand: Bayside ENT Dist
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 240 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Alpha Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Story of Jim Jones - Guyana Tragedy
Movie Review: 30-years later and I still won't drink purple Kool-Aid!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a made for TV movie true story of a preacher that had a cult following that later committed mass suicide by drinking what everyone thinks was purple cyanide-laced Kool-Aid but it was actually a brand called Flavor-Aid.
To this day you might here someone say something like "He's drinking the purple Kool-Aid" when talking about a blind following of another person's sayings or teachings.
This might be the reason the Kool-Aid man is red and not purple. You have to feel sorry for Kool-Aid. It wasn't even their product in the movie or real life!
Made for TV in the late 70s early 80s three-channel days was in many ways much less restrictive that it is today. The N-word and F-word (the three-letter one) are used in serious context several times.
This was a powerful TV broadcast in its time. Right up there with "Roots". Powers Boothe looked exactly like the real Jim Jones when he put those sun glasses on.
Had Powers Boothe chosen to use his powers for evil instead of good he could have had the same cult church following. To say Powers Boothe was convincing in the role of Jim Jones is an understatement. He was Jim Jones. Boothe won an Emmy Award for this. He deserved to win every TV and movie award out there.
The 2008 DVD release from Alpha Home Entertainment is the most horrible quality DVD I have ever bought. It's also edited and missing SIX-MINUTES of content. It's dollar store DVD quality.
I also own the 1986 unedited release from VCII Home Video and its a much cleaner and brighter copy of the film on two VHS tapes that runs the full 3-hours and 10-minutes. Watch that version if you can find it.
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