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| Product Details |
| The original fractured fairytale - The Princess Bride - is now more captivating with this 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition! Now with three featurettes and the all-new True Love And High Adventure interactive DVD game, this "real dream of a movie" ( People ) is now a fantastical DVD! Heartbroken over the death of her beloved Westley (Cary Elwes), beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) finally succumbs to the advances of the wicked Prince Humperdinck. Yet, when she's suddenly kidnapped by a motley gang of deviants, what gallant hero comes to her rescue? None other than Westley - alive, well... and as wonderful as ever! But before these two can live happily ever after, they must first overcome formidable odds. |
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Key Information
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| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Directors: |
Rob Reiner |
| Actors: |
Andri the Giant · Billy Crystal · Carol Kane · Chris Sarandon · Christopher Guest · Fred Savage · Mandy Patinkin · Mel Smith · Peter Falk · Wallace Shawn |
| Stars: |
Cary Elwes · Robin Wright |
| UPC: |
027616092199, 027616092205, 027616146403, 027616146410, 027616685537, 027616806420, 027616865731, 042995770933, 883904117803, 883904117810, 883904117865, 883904133582, 883904137108, 883904140207 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 29min |
| Available Formats: |
DVD, DVD: 20th Anniversary Edition; Valentine Faceplate; Canadian, DVD: Buttercup Edition, DVD: Canadian; 20th Anniversary Edition, DVD: Canadian; Sensormatic; Breast Cancer O-Ring; Widescreen, DVD: Canadian; Sensormatic; Holiday O-Ring; Widescreen, DVD: Canadian; Special Edition w/ Movie Cash, DVD: Canadian; Special Edition w/ Spa Cash; Checkpoint; Movie Cas, DVD: Checkpoint; Sensormatic; Breast Cancer O-Ring; Widescreen, DVD: Special Edition w/ Movie Cash, DVD: The Dread Pirate Edition, VHS, VHS: Clam Shell Case; Family Entertainment |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended |
| Release Date: |
1987 |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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VHS Editions
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- VHS: Clam Shell Case; Family Entertainment
- 1hr 42min
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- February 03, 1998
- PG (MPAA)
- 027616685537
- Sound Features: HiFi, Stereo
, - VHS
- 1hr 38min
- Movies Unlimited
- PG (MPAA)
, - VHS
- 1hr 38min
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- June 29, 1994
- PG (MPAA)
- 042995770933
- Sound Features: HiFi
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
William Goldman |
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Professional Reviews
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(02/01/2001, p.64, Danny Leigh): "Reiner's beautifully crafted fairytale pastiche still represents one of the high points of US comedy in the 1980s...", (05/01/2000, p.118, Ceri Thomas): "...Rob Reiner's uncategorisable blend of action, romance, spoof, swashbuckler and fairytale is purely and simply a corking movie...", (09/14/2001, p.71, Marc Bernardin): "...THE PRINCESS BRIDE is a fun, sad, scary, witty fairy tale featuring the greatest performance ever given by a professional wrestler, the late Andre the Giant...", (09/16/1987, Jagr.): "...At heart, PRINCESS BRIDE celebrates the power of true love to triumph over adversity...", (09/25/1987, p.C10, Janet Maslin): "...Sweetness and sincerity....A delightful cast and a cheery, earnest style that turns out to be ever more disarming..."
, (11/01/2008, p.146-147, Neil Smith): 5 stars out of 5 -- "It was influential...the current crop of fractured fairy tales clearly owe a great debt to its groundbreaking balancing act of melodramatic pastiche, light-heart |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Farm boy, fill these with water...please."--Buttercup (Robin Wright)
"As you wish."--Westley (Cary Elwes)
"Is this a kissing book?"--Grandson (Fred Savage) to his grandfather (Peter Falk)
"I won't be seeing you again, since I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite."--Buttercup to the king (Willoughby Gray)
"Won't that be nice..."--The king, obviously senile
"No more rhymes now...I mean it!"--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn)
"Anybody want a peanut?"--Fezzik (Andri the Giant)
"Inconceivable!"--Vizzini
"I admit it...you are better than I am."--Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), regarding Westley's swordfighting technique
"Then why are you smiling?"--Westley
"Because I know something you don't know."--Inigo
"And what is that?"--Westley
"I...am not left-handed!"--Inigo, as he shifts his sword to his right hand
"You are amazing!"--Westley
"I ought to be...after 20 years."--Inigo
"Oh, there's something I ou |
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