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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 1, 2003
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Danny DeVito | |
Performer: | Gregory Hines, James Remar, Cliff Robertson, Ed Begley, Jr., Stacey Dash & Mark Wahlberg | |
Directed by | Penny Marshall | |
Edited by | George Bowers & Battle Davis | |
Executive Production by | Buzz Feitshans |
Entertainment Reviews:
As is, highlights are too often followed by lulls of inactivity or feel-good moments that cause the narrative to drag.
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Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
This is a feel good movie which is too mechanically put together to make you feel anything.
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Empire Magazine
As strange as it sounds, DeVito's performance is about the only aspect of the film that isn't wholly fraudulent, if only because his typical feisty abrasiveness protects him from sinking to the level of Marshall's mawkishness.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
Having taken basic training at Ft Jackson, SC this film had a lot of memories for me. Plus Penny Marshall autographed my "League of Their Own" poster for me after the premiere.
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
There's a fine line between delighting an audience and pandering to it. "Renaissance Man" leapfrogs across the line.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Renaissance Man is a labored, unconvincing comedy that seems cobbled together out of the half-understood remnants of its betters.
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Chicago Sun-Times
It enjoys its share of wisecracks, and beyond that means to be a cry for literacy and learning. But as a one-book movie, it's part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
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New York Times
Product Description:
An unemployed advertising executive (Danny DeVito) takes a job teaching an underachieving class of Army recruits in this fish-out-of-water story. His radical tactics, though frowned on by the Army, help the students learn, and in turn the kids teach him a thing or two.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:
Renaissance Man
Expect big, big laughs when funnyman Danny DeVito (TWINS, RUTHLESS PEOPLE) joins forces with talened director Penny Marshall (A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, BIG) to deliver a lively five-star comedy you're going to love! DeVito plays a down-on-his-luck businessman who desperately takes the only job offered -- a teaching position in the U.S. Army. His mission: keep a ragtag bunch of underachieving misfits from flunking out of basic training! Be on alert for laughter as this unlikely new teacher and his underdog class unexpectedly inspire one another to be all that they can be!
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 122,201
- UPC: 786936209488
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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