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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 31352
Released: June 1, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Robert Evans became head of production at a major Hollywood studio at age 24. Took a studio from worst to first. And brought to the screen a phenomenal string of hits that includes Chinatown and The Godfather. He lived fast. Lived large. Lost it all. Then rose to prominence again. And now the inside-Hollywood story is revealed by ROBERT EVANS in this dazzling show-all movie that's narrated by Evans in his inimitable showman's style!
Description of The Kid Stays in the Picture:
Not only did movie mogul Robert Evans produce some of the greatest movies ever made--Chinatown, The Godfather, and Rosemary's Baby, as well as huge hits like Love Story and Urban Cowboy--but he defined Hollywood high life, dating models and movie stars and, eventually, succumbing to cocaine addiction and scandal. You don't live like this without having a huge ego, and that ego is gloriously on display in The Kid Stays in the Picture, a brilliantly dishy documentary on Evans. What puts this cunning compilation of movie clips and digitally manipulated photos over the top is that Evans himself narrates the movie with a riveting mix of narcissistic self-aggrandizement and cool self-assessment. There are no interviews with other people to give any outside perspective on this man's life; for the duration of the movie we are plunged into Evan's own head, and it's funny, sad, and always fascinating. --Bret Fetzer
The Kid Stays in the Picture Reviews:
My Favorite Film 
2009-11-11 - I adore this film. The slow and sensuous way it was filmed makes it better than most films which are made purely for entertainment. This one makes a shift in your life.
I am the Matador!!!!!
2009-03-30 - A Wonderful Tale and Story about Hollywood the Movies and Bob Evans. I caught this one night on HD Net. It let me know as I knew there had to be those great undiscovered films out there you hope to find. AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM!!
The soundtrack is also very excellent indeed. But back to the Film. A very interesting story nicely narrated by Mr. Evans himself. Beautifuly done in everyway. From start to finish a wonderous tale of his life as seen only thru his eyes a very inspiring lesson of Love and Life. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves the Art of Film! There is indeed three sides to every story but no one knows that better than Robert Evans. Again a must see, don't want give to much away. But in closing a must see for everyone. Thank Robert Evans for sharing your story. After seeing the Film I full heartly agree "THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE" Thank you Bobby Evans for "Harold and Maude" a film that truly changed one of my friends life!!
Ever Evans
2009-03-17 - A fascinating look at he metoric rise of b-list Actor Robert Evans to studio mogul. In a few shorts years, Evans goes from woman's clothing salesman turned actor to head of Paramount. While overseeing Paramount, Evans produced landmark pieces of American cinema. From The Godfather to Love Story. His rise coulnd't last has problems with drugs led to his rerlease from the studio that he helped rebuild. But, they couldn't keep the kid out of the picture nor could the keep him down.
Once upon a time in Hollywood... 
2007-09-08 - This documentary about the rise and fall and comeback of film producer Robert Evans is a must for anyone who loves movies and is interested in their history. The film is based on Evans's own book and he provides the narration as well. His weary, gravelly voice provides authenticity and I wouldn't change it, but I did switch on the sub-titles after a while because his idiosyncratic vocal rhythms are sometimes hard to follow. (Don't miss Dustin Hoffman's hilarious impersonation of him during the closing credits.) The filmmakers add moving elements and faux 3-D effects to still photographs for an innovative visual look. Evans's versions of events differs that those of many other concerned parties, but he tells an involving story.
BOB -WE'RE GLAD YOU STAYED IN THIS PICTURE!
2007-09-07 - This is not your typical Hollywood documentary by any means. Its as vibrant and stylised as Robert Evans himself. A unique,brilliant and volatile force of nature that Hollywood doesn't produce anymore. His story is the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of. And if you stay with this picture you'll see both and then some. From a short mediocre acting career to the heights of movie moguldom at Paramount, its a warts and all look at Evans' Hollywood narrated by the man himself.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE manages to be both entertaining and educational. Profound and profane and hardly suitable for "This Is Your Life" as so many legends from old Hollywood were remembered. Evans gets his iconic life interlocked with the very iconic movies he created. "Rosemary's Baby", "Love Story", "The Godfather" to "Chinatown and "The Cotton Club", to name just a few. Paramount Pictures was the first Hollywood studio to be bought by a conglomerate. For Evans it was perfect timing, as he tells it in the picture but even better and more to the point, as documented in Gus Russo's book "Supermob" (also available on Amazon). It wasn't just perfect timing, but having the right friend to recommend you to the powers that be. He's briefly mentioned in the picture, but when it comes to power inside of Hollywood and out of it, Sidney Korshak is the man who takes care of business. But thats another story.
The producers could have easily found a thousand people to talk about Bob, but then that would have made it just another routine fluffy biography. As Evans is quoted at the very beginning "There are three sides to every story. Your side. My side. And the truth". With this story thankfully, its not always easy to tell the sides apart. And thats what makes a great picture!
