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| | Label: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Salesrank: 49000
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| Our Price: $34.99 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Rosie O'Donnell can act. She was great as the wiseacre in A League of Their Own and passable in a similar role in the sequel to Stakeout. Since I'm being generous, her talk show was even entertaining at times, if you go in for that celebrity-fawning type of thing. But this performance is so embarrassingly awful you might question whether she is indeed acting or if she has been struck with what her character suffers from. How else to explain her choices? Mismatched pastel Chuck Taylors with a Tweety Bird T-shirt? A voice somewhere between Pee-wee Herman and Yoda, but without the likability? If Rosie really wanted to do something for the mentally challenged, she would have stuck to executive producing and hired an actual mentally challenged actor. It's not like they could do any worse. From the Forrest Gump pose on a bench on the DVD cover to the Rainmanesque quips, she seems to be changing her characterization every scene. And let's not forget who directed? John Huston's very own daughter. I mean Anjelica Huston must have watched her dad's films. She was practically married to Jack Nicholson so she must have watched his films. Do you not think just a little bit of that talent might have rubbed off on her? This is clearly ego run amok. High-profile celebrities trying "to make a difference" but just demonstrating how woefully out-of-touch they are.
Riding The Bus With My Sister - Gold Crown Collector's Edition Reviews:
A movie that stays with you 
2009-10-11 - I really enjoyed this movie and it's one that stays with you long after it's over. It's a heartfelt, funny, enjoyable movie that I hope to watch again some day.
Hurray!
2009-02-06 - RtBwMS is one of the greatest so-bad-it's-good movies. I'm not saying this in a sarcastic or ironic fashion either--I truly love this movie. When I picture Anjelica Huston sitting at the video village, concentrating on Rosie's ludicrous performance going, Okay, okay, Rosie? Great stuff, but could you maybe play it more offensive? Maybe like full retard? Astonishing.
There are few movies that for my friends and I have this much repeat value--truly hilarious every time, and what's more is that the movie gets even funnier when you begin questioning its logic and random assortment of details (such as the scary man who offers Rosie a doll at one point and then is never seen or heard from again).
So many stars.
Rosie is a Bama 
2007-11-09 - This movie is terrible. I watched it hoping the bus would drive into a ravine.
A ridiculous movie
2006-04-05 - It always facinates me when celebritys play learning disabled, retarded, depressed,etc... people. This is because I have to assume that none of these people live in hollywood. I used to think that Sean Penn's portrayal of a retarded man in "I Am Sam" was the most over the top porly done, insulting performance but Rosie blew him out of the water. Apparently retarded women only talk as though they are screaming, and also sound like Jim the Drunk from the TV show "Taxi". I guess they couldn't cast a real retarded person because apparently they don't act retarded enough. Buy this movie for the same reason you would buy a copy of the movie "Showgirls" so you can laugh at how idiotic it is. Andy MacDowell has a limited range but is usually very good at picking rolls for herself, and I have liked Rosie in other movies like Legue of their own and Another Stakeout but this was torture to sit through.
A Known Thespian: O'Donnell Nails It!
2006-03-31 - Heroic! Courageous! Brave! Daring! These are all words I would use to describe you, if you were able to sit through this tour de force of a performance by Rosie O'Donnell. Not because it's so bad as some have suggested, but because you will NEVER forget this film. Rosie has not only elevated her acting skills, she elevates the viewer as well to a place I like to call "Rosie O'Nirvana." I have always been a fan of Rosie's super subtle, light on humor standup act, but her performance here puts her in the company of Dustin Hoffman and Daniel Day Lewis. If they were in the same airport bus. Her performance is never so cloying and over-the-top that I have to catch my breath after her scenes because they are uncomfortable to view. And to those out there who suggested it, NO This should not be rated X due to the fact that it may shock you, disgust you and disturb you. It will, but in a good way. I also want to salute Angelo Tsarouchas for his performance as Mean Eugene though -- it was superior.
