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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780783116969 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0783116969 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 05, 2001 Running Time: 95 minutes Sales Rank: 3496 Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1981 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: A wide variety of characters participate in an illegal cross-country road race. It's a hilarious comedic chase as the eccentric participants are willing to do anything to win. Amazon.com: Like The Gumball Rally (1976) before it, former stuntman Hal Needham's The Cannonball Run was inspired by the same real-life cross-country road race. If The Gumball Rally was the critical favorite, The Cannonball Run was the box-office favorite (spawning the almost-as-successful sequel, Cannonball Run II, a few years later). Aside from top-billed stars Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise (stars of Needham's Smokey and the Bandit series) plus Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. (as horny priests), the movie features many of the same actors (Bert Convy, Jamie Farr) that could be found on a typical '80s episode of The Love Boat (along with the same caliber of writing). But as the tagline notes, 'You'll never guess who wins'--and it's true. As in most road-race movies, it's the journey that counts, not the destination. This particular journey includes cool cars (like Adrienne Barbeau's black Lamborghini), crazed bikers (led by Peter 'Easy Rider' Fonda), hot martial arts action (from Jackie Chan as a Japanese racecar driver), a conspicuously braless Farrah Fawcett (recipient of a Golden Raspberry nomination for her performance), and possibly the most egregious use of product placement featured in a movie up until that time (one vehicle has 'GMC Trucks' noted prominently along the top of the windshield, another has 'Hawaiian Tropic' painted on the hood). As with many of the films Jackie Chan has made for Golden Harvest, the Hong Kong-based production company behind The Cannonball Run, wacky outtakes are included during the closing credits. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - They Actually HAD a Script...?Cool concept, great cast, awesome movie poster...incredibly lame movie. A lot of things could've been forgiven about THE CANNONBALL RUN if the movie had only been funny. But it's not. It's just an astounding waste of talent that ends with the amusing outtakes proving that the people who made the movie had a better time than the people who paid to see the movie. A good friend of mine despised this movie because he said, "It's like watching a party I didn't get invited to." ... Read More Rating:  - Cannonball Run I received this product quickly and it was just as promised. I like the movie, I have seen it before. Rating:  - Cannon Ball Run - ReviewBurt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Peter Fonda, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jackie Chan are all entrants in an illegal cross-country car race, and all are willing to do anything to win. Chockablock with cool cars, fast driving, wacky hi-jinx and sexual innuendos, this crowd pleaser from former stuntman Hal Needham is based on an actual car race (which the director and writer both entered driving the ambulance seen in the film). Rating:  - The Cannonball RunI hadn't seen this movie in years. I had forgotten just how dumb it really is. I still had a few laughs, though. Rating: - great movieas promised amazon delivered exactly what i was looking for, and i am very pleased with the purchase. long time shopper and will continue my business with u |
