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Flawless [DVD] [1999]
enlarge	Director: Joel Schumacher Actors: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer, Skipp Sudduth Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.25 as of 22/11/2009 01:26 GMT details You Save: £13.74 (86%) New (14) Used (3) from £2.00 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 18608 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 106 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070006612 ASIN: B00005J9P3 Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1999 Release Date: June 4, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Who could possibly be the target audience for IFlawless/I? Walter (Robert De Niro) is a homophobic policeman who suffers a stroke while responding to gunshots in his own apartment building; for speech therapy, he starts taking singing lessons from his neighbour Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman of IMagnolia/I and IBoogie Nights/I), a gay drag queen who's saving up money for a sex-change operation. However, there's another storyline that takes up at least as much time as that one, about a drug dealer and his goons trying to find money that was stolen from them, brutally beating up everyone in their path. Furthermore, the local gay community (in New York City) seems to consist entirely of drag queens and Log Cabin Republicans and one of Walter's cop buddies goggles at drag queens as if he's just arrived from the middle of Iowa. All the characters--including various prostitutes, drug dealers, a hotel clerk who's a shifty mummy's boy, as well as the aforementioned drag queens and cops--are horrific stereotypes. De Niro and Hoffman, both extremely talented actors, do all they can to overcome their cliché-studded dialogue but they never seem to be in the same movie. This is far from inspiring stuff written and directed by the wildly uneven Joel Schumacher, whose up-and-down career includes IThe Lost Boys/I, ISt Elmo's Fire/I and IFalling Down/I as well as the horror that was IBatman Robin/I. --IBret Fetzer, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » A good 'Odd Couple' comedy April 21, 2001 2 out of 3 found this review helpful This is a good De Niro film to see, as it's about a paralised De Niro being taught to sing by his drag queen neighbour. The situation is intriguing in itself as the idea of an actor with the tough guy (taxi dirver/raging bull) persona being taught to sing by a drag queen is amusing. It's a nice little humourous film, has some good direction at points. The performances are very good except perhaps a few points were De Niros dialouge is restricted becasue of his parallisis. The film has some annoying steretypical swearing gangsters in it, which do annoyingly interupt a good comedy but are nessacary to add a physical threat to the two charactors. It's a good setting for a typical De Niro movie also, from the opening shots of De Niro playing hand ball with a multiracial group, in a back street area intercut with a robbery, is a typical setting for De Niro, compared to his earlier film settings. Although the film isn't quite 'flawless' in itself, it is still an amusing aswell as entertaining film with possibley one of De Niros better perfomances of the last couple of years, aswell as a good performance from the talented Phillip Seymour Hoffman. A must see September 3, 2009 M. Kimber (UK) De Niro and Hoffman's acting in this is stunning. I've watched it 3 times already and will watch it over and over again. Stunning performance by both actors February 19, 2002 pedmans@hotmail.com (Reading) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful Performing as a disabled character always seems to bring out the best in actors (e.g. Pacino - Scent of a Woman). This is definitely the case in Flawless. De Niro is most notably acclaimed for his intense performances in films such as Raging Bull, Godfather II, Casino and Taxi Driver. This film brings out a whole new side to his acting, wonderfully performing a frustrated, partially paralysed retired cop with speech problems. The latter is interesting as De Niro often has roles with strong dialogue. Hoffman also puts in a stunning performance as an extremely camp drag queen, a difficult task to pull of credibly. This film is heart-warming with some funny moments. The general motif of two extremely different characters that dislike each other yet seek each other's help is an interesting idea. I feel that the plot and script is not that brilliant, but the wonderful acting talents of the two lead roles certainly makes this otherwise average film into a very good film indeed. Definitely worth a watch. Not quite Flawless July 29, 2004 D. W. Cowl (Gloucester, UK) 2 out of 3 found this review helpful I bought this movie as I am collecting all of the DVDs I can find with the actors Robert De Niro, Kevin Spacey and Al Pacino in them. This particular DVD for Robert De Niro.brI found this movie actually rather good, the storyline has a little thought to it and though it is no Pulp Fiction for prose it does have a number of amusing instances.brThe story revolves around a bigotted ex-cop (De Niro) who has suffered a stroke whilst trying to prevent the murder of a prostitute in his apartment building. To aid his recouperation he is given singing lessons by an outwardly gay transvestite and the film then turns into a buddy movie. There are feel good moments and there are disturbing scenes when the transvestite is being attacked but as with these feel-good movies it all turns out alright, its not the best De Niro movie I've seen but it definitely is not the worst either. Very good film with great characters and one-liners you'll want to use! ;0) January 28, 2007 Dane O'Buckley (London) This is indeed a very good film, although a well kept secret. Robert de Niro plays a hard nosed, bigoted ex-cop who, after a stroke needs singing lessons and seeks the aid of Rusty, the drag queen next door. Over time the unlikely duo become friends and provide a kind solace for one another. The film has various other storylines I.e. gangsters looking for their drug money and drag queens in a beauty contest. The script is very good and Philip Seymour Hoffman is amazing as Rusty....indeed an Oscar worthy performance. The main criticism for this film has been it's stereotypes of homophobe cops and drag queens, but it has to be said, stereotypes come from somewhere. As I gay man, I recognised many familiarities.........and I have yet to meet a drag queen who is butch lol! This is not necessarily a gay film, just great one! Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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