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Out of the Blue (1980) (Ws Coll)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305513322
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305513325
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-04
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Editorial Review:
Dennis Hopper knows how to grab the attention of an audience. In the opening minutes of Out of the Blue, Hopper's hard-drinking truck driver jokes with his daughter before losing control and slamming his truck into a busload of screaming children. With the camera recording the excruciating impact from inside the cab, putting the audience helplessly in the driver's seat, the cinematic whiplash jerks the audience out of any preconceived notions of how this drama will play out. Five years later, daughter Cebe (a brilliant, brooding, angry performance by Linda Manz of Days of Heaven) has grown into a rebellious punk in a backwater town barely looked after by her flighty mom (Sharon Farrell), a well-meaning but childish junkie. When Dad is sprung from jail, Cebe's hopes of a whole, healing family poignantly and painfully prove to be doomed when a spontaneous picnic collapses into bickering and blame. Cebe desperately tries to hold everyone together as the suddenly dutiful child, singing the Elvis tune "Teddy Bear" as if her love and passion will infect her hopelessly self-absorbed parents. The film occasionally lapses into pop psychology observations, but Hopper's loose, naturalistic style and sympathetic yet critical attitude inflects the drama with a painful power that finally erupts in a devastating conclusion. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Grim Fare, Not for the Faint of Heart or the Weak of Bowel
The ending is a welcome relief. Brings it up from the ranks of 'gritty b-movie horror-show', to near level of a minor classic. Socio-psychotic thrill ride. It will make our good hearts cringe in it's uncompromising vision of the world of man as a horrid stench bucket. The verdict: One viewing will suffice.
Rating:  - Hated It
I got Out of the Blue on the strength that I enjoy the acting of Raymond Burr, and his performance was great, but the movie was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I guess that I like something to make me think in a new creative way that is positive or watch something interesting that enlightens me or has a mystery or is entertaining. Instead I found this movie dramatic, yes, stirring, sure, and very emotionally packed, but with WHAT? It was very disturbing and got worse from the beginning to ... Read More
Rating:  - Dennis Hooper is a Hard Drinking Truck Driver who loses...
When I went to the theatre to see this 20 plus years ago (!!!) I did not know what to expect and at first it did not fit the description, but Dennis Hopper's directing and acting is a perfect back drop for Linda Manz's incredibe star performance. Way more "Punk" then most Punk films. And probably Dennis Hopper's most important film, and perhaps his least regarded.
Rating: - Unexpectedly wonderful
When I went to the theatre to see this 20 plus years ago (!!!) I did not know what to expect and at first it did not fit the description, but Dennis Hopper's directing and acting is a perfect back drop for Linda Manz's incredibe star performance. Way more "Punk" then most Punk films. And probably Dennis Hopper's most important film, and perhaps his least regarded.
Rating: - The worst film I have ever seen - by a country mile!
I had the misfortune to see this film in Sydney, Australia last night (on 27th November 2002) in the presence of Dennis Hopper himself. No plot, no story, inept direction, appalling sound. After the screening, Hopper in a Q and A said even tho it was financed by a Canadian organisation when it was screened at Cannes (and how, I can't imagine) the Canadians wanted nothing to do with it. It was never released on a major scale. I'm not surprised.
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