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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 24430
Released: August 2, 2005 |
| Our Price: $2.22 |
| Used Price: $0.49 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
HARMONY IS A COSMETICS SALES LADY WHOSE LIFE IS SHAPED BY ANEARLY ENCOUNTER WITH THE KING HIMSELF. IT ALL TAKES AN UGLY TURN WHEN SHE ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SOME ELVIS IMPERSONATORS & FLEES THE SCENE. RUNNING FROM THE FBI, HARMONY LEAVES ELVIS IMPERSONATORS IN HER WAKE.
Elvis Has Left the Building Reviews:
Great Movie 
2007-02-04 - i love this movie the best part was the end. i had thought it would have been an old fart movie but its not! Loved It! great comedy.
one thing every one will enjoy!
If you like silly movies, watch this one. 
2006-03-31 - This movie is silly. You will have a few laughs and that is about it. If you are an Elvis fan, don't bother. This movie degrades Elvis. He deserves better. If you are not an Elvis fan, give it a try. You wouldn't understand anyway. Kim Basinger seems to keep running into Elvis inpersonators and magically they have freak accidents that kill them. Kim is running from them and is feeling guilty. She finds love in the end which helps her through her crisis.
Too good for straight to DVD 
2006-03-30 - First, I rented this movie; then I ordered a copy for my personal collection. I liked it that much. If you're a fan of The King, you will want to see it; if you're not (how could you?), it still has a better storyline and more humor than much of what does make it to the big screen.
Kim Basinger also graced the film with her combination of beauty and a talent for comedy not seen since "Nadine" or "My Stepmother Is An Alien". She should do this more often.
Total Fun, Even if You're Not an Elvis Fan.
2006-03-26 - I didn't think much of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but I liked this movie a lot. I bought it yesterday at this writing for 5 bucks at a local video store, and found myself laughing a lot. I don't know if it helps not to be an Elvis fan, but even if you are, let's admit it: there are too many knockoffs of the King running around--lots of them truly as bad as what are portrayed in this offering--and as Basinger's character says in the end, he's probably not too happy about it.
I became a Basinger fan when I saw the movie Nadine back in 1987, and it's wonderful to see her in another romantic comedy. Even better this time, because there isn't a bunch of swearing. I think the last good comedy I saw her in was My Stepmother is An Alien, and that was laugh-out-loud funny too. This one's been long overdue, and she is just wonderful in it as Pink Lady sales rep Harmony Jones. I would also like to point out that the woman is still a gorgeous knockout for her age--even better than most of today's younger starlets. Her character is amusingly glam looking, yet clean cut, completely feminine, and that's what makes her comedic performance twice as good. Corbett makes a handsome match for her as he, as well as the FBI, chases her around the country--both of them driving great looking convertibles--and the romance has a sweet clean, almost yesteryear appeal that you won't be afraid to let your older relatives watch.
Joel Zwick came up with a great concept here; Elvis impersonators getting killed off at random in some very silly and hilarious ways everytime Harmony gets within 3 feet of them, and a love affair Harmony keeps running from because she thinks Corbett is another Elvis impersonator when, in fact, it's his estranged wife (Denise Richards). I have to admit I wasn't expecting much when I bought it off the bargain rack, but was pleasantly surpirsed last night. It's not deep, it's not earth shattering, but it's the most clean fun I've had in a long time, and I recommend it highly no matter what your age. Also, if you like Basinger in comedy roles using her natural Georgia-born accent, you will like her and Jeff Bridges in Nadine.
Sweet and funny
2006-01-06 - I must admit that I have never have, nor ever will be an Elvis fan, but there is something about this movie that just appeals to me. Its funny, light and sweet, something that comedies just seem to missing these days. Not as hardcore as Wedding Crashers, yet not as beautifully romantic as My big Fat Greek Wedding, Elvis has left the building stands in a genre all its own.
Don't miss at least renting and watching this movie..........its sure to make you laugh in the end at least. Sean Astin, John Corbett, and Kim Basinger...........well I can't say much for Basinger, but I can tell you that the former two where absolutly wonderful.
Try it, you just may be suprised.
