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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 13128
Released: May 11, 2004 |
| Our Price: $2.93 |
| Used Price: $5.49 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Elvis Presley is at his dreamboat peak in this musical comedy that finds the sexy star crooning five original songs in an "amusing and fast-paced" (Variety) romp boasting a "delightful mixtureof songs, romance, humor and good old homespun warmth" (Citizen-News)! When his scheming pop decides to "homestead" the family on a public beach, Toby Kwimper (Presley) digs the exotic settingbut hates the attention he is suddenly receiving. Though he just wants to play his guitar, Toby finds himself up to his baby blues in trouble with government bureaucrats, crime bosses and even two smitten "kittens"an adopted little sister who feels more than sisterly love for him and a social worker with more than his welfare on her mind!
Description of Follow That Dream:
Elvis hadn't dyed his hair a permanent midnight black yet in Follow That Dream, which is another way of saying this is still the point in his career when he was making movies, not just Elvis Presley vehicles. Elvis road-trips with his crabby, anti-government pop (Arthur O'Connell) and an adopted brood to a Florida beach, which by a legal quirk they can homestead. The authorities and some fairly unbelievable gangsters would like to stop them. The songs are undistinguished but not awful, the scenery is nice, and Elvis--looking well-fed and relaxed--shows off good comedic chops doing a dumb-guy shtick. Screenwriter Charles Lederer and director Gordon Douglas are a class act by Presley picture standards, keeping the sitcom-style plot moving along. No fancy clothes or cars in this one, just Elvis and some beachcombing and an old git-tar, and not a bad time-killer for all that. --Robert Horton
Follow That Dream Reviews:
"Follow that dream" My favorite teenage Elvis movie 
2009-03-08 - I love this movie, it's entertaining and good for the whole family, Elvis was at his carefree, comical best. The whole experience was good, good shipping time, good conditon.....highly recommended
A fun elvis flick
2009-03-05 - One of the better Elvis movies. He was charming, the scenery was good. The supporting cast was fun. All in all a fun, feel good movie.
Follow that dream 
2009-01-12 - This is the only Elvis movie I never had, and found it very hard to get, it is not particularly good, but Elvis is Elvis, and you can't get enough of him.
Thanks Amazon for finding Elvis for me....Geraldine
Review the film for its content and not its aspect ratio!
2008-09-25 - This film has already been summarized & reviewed - for me, this is a 4* fun Elvis film; gave it a 5* rating to counter-balance the many 1* ratings complaining about the lack of a WS version - this is NOT an evaluation of the film - just irritates me! There is a 'flippy' letterbox version in 2.35:1 aspect ratio but it is not anamorphic (which is my preference - and I agree that the company should have done this movie in that format) - but this is a quite good comedic romp for Elvis & love Arthur as papa! Avoid the negative reviews and give this a watch, please.
Great entertainment
2007-11-24 - This DVD of Elvis is a must for Elvis fans. Very entertaining and funny with great music.
