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Fool for Love
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860150
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860152
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: 1006174
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1985-12
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Editorial Review:
Sam Shepard and Kim Basinger ignite a sexual bonfire whose embers will haunt you (People) in this explosive tale of doomed love and loss in the barren unforgiving West. Based on Shepard s own award-winning play and directed by seven-time Oscar® nominee* Robert Altman Fool for Love is a stunning collaboration (Newsweek). Cowboy drifter Eddie (Shepard) reconnects with May (Basinger) the love of his life in a seedy desert motel even though she s taken up with a new boyfriend (Randy Quaid). But that s not the only threat to their rekindled passion. A mysterious old man (Harry Dean Stanton) also harbors a secret so dark and forbidden it could destroy Eddie and May s love forever.Special Features:Robert Altman: Art and Soul FeaturetteOriginal Theatrical TrailerSystem Requirements: Running Time 107 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 027616903761 Manufacturer No: 1006174
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Really good, but sometimes slow and hard to watch.
I love Sam Shepard, so I'll see or read just about anything he's done. This one's a little hard to watch, though, partly because of pace, partly because of a slight bit of over-dramatizing from actors and director, and partly because of subject matter. Despite all this, it's still worth watching.
Rating:  - Excellent 20 years ago, still excellent.
Eighteen, 19, 20 years ago, I first saw this film. I loved it, my teenaged kids loved it. I had no idea Sam Shepard had written the play, or even that there was a play, though it seems obvious now. We watched this over and over. I still play the sound track, sung, I found out somewhere recently, by Sam's sister, Sandy Rogers--talk about alternative country! I still watch this film from time to time. It's enchanting, it's funny, it's mysterious, and there's that kick-ass soundtrack. It never ... Read More
Rating:  - Lots of heat, but no fire
This is Sam Sheppard's (he wrote and stars in it) incestuous love story, told at a fever pitch. Eddie (Sheppard) and May (Kim Basinger) have been lovers since high school; only later do they find out they have the same father. Their relationship becomes one of frustration and rage as they dance around each other in a seedy motel somewhere in the West, yelling and socking each other over a passion that cannot be. It goes on too long and the flashbacks that reveal the root of the problem come too late ... Read More
Rating: - A great Robert Altman ý Sam Shepard collaboration
The first perceptions one has of a work of art likely set one's standard by which that work is subsequently judged in comparison with its presentation in another medium. For example if the work is first encountered as a stage-play, then that form becomes the defacto standard for later comparisons, and a subsequent film of that work will likely never achieve one's preconceived expectations. This reviewer first encountered "Fool for Love" in a local theatre in 1985, never having seen the original play.
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Rating: - Same old Shepard galvanized by master artisan
Shepard loves incest, family abuse, cowboys and rambling loose dialogue. And that seems to be all he knows. For all of his artistic integrity his plays have always felt a little on the nose and a little juvenile (his films even worse!). Altman's multiplicity of points of view, suppressed narration and mass-media-esque techniques give wonderful life to a play that is hardly worth the attention.
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