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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359329920
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: HBOD93299D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Duane hopwood is a down-on-hi-luck divorced father who works the night shift as a pit boss in atlantic city. Heartsick about the demise of marriage & the subsequent disintegration of their family duanes life is in a tale spin. This is a moving humorous & often outrageous look at the limits of love. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Starring: David Schwimmer Juday Friedlander Run time: 83 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com:
Duane Hopwood finds David Schwimmer delivering one of the best performances of his career as an alcoholic, divorced dad whose luck is running out and whose compromised judgment is costing him access to his kids. Duane, a pit boss at an Atlantic City casino, jeopardizes visitation rights with his two daughters when he's caught driving drunk with one of the girls asleep in his car. That mistake sets into motion a number of others, pushing Duane into a corner of despair precisely when he needs to maintain stability to see his children. Writer-director Matt Mulhern, best known as a character actor, resists the temptation to turn his story into a cautionary nightmare about the evils of addiction. Subtle, low-key and frequently wry, Duane Hopwood is really a smart film about how hard yet inevitable it is for anyone to outgrow a broken life and allow the elements of a new one to form. Janeane Garofalo, somewhat unrecognizable under platinum-blonde hair, is very good as Duane's sympathetic but determined ex-wife, and Judah Friedlander slowly but surely grows on one as Anthony, a yammering, would-be comic whose loyalty to Duane really matters in the clutch. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - Great Movie - And Great Soundtrax
Just saw this movie on cable. I passed over it at my local DVD store and that was a mistake. Great performances! But this review is to praise the music in the film. Where's the soundtrax? Great music. I just downloaded 3 of the songs from the film online. I had to go to another site to see the name of the songs.

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Rating: - movie delivers truth
Duane Hopwood is just your average Joe, hard worker, married, 2 kids everything you would want in life. Everything begins to unravel on Duane he starts drinking too much and letting his work affect his home life. Soon enough he's divorced and is losing his kids, with a touching and believable performance by David Schwimmer the movie delivers something a lot of movies don't and that's truth. Characters are a raw and compelling. Schwimmer gives a great performance. During the entire movie you want ... Read More

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Rating: - Just Doesn't Work
Expecting to completely enjoy this movie based on some nice things I had heard, I was stunned by my negative reaction. Wow! This movie wants you to care about alcoholic loser Duane and the serious problems that he faces one minute. The next, it wants you to laugh at weird and completely unrealistic characters and situations. Sometimes it tries for subtle realism, sometimes for the absurd. It just doesn't work. If you think child endangerment is funny, this might be the movie for you. But there ... Read More

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Rating: - What indie American film should be about
I caught this on The Movie Channel and was struck by the lack of fanfare preceding its appearance on cable. I did three minutes of research and found Roger Ebert named it to his "Best of 2005" list. Schwimmer gives a subtle performance that packs an emotional punch, and Garafalo never strikes a false note as the spouse who has to move on but still has compassion for the man who used to be her husband. What indie American film should be about - and a big boo to those responsible for not seeing this little ... Read More

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Rating: - Amazing in every way!
Duane Hopwood is one of my favourite films of all time. Being a big fan of David Schwimmer I was really looking forward to the release of the DVD and after watching it for the first time I was absolutely blown away. David Schwimmer has always amazed me with his incredible acting skills, but this film really shows how much of an amazing actor he is. It's about a decent respectable man trying to earn a living, while struggling to fight for custody of his two young daughters. It's the best film on alcholism ... Read More

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