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2 Feb, 2015 By: Mike ClarkBreaking Away (Blu-ray)
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Twilight Time, Drama, $29.95 Blu-ray, ‘PG.’
Stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley.
1979. There are enough loopy moments in this minor pleasantry about competitive bicycling to argue against anyone calling these affable hundred minutes conventional.
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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
Anchor Bay, Documentary, $19.98 DVD, NR.
Featuring Jerry Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Carol Burnett.
2011. This Encore presentation isn’t a warts-and-all documentary, but it’s still OK because a love song to Jerry Lewis (especially one that plumbs his unsurpassed archives) was years overdue, and this one got me misty more than a few times (not to mention how some of the clips made me laugh out loud). This film tribute has been around on DVD for a couple of years but has been given a big push recently at Costco.
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