2 Weeks in Another Town
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson & Cyd Charisse | |
| Performer: | George Hamilton, Claire Trevor, James Gregory, Daliah Lavi, Rosanna Schiaffino & Constance Ford | |
| Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
| Edited by | Robert J. Kern & Adrienne Fazan | |
| Screenwriting by | Charles Schnee | |
| Composition by | David Raksin | |
| Art Direction by | George W. Davis | |
| Produced by | John Houseman | |
| Director of Photography: | Milton R. Krasner |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Both intimate and outsized, it's a strange product of the era, a Hollywood white elephant of a movie straddling self-awareness and self-parody ...
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Seanax.com
Strange, uneven - but stylistically inventive melodrama about movie making.
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Classic Film and Television
Douglas and Robinson struggle doggedly to put some life into their painfully stereotyped roles.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: B- --
The film borders on soap opera but manages to get beyond it because of Minnelli' skills as a director and the fine acting from the two male leads.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
The overwrought nature of the film actually suits the larger-than-life canvas on which broad strokes are frequently painted.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 3/5 --
shows the industry in that transition, and in that respect, it's fascinating to watch
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7M Pictures
Rating: C+ --
A passable sequel to Minnelli's 1952 Hollywood melodrama The Bad and Beautiful, and while Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson give expert performances, Cyd Charisse is miscast.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Has-been screen idol Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas), just out of a sanitarium, grabs at a small role in a movie shot in Rome by a director (Edward G. Robinson) whose career is also on the skids. When the director falls ill, Jack takes over, realizing this is his last shot at personal and professional redemption.
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- Sales Rank: 31,050
- UPC: 883316313190
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