| | | 2 Great Movies!
Features: DVD, 2 Pack, Widescreen, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Get ready for action, excitement, double-crosses, and bloody gun fights in this exclusive Double Feature DVD! Bumble your way to the loot in Reservoir Dogs and follow a desperate junkie theif, who also happens to be a cop, in Bad Lieutenant. Harvey Keitel blows you away in both classic films!Reservoir Dogs: Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one? Bad Lieutenant: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler...a thief...a junkie...a killer and a cop. Now's he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in. Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara's brilliant and deeply disturbing melodrama.
"[Reservoir] It's brutal, it's funny and you won't forget it. Guaranteed." Hal Hinson, Washington Post
"[Bad] ...Keitel has given us one of the great screen performances in recent years." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
RESERVOIR DOGS: Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew of top-notch criminals to pull off a jewelry store heist. As the film opens it becomes immediately clear that the plan backfired, forcing the survivors, who have gathered at an abandoned warehouse, to figure out if one of them is, in fact, a police informer. The crew--Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), an aged veteran; Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), a wounded newcomer; Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), a psychopathic parolee; Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), a bickering weasel; and Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn), Joe's son--begin to unravel as the pressure becomes too much for them to handle. When Joe arrives, the truth becomes clear in a vicious Mexican standoff. BAD LIEUTENANT: Harvey Keitel stars as a nameless New York cop, hopelessly addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex, in this intense, hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption by Abel Ferrara. The film follows the lieutenant as he makes his way to various crime scenes, concerned only with taking bets from his fellow cops on the outcome of the ongoing National League playoffs. As his bad decisions drive him deeper into debt, his life becomes a surreal hell, with a constant intake of crack, coke, heroin, and booze eroding what remains of his sanity. An investigation into the rape of a nun (Frankie Thorn) leads to his spiritual breakdown at the church crime scene, where he sees Jesus and the road to his salvation. This gutsy, highly original tale is one of Ferrara's most perfectly realized films and a pinnacle in the career of Keitel, whose performance transcends the screen in its sheer bravery.
| Features | [Bad] Cast & Crew Information | | [Bad] Production Notes | | [Both] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Both] Interactive Menus | | [Both] Original Theatrical Trailer | | [Both] Scene Selection | | [Both] Subtitles: Spanish | | [Reservoir] Audio Commentaries With Filmmakers & Cast | | [Reservoir] Deleted Scenes | | [Reservoir] Interviews With Director & Cast |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 2/13/2007 |
| Running Time: 196 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 21027 | | UPC: 00012236210276 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1/1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1993) | | | Independent Spirit, Steve Buscemi, [Reservoir] Best Supporting Male | |
Nominee (1993) | | | Independent Spirit, Quentin Tarantino, [Reservoir] Best Director | | | Independent Spirit, Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender, [Reservoir] Best First Feature | |
Winner (1993) | | | Independent Spirit, Harvey Keitel, [Bad] Best Male Lead | |
Nominee (1993) | | | Independent Spirit, Abel Ferrara, [Bad] Best Director | | | Independent Spirit, Mary Kane, Edward R. Pressman, [Bad] Best Feature |
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| | Professional Reviews | ReelViews 10 of 10
[Reservoir] Reservoir Dogs grabs you by the throat and digs its claws in deep. From the moment that the unwitting viewer tumbles into the realm of Lawrence Tierney's gang of eight, they are hopelessly trapped there until the final credits roll. As the first outing for actor/director/ writer Quentin Tarantino, this is a triumph, displaying all the marks of a longtime virtuoso of the genre...Highly recommended with one caveat: those who are squeamish about blood should be wary. While the gore in this film isn't gratuitous, there's a great deal of it, and one particular torture scene is chillingly and vividly depicted. Gripping and gut-wrenching, Reservoir Dogs is likely to stay with you for a long time. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
[Bad] "Bad Lieutenant" tells the story of a man who is not comfortable inside his body or soul. He walks around filled with need and dread...Harvey Keitel plays this man with such uncompromised honesty that the performance can only be called courageous; not many actors would want to be seen in this light...Remember the Ray Liotta character in the last sequence of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas," when he is strung out on cocaine and paranoid that the cops are following him? His life speeds up, his thinking is frantic, he can run but he can't hide. The Keitel character in "Bad Lieutenant" is like that other character, many more agonizing months down the road...[Keitel] has the nerve to tackle roles like this, that other actors, even those with street images, would shy away from. He bares everything here - his body, yes, but also his weaknesses, his hungers. It is a performance given without reservation...one of the great screen performances in recent years. - Roger Ebert
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