Hi, Mom! details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Lara Parker, Allen Garfield, Charles Durning, Robert De Niro |
| Director: | Brian De Palma |
| Genres: | Comedy - General, Drama |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | Happy Birthday!, New York, New York, Robert De Niro |
| Name | Discs | |
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Hi, Mom! |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 23 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 01 Sep 2001 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | German, Italian, Polish |
| Subtitles: | Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English, German |
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3 films for the price of 1
By Saty from Reading , 04 Mar 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
First you get De Niro with superb comic timing and an assured light touch as a movie maker trying to sell reality based sex scenes to a porn mogul and gets so carried away that he sets himself up to seduce a lonely woman he has been spying on with hilarious results, given a swinging sixties soundtrack and a swanee whistle it could pass for a 'Confessions' film. Then we get the 'Be Black Baby' section which is completely out of the blue and De Palma could never have got funding for this movie if he had pitched it based on this section. It is still a shocking visceral piece although you know that the 'participants' would have gone to the law courts after the show rather than thank the actors. The final part sees De Niro become a prototype Tyler Durdan and again does not truly follow on from before but is still amazing cinema. Well worth watching for anyone who wants to see the path Brian De Palma could have taken and when De Niro didn't find comedy laboured.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from London , 06 Feb 2010Excellent and fun. If you want to see something thought provoking, strange and filmed well see this.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Unusual film, doesn't quite hit the mark
By a customer from London , 21 Jan 2008At the end of this film I felt that I didn't quite understand what the director was getting at. There were some good ideas with the Be Black troupe and some comments on tv intrusivity and the like (which look a little quaint now but are really more relevant than ever).
I didn't understand DeNiro's character and how he seemed so different at different points of the film which was in itself very dijointed.
Overall it seemed that there were lots of good ideas not quite realised and not quite as funny or biting as they could have been. Almost good is how I would describe it. The soundtrack was very good though.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Grossly self-indulgent but engaging all the same
By johnny_friendly from London, England , 05 Feb 2006This is an early outing for both De Niro and De Palma and its appeal really comes from that historical curiosity. The entire film comes across as a wildly egotistical exercise on the part of De Palma and it's evident that here was a young and upcoming director experimenting with his ideas more than anything else. It's a disjointed film that doesn't really say anything nor does it have that much in the way of cinematography other than a few peach moments (check out the pornographer whom De Niro tries to pitch too - he's got some terrific lines). And then there's De Niro. An interesting though not really revealing performance although there are strong premonitions of Travis Bickle at many points. But ultimately, as I said earlier, this is a film that will really appeal only to those who want to investigate the roots of two great Italian-American film icons. As for the Black Power segment, I'm sure it was in-your-face and provocative at the time but today it just appears clumsy and ham-fisted (though still worth watching)- Was this review helpful to you?
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3 films for the price of 1
By Saty from Reading , 04 Mar 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
First you get De Niro with superb comic timing and an assured light touch as a movie maker trying to sell reality based sex scenes to a porn mogul and gets so carried away that he sets himself up to seduce a lonely woman he has been spying on with hilarious results, given a swinging sixties soundtrack and a swanee whistle it could pass for a 'Confessions' film. Then we get the 'Be Black Baby' section which is completely out of the blue and De Palma could never have got funding for this movie if he had pitched it based on this section. It is still a shocking visceral piece although you know that the 'participants' would have gone to the law courts after the show rather than thank the actors. The final part sees De Niro become a prototype Tyler Durdan and again does not truly follow on from before but is still amazing cinema. Well worth watching for anyone who wants to see the path Brian De Palma could have taken and when De Niro didn't find comedy laboured.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Bizarre early DeNiro fodder
By TristanWhite (307 reviews) from London, UK , 13 Jan 2005This film is better known as 'Hi Mom'... at least that's the title I knew it by.
It's really quite a strange one. DeNiro is a voyeur obsessed with filming people without them knowing, and even tries to film him having sex with a neighbour he has been spying on from the other building in the Project. But this is all by-the-by.
The best thing about this film is the long (and brilliant) sequence in which white middle class Americans participate (somewhat unwittingly) in an extraordinary theatre play in which they become black (Be Black, Baby!) and become discriminated against in a terrifying sequence of events. Worth it just for these scene.- Was this review helpful to you?
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