Tightrope
by Richard Tuggle
List Price:
Our Price: $2.45
You Save: $17.53 (88%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.80 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Genevi?ve Bujold, Jenny BeckDirector: Richard Tuggle
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Writer: Richard Tuggle
Editor: Joel Cox
Producer: Fritz Manes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Taiwanese Chinese (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Clint Eastwood is Wes Block, a lawman walking a Tightrope separating him from the man he strives to be and the man he fears he is. When investigating brutal sex murders, he uncovers a link between himself and the suspect. To the killer, the only good hooker is a dead one - especially if she's been with Block. Soon no woman who knows Block is safe, including those dearest to him (Genevieve Bujold a
Movie Reviews of Tightrope
Movie Review: Even better than new
Summary: 5 Stars
There is nothing original in this 1984 film in New Orleans. We have seen it all. The ex-cop turned serial killer after a long sojourn in prison for rape. The woman activist who is teaching self defense to other women. The divorced father who is taking care of two girls. The victims chosen among the female haphazard or not of the main cop who arrested him a long time ago, in order to get even with him, to get his revenge. The Mardi Gras turned into crime peddling. The three cops keeping one woman under surveillance and protection killed one after the other and the woman assaulted. Etc. So what makes this film special? The cool character of the inspector, slow and fast at the same time, Pondering and following his instinct at some other time. Professional and yet yielding to prostitutes a little too easily and too often, and forgetting his ties on the place of intercourse. Having a problem explaining his younger daughter what a hard-on is. And the word is used twice in the film. There is also the perfect well built suspense founded and built on the shoes and the color of the shoelaces of the criminal. The absolute ruthlessness of this killer who enjoys raping his victims before they die by strangulation and then even eating a cookie and having a cup of coffee. That nonchalance is rarely expected nor found in a serial killer, though he may become so used to his deeds that follow a strict scenario that he may become easy-going about it. That's why the film is perfectly entertaining and Bourbon street on Mardi Gras is so colorful and fascinating. We would like every day to be a Mardi Gras, even if that is the paradise of murderers who can disguise the way they want and be absolutely unseen, invisible. And it all holds with a red silk ribbon. Marvelous detail that makes the film nearly sentimental, like the red badge of courage turned perverse and sociopathic.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Summary of Tightrope
A police inspector, investigating a string of sex crimes, succumbsto the wiles of some of the prostitues he questions. He finds that he has much in common with the murderer he's pursuing.The screenwriter of Escape from Alcatraz, Richard Tuggle, sold a second script to Clint Eastwood on the condition that he be allowed to direct it. The result is a near classic, a grim psycho-thriller set in New Orleans, which remains one of the star's boldest attempts to undercut his unshakable rock-bound image. It was interpreted by some critics as an exercise in self-exploration, although that might be stretching it. Still, as a cop whose own kinky yearnings are pulled to the surface as he investigates a series of stalker murders of women, Eastwood often seems tormented by self-doubt, and that was a new flavor for him. The French-Canadian actress Genevi?ve Bujold plays the seductive Cajun shrink who helps Clint get in touch with his dark side. The great thing is that the movie works as pure suspense, despite its larger ambitions. Tuggle made sure that the crime-solving elements and the psychological explorations fit smoothly together: the twist is that in order to be able to anticipate the sicko's actions, the cop has to learn to share his feelings, and finds the transition a little too easy to negotiate. --David Chute
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Films of CLINT EASTWOOD
Rawhide - Seasons 1-3RAWHIDE; Release date: 2008-12-09; DVD
Best price: $138.49
Price in other shops:
BirdWarner Brothers; Release date: 2001-01-30; DVD
Best price: $3.60
Price in other shops:
The BeguiledUniversal Studios; Release date: 1998-07-22; DVD
Best price: $26.98
White Hunter, Black HeartWarner Brothers; Release date: 2003-09-02; DVD
Best price: $9.94
Price in other shops:
ChangelingJOLIE,ANGELINA; Release date: 2009-02-17; DVD
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops:
Honkytonk Man / Pink Cadillac / City HeatWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $8.90
Price in other shops:
Thunderbolt and LightfootTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2000-06-13; DVD
Best price: $72.02
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: World War II - Battlefront Europe (Kelly's Heroes / Where Eagles Dare / The Dirty Dozen / Battleground)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2009-05-05; DVD
Best price: $16.27
Price in other shops:
Every Which Way But Loose / Any Which Way You Can / Honkytonk Man (Triple Feature)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-05-20; DVD
Best price: $10.92
Price in other shops:
Paint Your WagonEASTWOOD,CLINT; Release date: 2001-07-24; DVD
Best price: $5.35
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Escape From AlcatrazEASTWOOD,CLINT; Release date: 1999-03-09; DVD
Best price: $4.47
Price in other shops:
Bronco BillyEASTWOOD,CLINT; Release date: 2000-08-01; DVD
Best price: $2.79
Price in other shops:
The GauntletWarner Brothers; Release date: 1999-03-30; DVD
Best price: $3.80
Price in other shops:
Absolute PowerCASTLE ROCK HM VIDEO; Release date: 1997-07-08; DVD
Best price: $3.25
Price in other shops:
The Dead Pool (Deluxe Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-06-03; DVD
Best price: $7.59
Price in other shops:
Blood Work (Widescreen Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-06-01; DVD
Best price: $3.75
Price in other shops:
Coogan's BluffUniversal Studios; Release date: 2004-06-01; DVD
Best price: $4.17
Price in other shops:
White Hunter, Black HeartWarner Brothers; Release date: 2003-09-02; DVD
Best price: $9.83
Price in other shops:
Firefox / The Gauntlet / The Rookie (Triple Feature)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-05-20; DVD
Best price: $11.22
Price in other shops:
True CrimeEASTWOOD,CLINT; Release date: 1999-08-10; DVD
Best price: $3.88
Price in other shops: