| | | It will take your breath away.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Keep Case, English, Subtitled, Spanish, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
A high-voltage thriller with enough spine-snapping suspense to literally take your breath away. The #1 box office hit follows a young film crew as they are hijacked by a hunter obsessed witha mythic, man-eating snake.
"A creepy, crawly, guilty pleasure!" Thelma Adams, New York Post
"It's a slick, scary, funny creature feature...beautifully photographed...splendidly acted..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
A big-budget B-movie thrill ride, ANACONDA stars Jon Voight as Sarone, a hardened, crusty river man riding the Amazon who is rescued by a film crew when the propeller on his boat malfunctions. The crew, led by director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez), hopes to make a documentary about the Amazon tribe known as The People of the Mist. She is joined by her cinematographer (Ice Cube) and a scientist (Eric Stoltz), among others. Unfortunately for all of them, a monstrous, 40-foot anaconda--which habitually swallows its prey whole--is on the rampage. The snake, which is a marvel of effects technology achieved through a seamless combination of animatronics and computer animation, helped make this one of the box office success stories of 1997.
| Features | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2-Channel; Spanish, French | | Widescreen & Full Screen Versions | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Anaconda - DVD Review By: Jason McKiernan - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/22/2009 5:40 PM | |
In Anaconda, an eclectic cast of good actors badly feign terror as they run from a giant rubber tube made to look like a snake. The transparently awful digital effects indicate that the snake was also played by a computer program designed and bankrolled by the Sci-Fi Channel. As for the actors, they are entirely real -- and so, I imagine, were their paychecks. The movie has grown to become one of the premier bad movies of the last decade, as it simultaneously turned on camp-loving geek boys and reviled everyone else in such an entertaining way that the film is still a valid conversation piece. Some say the movie works as great trash. Others contend that it is a fun, modern grindhouse flick....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 11/15/2005 |
| Running Time: 89 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 81759 | | UPC: 00043396817593 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Image Award (1998) | | | Anaconda, Nominee, Best Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...An enjoyably cast, superbly shot, jolt-generating device..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 04/11/1997 p.4DNew York Times
"...A trashily entertaining reptilian version of JAWS..." 04/11/1997 p.C5 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It's a slick, scary, funny Creature Feature, beautifully photographed and splendidly acted in high adventure style..." 04/11/1997 p.33 San Francisco Chronicle 6 of 10
Anaconda is about a snake that eats everybody. That about says it all. It's a big snake with a big appetite and such a bad attitude that after it eats a fellow it regurgitates him so it can eat him all over again... There's a lot of wrapping around and hissing in Anaconda... But the sight of a man flailing and kicking, as a snake gobbles him up head first--it's the ultimate crowd pleaser. - Mick LaSalle
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