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List Price: $39.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 24850
Category: DVD
Actors: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, Nina Van Pallandt, David Langton, Thomas Hill, Monique Mercure, Craig Richard Nelson, Maruska Stankova, Anne Gerety, Michel Maillot, Max Fleck, Francoise Berd, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis, Belita Moreno, Henry Gibson
Director: Robert Altman
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Label: 20th Century Fox
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 469 minutes
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 2.5
UPC: 024543231578
EAN: 0024543231578
ASIN: B000E6ESFS
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 1978
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Editorial Reviews:
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Episode Description: Disc 1 "MASH (single disc)": Rating: R Audio: English: Stereo & Mono / French: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Commentary with Robert Altman, AMC Backstory Featurette, Still Gallery and Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2 "A Perfect Couple": Rating: PG Audio: English: Stereo / Spanish: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Perspective on Altman's Perfect Couple, Theatrical Trailer, Fox Flix: A Wedding, Quintet, & MASH
Disc 3 "Quintet": Rating: R Audio: English: Mono & Stereo / French: Mono / Spanish: Mono Subtitled: English & Spanish Special Features: Developing the World of Quintet, Theatrical Trailer, Fox Flix: A Wedding, A Perfect Couple, & MASH
Disc 4 "A Wedding": Rating: PG Audio: English: Stereo / French: Mono / Spanish: Mono Subtitles: English & Spanish Special Features: A Wedding Altman Style, Theatrical Trailer, & Fox Flix: Quintet, A Perfect Couple, & MASH
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Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Looking for A Wedding by Itself? May 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like one of the other reviewers, I also have M*A*S*H and wanted just A Wedding by itself. Every once in a blue moon, either the Fox Movie Channel or Turner Movie Classics will play A Wedding. If your cable or satellite provider includes these channels, keep your eyes peeled for A Wedding. Then record it with a VCR or DVD recorder. That's what I did. Or we will get lucky and A Wedding will be released separately.
 The previous reviewer is clueless May 2, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The reason why A Perfect Couple, Quintet and A Wedding are being released in this set is because they were RELEASED by 20th Century Fox who also put out M.A.S.H. included in this group. O.C. & Stiggs which the reviewer mentions, is already on DVD, put out by MGM. What the reviewer fails to understand is that Altman released films done by numerous studios and you can't include just any one in a box set.While these aren't the more "well known" films in Altman's collection, for the completist we are finally getting them. Why shouldn't they be made available I ask?
 Just get M*A*S*H's 2-disc special edition April 30, 2006
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
I always thought Robert Altman had one of the most bizarre resumes in Hollywood. He could pull off an absolute classic like M*A*S*H...and then confound his admirers with an empty mess like 1980's POPEYE (which I unfortunately paid to see in a theatre and convinced several dismayed friends to waste their money as well).
When I saw that this "collection" included another Altman mega-bomb, QUINTET, I wondered why they didn't leave M*A*S*H off and replace it with Altman's horrendously-stultifying misfire, O.C. AND STIGGS from the early 80s.
Has anyone even heard of A PERFECT COUPLE and A WEDDING since they were out?
Not exactly a collection of Altman's best stuff.
P.S. I'm not saying that these films shouldn't be released--hey, completists and elitists, knock yourselves out--but I am saying that some of Altman's films are baffling and excruciating. It doesn't take away from his classics (or make me "clueless") to admit that.
Defend O.C. AND STIGGS and POPEYE and then we'll see who sounds clueless!
 Flawed but worth buying for collectors...here's what the "general public" thought April 24, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
First off, I have a love/hate relationship with Altman's films. I see each and EVERY one I can but I don't love every one and many leave me baffled or feeling totally alienated from whatever "message" or "vision" ALtman had at the time. More than few feel like experiments in the making, something he created to get to a point where he could make a film based on what he learned on a previous film.
Needless to say, the studios often had a less than kind attitude about the varying effect of his films on audiences - and the unpredictable box office profits.
Watching some of his film can be frustrating (because his great films are SO great!) that I find myself going back again and again to watch the films I didn't like, trying to give him another chance, trying to figure out what I could be missing.
So those who buy this collection of films may find themselves, as I was, totally smitten with Mash (one of my favorite films, period,) and have varied reactions to the others.
If "popular" opinion matters to you, actual viewers who commented on these films,(the kind written by your average moviegoer, not a critic or collector of obscure or unusual films) didn't relate to Quintet and had mixed feelings about A Pefect Couple and A Wedding. None of them were the solid hit that Mash was.
If you are a collector, you'll want to get this set if only because the earlier films may become even harder to find than they already are. Mash will probably remain pretty easy to get, one way or another (and it shows up on tv a lot) but the others are shown less often, although I'm sure there'll be a retrospective at some point, with some major tv airing - perhaps TNT has already done so.
While I confess that I wasn't crazy about A Wedding or A Pefect Couple either, both had some sublimely wonderful moments, the kind worth watching a movie just to see. I could have listened to the soundtrack for A Wedding and ignored the whole story - it was that good.
I always admire Altman's willingness to tenaciously cling to his vision, even if it might not pay off at the box office. He is a true original and, like so many of those, his movies may resonate only with certain viewers. Think of his films as original compositions. You'll feel yourself drawn to some more than others, just as people may tend to like certain pieces of music or art while detesting others.
Largely For Fans Of The Director April 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's nice for viewers to have "Quintet" and "A Wedding," two of Altman's more (relatively speaking) obscure films on DVD for the first time. Actually, "A Wedding" (a wildly uneven but frequently hilarious satire) did okay at the boxoffice but "Quintet," a challenging futuristic thriller, was a colossal bomb, critically drubbed, but that's not to say it's not an interesting curio, especially for fans of the director. "A Perfect Couple" is a slight but charming and offbeat romantic comedy that barely made a blip in theatres. I'd prefer to see "Brewster McCloud" and "Thieves Like Us" on DVD, but they belong to another studio (MGM). Hopefully they will eventually be made available as well. This collection gets a cumulative 4 stars..."M*A*S*H" is the only bona-fide classic of the set, but the others are all worth seeing at least once.
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