- Actors: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marilu Henner
- Directors: Mick Jackson
- Writers: Steve Martin
- Producers: Steve Martin, Daniel Melnick, Mario Kassar, Michael I. Rachmil
- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Momentum
- DVD Release Date: 20 May 2002
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005IBAX
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,619 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
German\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English German\Mono Spanish
Dolby Digital Surround
Mono
Teaser Trailer
Trailer
Making Of LA Story
Behind The Scenes Footage
Interviews
Photo Gallery
Dutch\English\German\Portuguese\Spanish\Turkish
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
German\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English German\Mono Spanish
Dolby Digital Surround
Mono
Teaser Trailer
Trailer
Making Of LA Story
Behind The Scenes Footage
Interviews
Photo Gallery
Dutch\English\German\Portuguese\Spanish\Turkish
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This film is a classic because it works on many levels. Stupid jokes sit comfortably alongside comedic pearls of wisdom. Slapstick set pieces give way to real moments of moving self unawareness portrayed by the likable main characters. Surreal sight gags give us small insights into life in L.A, fondly puncturing the very ridiculousness of it at the same time as thinly veiling Martins' absolute love for the city in which he grew up. Martin delivers classic lines with his usual straight-laced collar-loosening agitism. Richard E Grant is both pompous and lovable as the Englishman abroad and Sarah Jessica Parker is joyous in a very early career role. A GREAT film highly recommended. Get it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the best movies I have seen in terms of its combination of romance and humour.In terms of its ability to give the viewer a picture of how quirky the people and places of of Los Angeles are,it has no equal (even the supernatural seems normal in LA Story) - a serious article in a journal couldn't be more informative.Steve Martin wrote LA Story himself and there is so much going on in the movie that you really get an insight into how much goes on in Martin's mind and just how knowledgeable he is about so many things.The cinematography and direction are top-notch and the extras section of the DVD has interviews with all the main actors and with the director.The main feature is 90 minutes of high quality cinema - if you only watch it once,but I expect most people will watch it at least two or three times.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is perhaps the best film ever by Steve Martin. It is full of humour, has a beautiful love story and is about life and its wonderful events that are sometimes happening because we want them to happen, but then they don't happen as we expect them to happen, and after all, it turns out to be even better.
Steve Martin is Harris Telemacher, he lives in Los Angeles, and he has had seven heart attacks (all imagined). This is how he starts telling his story. There are so many observations about everyday life in L.A. and you can all find them in the movie. People don't walk in L.A., they even drive to their neighbour's house. Everytime I come to a 4-way stop sign, I must remember this funny scene, where 4 cars approach from all 4 directions, stop, then politely wave at each other to make the others start driving first, and then all together hit in the middle of the crossing. But there is more than just slapstick. You can feel his true love for the city and its people, he is watching and describing them in a romantic kind of poetry.
Harris looses his girl friend an falls in love with an English woman, who herself meets her ex-husband who desperately wants her back. Harris looses his job as a weatherman, and the weather will change his life twice. So it is predicted to him by a sign post on the L.A. freeway.
Many times he quotes William Shakespeare "about L.A.", one more time mixing serious content and harmless fantasy. After that film you will know that "There are more things in heaven and earth, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
If you plan to visit Los Angeles, you should see the film as an accomodation to the unique Californian way of living and loving. Definitely my favourite movie, and, to speak with its language, "I would give it a five!"
Steve Martin is Harris Telemacher, he lives in Los Angeles, and he has had seven heart attacks (all imagined). This is how he starts telling his story. There are so many observations about everyday life in L.A. and you can all find them in the movie. People don't walk in L.A., they even drive to their neighbour's house. Everytime I come to a 4-way stop sign, I must remember this funny scene, where 4 cars approach from all 4 directions, stop, then politely wave at each other to make the others start driving first, and then all together hit in the middle of the crossing. But there is more than just slapstick. You can feel his true love for the city and its people, he is watching and describing them in a romantic kind of poetry.
Harris looses his girl friend an falls in love with an English woman, who herself meets her ex-husband who desperately wants her back. Harris looses his job as a weatherman, and the weather will change his life twice. So it is predicted to him by a sign post on the L.A. freeway.
Many times he quotes William Shakespeare "about L.A.", one more time mixing serious content and harmless fantasy. After that film you will know that "There are more things in heaven and earth, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
If you plan to visit Los Angeles, you should see the film as an accomodation to the unique Californian way of living and loving. Definitely my favourite movie, and, to speak with its language, "I would give it a five!"
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