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Format: DVD
Aug 1997
Rated PG
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Closed Captioned
127 min.
Color
Extra Info: Standard and letterbox
UPC: 085391337423 |
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Movie Description
An updating of the classic Western TV series MAVERICK, this comic oater finds our fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many adventures while trying to come up with enough money to play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William Goldman with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design.
Synopsis
Bret Maverick, that charming, amoral gambler of TV fame, is back, and still wreaking comic havoc wherever he goes.
Maverick's out to compete in the Three Rivers Poker Championship, but he's got one small problem: he still needs another three grand for the entrance fee. Soon he's donning disguises, fighting Indians and holding up hooligans... doing anything he must to get that cash.
Film Notes
Copyright 1994 Icon Productions.
Filmed in Technicolor; in Anamorphic.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
DVD Features:
Region 1 Encoding
Keep Case
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
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Production Notes
Industry Reviews
"...Gibson, Foster and Garner have a ball, and they make the feeling contagious..."
Rolling Stone - p.115 - Peter Travers
"...Entertaining, amiable....Consistently good to look at..."
Sight and Sound - p.46-7 - Philip Kemp
"...Fast, funny, full of straight-ahead action and tongue-in-cheek jokes....A smart, new-fangled MAVERICK..."
New York Times - p.C1 - Caryn James
"The cast is adorable, the characters are foolproof..."
Entertainment Weekly - p.36 - Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...The first lighthearted, laugh-oriented family Western in a long time....It's fun....One of the pleasures of the film is watching the actors used by director Richard Donner to populate his backgrounds..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (05/20/1994)
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