The Long Goodbye
by Greg Carson, Robert Altman
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Actor: Elliott Gould, Mark Rydell, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Vilmos ZsigmondDirector: Greg Carson, Robert Altman
Producer: Greg Carson
Producer: Elliott Kastner
Producer: Jerry Bick
Producer: Robert Eggenweiler
Writer: Leigh Brackett
Writer: Raymond Chandler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Long Goodbye
Movie Review: Brilliant, but not for the Chandler purists! (See the 1-star reviews for much teeth-gnashing from the anti-Altman camp)
Summary: 5 Stars
The truth is that Raymond Chandler purists who have a rigid view of his work are never going to like this brilliant little film. One has to be able to understand the artistic merit inherent in variation, parody, and reimagining. The fact that several reviewers gave this film ONE star out of five tells me one of these things are true: 1. These folks have an axe to grind and they let that get in the way of seeing this film for what it is, or 2. They sincerely have no taste. Or very, very limited taste. Oh, a third alternative just occurred to me: 3. Hollywood has ruined these people's brains, such that they can no longer appreciate a wider spectrum of pace in a film; everything needs to happen in a rapid-fire, linear fashion replete with gunfire and explosions every few minutes or they get bored because they are accustomed to having filmmakers cater to their short attention span and high tolerance for violence.
Sorry, soul cats. Try again. Or, rather, don't post vindictive and shallow reviews. Your reviews reveal more about you than they do about the movies you write about. Don't you realize this?
Summary of The Long Goodbye
Elliott Gould gives one of his best performances (Esquire) as a quirky, mischievous PhilipMarlowe in Robert Altman's fascinating and original (Newsweek) send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story. Co-starring Nina Van Pallandt and Sterling Hayden and written by Leigh Brackett (The Big Sleep) The Long Goodbye is a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter) with an ending that's as controversial as it is provocative (Los Angeles Times)! Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe (Gould) faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster and a suitcase full of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, hesoon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceitonly to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous friendship is murder.Raymond Chandler's cynically idealistic hero, Philip Marlowe, has been played by everyone from Humphrey Bogart to James Garner--but no one gives him the kind of weirdly affect-less spin that Elliott Gould does in this terrific Robert Altman reimagining of Chandler's penultimate novel. Altman recasts Marlowe as an early '70s L.A. habitu?, who gets involved in a couple of cases at once. The most interesting involves a suicidal writer (Sterling Hayden in a larger-than-life performance) whom Marlowe is supposed to keep away from malevolent New-Ageish guru Henry Gibson. A variety of wonderfully odd characters pop up, played by everyone from model Nina Van Pallandt to director Mark Rydell to ex-baseballer Jim Bouton. And yes, that is Arnold Schwarzenegger (in only his second movie) popping up as (what else?) a muscleman. Listen for the title song: It shows up in the strangest places. --Marshall Fine
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