Unstrung Heroes (Blu-ray) PG
Sometimes you find your heroes in the most unlikely places
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 2, 2019
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Andie MacDowell, John Turturro & Michael Richards | |
Performer: | Maury Chaykin, Nathan Watt, Anne De Salvo, Celia Weston, Jack McGee, Candice Azzara, Giuseppe Andrews, Wayne Duvall & Becky Ann Baker | |
Directed by | Diane Keaton | |
Edited by | Lisa Zeno Churgin | |
Screenplay by | Richard LaGravenese | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Susan Arnold, Bill Badalato & Donna Roth | |
Director of Photography: | Phedon Papamichael |
Entertainment Reviews:
Phedon Papamichael did the luminous cinematography. Thomas Newman was nominated for an Oscar for his distinctive score.
Wall Street Journal
...Intelligently affecting direction....The film's charms are small but many. -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Shows how misfits can be necessary spiritual teachers for youth coming-of-age.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
A very touching film that features great performances all around. This is the type of movie you'll watch and wonder why you've never heard more about it.
Countingdown.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Unstrung Heroes has been directed by Diane Keaton with an unusual combination of sentiment and quirky eccentricity. There are moments so touching that the heart almost stops.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Quietly moving story of a boy dealing with loss.
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Common Sense Media
...There are moments so touching that the heart almost stops....And yet the movie for most of the way is a comedy, showing how in all good families there is room for everyone...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Steven Lidz lives a happy and secure life in the home of his loving mother and inventor father in 1962 Los Angeles. However, things take a tragic turn when his mom, Selma, becomes terminally ill with cancer. Because Steven's father can't bring himself to deal honestly with Selma's impending death, Steven chooses to live with his two eccentric uncles, Danny and Arthur. While Danny suffers from paranoia and sees anti-Semitic conspiracies everywhere, Arthur is a childlike pack rat who has filled their apartment with stacks of newspapers and hundreds of small items he's found in the streets. Despite their strange lifestyles, the uncles manage to usher Steven through this difficult period of his life, and find a creative way of dealing with his grief. Adapted from the touching childhood memoirs of Franz Lidz. Academy Award Nomination: Best Original Musical or Comedy Score.