Tiptoes
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Actor: Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, Patricia Arquette, Peter DinklageBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Tiptoes
Movie Review: The Return Of A Legend
Summary: 5 Stars
Gary Oldman reaches deep down into the tormented memories of his short-lived marriage to Uma Thurman to create the part of Rolfe in TIPTOES, director Matthew Bright's searing dissection of celebrity marriage and the perils of not telling your wife everything about yourself. He plays one of two twin brothers, one of whom grows up to be a dwarf, a free lance writer with a column syndicated in the Chicago Tribune. That's the character Gary Oldman plays. I was astonished to see him so short in this movie. Are special effects of this kind so inexpensive now that they could be lavished even in a movie which otherwise looks like it cost maybe $4 million dollars, in other words, hardly anything in today's big budget Hollywood? Sometimes Oldman was photogaphed in a way which suggested that he was sitting on the ground, for example, in a rauncy motel room he's sitting between two beds while Patricia Arquette is rollingaround having sex with another "little" actor, the French Marxist firebrand, "Maurice," played by Peter Dinklage, who runs away with the whole movie with his preposterous "French" accent saying, "Ze marriage is for ze morons!"
I liked Dinklage's performance. I wonder if they could use reverse special effects as cast him as a man of normal height and all the other actors could be magically shrunk to his height like the hobbit boys in LORD OF THE RINGS. Patricia Arquette as "Lucy" looks rough, like she slept the whole night out in the woods the evening before she reported for duty on TIPTOES. In the screen's most romantic scene, Peter Dinklage braids his greasy black hair into flowing cornrows in homage to Arquette's Bo Derek hairdo in a picnic slash wedding sequence.
Matthew Bright made "Freeway," the nutty caper that turned Reese Witherspoon into a indie icon. Here he's hardly as successful, but maybe he meant the picture to be as bizarrely truncated as this one.
We saw Chad Everett the other night as one of Ann-Margret's boyfriends in MADE IN PARIS. How strange to see him playing Kate Beckinsale's controlling father in TIPTOES--and still looking pretty good all things considered. The movie should have been about his character and had all the others sort of crossing his path at different places. He still has the looks and charm and talent that made him an acting legend. Go, Chad, go!
Summary of Tiptoes
No couple could be more in love than steven & carol. But steven has a secret-he has a twin brother who just happens to be a dwarf. In fact except for steven his whole family are dwarfs. So when carol becomes pregnant he is forced to tell her the truth. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/25/2006 Starring: Kate Beckinsale Goary Oldman Run time: 90 minutes Rating: RSimilar DVD Movies
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