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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 4460
Released: May 6, 2003 |
| Our Price: $4.88 |
| Used Price: $4.03 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Hollywood superstar Sylvester Stallone teams up with comedy director John Landis (ANIMAL HOUSE, TRADING PLACES, COMING TO AMERICA), and the results are hilarious! Stallone plays Chicago's #1 gangster, "Snaps" Provolone. After promising his father that he'll quit his life of crime, Snaps realizes it's an offer he should have refused! As the mobster tries to quit the rackets, everybody gets into the act -- friends, family -- even the Feds! Snaps soon discovers going straight is the toughest job he's ever pulled! Critics coast-to-coast praised this fun-filled big-screen treat -- you'll find it packed with laughs from beginning to end!
Description of Oscar:
Oscar was Sylvester Stallone's agreeable, 1991 effort at broad comedy, a fast-talking, suspender-snapping gangster farce featuring the Rambo star as a 1930s Chicago mob boss, Snaps Provolone, trying to go straight during overlapping personal crises. No, this isn't Billy Wilder, but director John Landis (Coming to America) has crackling fun with Oscar's fruit salad of traditional comic themes and tools, including mistaken identities, a powerful man's weakness for his children, and a nonstop parade of outre secondary characters. The cast includes Kirk Douglas as Stallone's father, whose deathbed wish compels Snaps to go into legitimate banking at the exact moment the latter's daughter (Marisa Tomei) announces her love for a chauffeur. Meanwhile, another woman claiming to be Snaps's offspring is engaged to a fellow (Vincent Spano) who has stolen $50,000 of the big man's money. Wackiness ensues. The winning cast includes Peter Riegert, Don Ameche, Chazz Palminteri, Eddie Bracken, Harry Shearer, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Bruce Davison. --Tom Keogh
Oscar Reviews:
Oscar 
2009-11-22 - After viewing Oscar on vhs some years ago I wanted it for my viedo library but was unable to purchase it. When DVDs came out I still was not able to buy it either, until my daughter and I came across your web site. One problem is that it is NTSC and Australia has Pal. We have been able to watch the movie. Do you have it in the Pal mode? Gaye
Oscar
2009-09-04 - I had seen Oscar before, that' s why I bought it now. I love seeing Stallone in a comic role, rather than his other macho roles, which do nothing for me. I specially like the opening with the opera cartoon. All the actors are very good. I enjoyed the movie very much. R MacDonald
Another reason to watch " Oscar " 
2009-07-13 - I had to watch " Oscar " again just to see Ornella Muti. This woman is absolutely GORGEOUS !
Good Movies
2009-07-04 - This is a movie I have always liked and I got it here for a great price. The shipping time was extrordinary. I had it days before I expected it.
How not to take yourself too seriously!
2009-06-15 - What a Joke! What a Farce! What a Relief! Stallone is a rip roarin' wise guy going legit. And it never looked so hard or so funny as in this light hearted production that my children and I first watched 12 years ago. I just wanted to laugh while I was working late nights on a project . I didn't want ugliness, pain, drugs,overt sex, or nasty humor. I wanted to laugh at silly and 'Oscar 'delivered the goods. Stallone not only is beautiful to look at in his gorgeous suits but he can deliver a punch line as well and as fast as Rocky ever landed a fist. The film is filled to the brim with delicious performances from a brilliant cast bent on not slumming it.
My children went around repeating " Mr. Provolone! " in that special Tim Curry way anytime they wanted to reduce their siblings to giggles and my oldest son practiced the Stallone deadpan to the Camera look whenever he wanted to convey adolescent outrage with my current actions. This film is a great family funny night movie. Some mature themes: but handled well and with a light hand. Why didn't Stallone do more?!
