Sunset (1988)
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Synopsis: Gunslinging lawman Wyatt Earp meets cowboy star Tom Mix on a film set in Hollywood, circa 1929. This film-within-a-film farce has the Mix playing the famous marshal in one of the first Western talkies with Earp on hand for technical advice. Meanwhile both men team up to solve a mystery... Gunslinging lawman Wyatt Earp meets cowboy star Tom Mix on a film set in Hollywood, circa 1929. This film-within-a-film farce has the Mix playing the famous marshal in one of the first Western talkies with Earp on hand for technical advice. Meanwhile both men team up to solve a mystery involving the murder of a notorious madam. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 25, 1998
DVD Features:
- Region 1 Encoding
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
- Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selections
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Reviews
One of the biggest flops of 1988, Blake Edwards' Sunset is highly uneven, but gorgeous period production values and the easy-going charm of Garner and Willis save it.
Garner's a great Earp (see "Hour of the Gun") but this witless movie trashes not one but two great Western legends.
It's a plot that unravels on its own, without characters, without anything, not even a point of view. It's a zombie.
Ultimately, Sunset plays like deluxe dinner theater fare. It's a diversion to take along with your after-meal coffee and dessert.
A tale that is not quite a comedy, or a murder mystery, or a crime thriller, or an expose of Hollywood slime, but manages to make half-hearted stabs in all these directions.
Half of the movie wants to be cheerful, and the other half seems morbid and disenchanted.
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