Tiptoes details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Patricia Arquette, Peter Dinklage, Gary Oldman, Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale |
| Director: | Matthew Bright |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama - General |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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Tiptoes |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 31 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 18 Jul 2005 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Another Matthew Bright oddity
By Melon from East Sussex , 15 Aug 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Matthew Bright is one of the strangest American film-makers around. His 'Freeway' with Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland is a true cult trash classic.
'Tiptoes' falls oddly between comedy and sentimental stools however. You really aren't sure whether to laugh or cry most of the time. The story of Matthew MacConaughy and Kate Beckinsale coming to terms with their baby being born a midget is a genuine Jerry Springer episode writ large with great actors (Peter Dinklage as the French Marxist free spirit midget mate is particularly good value for money). It runs through the usual po-faced earnest TV movie of the week cliches, but never seems to bounce far enough out of the box to be anything more than that. Therefore a lot of the interest comes with superficial details such as how Gary Oldman was photographed in totally realistic little person form.
It just doesn't hang together properly. With a Matthew Bright film this would normally be a bonus, but here makes it all sadly disappointing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(6)Confusing and Disappointing
By Laura Billinge from Cambridge, England , 06 Dec 2007The biggest problem with Tiptoes is that it doesn't seem to know what story it's meant to be telling. The characters are given no development, no motivation and frankly, at a mere 85 minutes, it feels as though someone's randomly extracted every other scene and cut out the last half hour of the film. Beckinsale brings nothing new to a dull, stereotyped role, Oldman is lacking in the charisma he usually provides and McConaughey appears to be playing a different character in each scene. The IMDB lists this as Comedy / Drama / Romance. There is little comedy, the dramatic focus shifts every ten minutes and the romance ends before it even begins. Peter Dinklage was the only actor whose performance was consistantly interesting and entertaining, which makes it all the more disappointing that his was a mere supporting role, when clearly the Maurice / Lucy relationship should have been the A storyline. Basically this is an issue driven movie that spends an hour and a half skirting the issue. A complete waste of time.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Horrible
By UK Yank from Ipswich , 12 Dec 2006I rented this...well because I think Matthew is hot and his movies are usually really good....Oh was I wrong, The only funny part of the movie was when they showed a scene of a room full of midgets.
While watching this, I often thought of various ways to play with string. Because that was more intresting then the movie and I was too lazy to get up and turn it off.
Needless to say Dont rent this movie,unless you think midgets are funny..Then you can fastforward to the parts of them dancing- Was this review helpful to you?
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Tiptoes
By Doug Ward from Shute Shelve, England , 14 Jan 2006Arty start Kate Beckinsale painting a picture of like 1000 roses then showing the next part of her personality being affirmative and taking what she wants. When she falls pregnant she finds her boyfriend Steven (Matthew McConaughey) the father of the child has a history of littleness in the family. Stevens’s brother and Maurice (little guy from the station agent) are on a road trip on bikes pick up a hitchhiker who Maurice becomes involved with the film also follows the story of these two and they’re relationships as a side. With the new risk the baby could be little, while Steven is away Kate looks into the life, struggles and things little people go through. Although Kate kind of gets over the idea Matt really reacts and is suggested counselling. After getting married and having the baby it seems things aren’t going to work out. Or are they?- Was this review helpful to you?
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this was very moving and was a really good idea
By Hooch's owners from the New Forest , 02 Nov 2005this was very moving and was a really good idea, but the editing seemed bitty, it was almost as if they couldn't decide quite what way to go with the film as they were making it, and so it came across as quite erratic, I think it was a good story that could have been handled much better.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Weak All Around
By a customer from manchester, England , 29 Oct 2005Everything about this movie was weak with the exception of Peter Dinklage's performance, which was the only decent one. The action was weak, the dialogue was weak and aspects of the movie were unbelievable. Gary Oldman is an incredible actor, but this role was just wrong for him. He was playing a little person, but he was not believable as a little person, he just looked like he spent the movie walking around on his knees. This movie had potential to be interesting and touching, but instead it was just dull and at times seemed like an educational video about little people.- Was this review helpful to you?
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