Other Sellers on Amazon
77% positive over last 12 months
99% positive over last 12 months
Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- Sorry, this item is not available in
- Image not available
- To view this video download Flash Player
Nebraska (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD)
Return this item for free
Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges
Learn more about free returns.- Go to your orders and start the return
- Select the return method
- Ship it!
Return this item for free
Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges
Learn more about free returns.- Go to your orders and start the return
- Select the return method
- Ship it!
Return this item for free
Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges
Learn more about free returns.- Go to your orders and start the return
- Select the return method
- Ship it!
Additional Multi-Format options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
Multi-Format
September 9, 2014 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
—
| $11.55 | $3.15 |
Multi-Format
July 1, 2014 "Please retry" | — | — |
—
| — | $12.24 |
Watch Instantly with | Rent | Buy |
Nebraska (B&W) | — | — |
Purchase options and add-ons
Genre | Drama |
Format | Dubbed, Blu-ray, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Digital_copy, Dolby, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Alexander Payne, Will Forte, Stacy Keach |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 51 minutes |
Frequently bought together
Similar items that may deliver to you quickly
- About Schmidt (BD) [Blu-ray]Jack NicholsonBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1
- The Holdovers (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital)Paul GiamattiBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1
- Election (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]Matthew BroderickBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1
- The Descendants (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy)Payne, AlexanderBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1Only 9 left in stock - order soon.
- Past Lives [Blu-ray]Greta LeeBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1
- The Iron Claw Bluray + DVD + DigitalZac EfronBlu-rayFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Monday, Apr 1
Product Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 6.7 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 12072950
- Director : Alexander Payne
- Media Format : Dubbed, Blu-ray, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Digital_copy, Dolby, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 1 hour and 51 minutes
- Release date : February 25, 2014
- Actors : Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Studio : Paramount
- ASIN : B00H9L28OO
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,275 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,156 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
- Customer Reviews:
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonReviews with images
-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
This is about a man in his early 80s seeking a reason to go on living. Like Ulysses, like Jason, he is on a quest to seek his fortune. He is the American, mid-west questing hero. Along the way of his journey, he encounters the barriers which he must overcome to find his fortune and is finally successful. He may not even be aware that he has won something he never worked for, but he has won, and the story has a poignant and touching ending.
Director Alexander Payne chose to shoot this film in black and white. This evokes a feeling of nostalgia, a yearning for things past, and the flat landscape of Northern Nebraska does not lose anything from not being in brilliant colour. The landscape may be flat, dull and repetitive but it is important, for it is here that our food is grown. It is the breadbasket of the country. The inhabitants we meet along Willy Grant's journey may seem dull, eccentric and humorous with their country ways, but these are brave people who battle climate and market prices to eke out a living while growing our food. Often laughed at, they are the unsung heroes who give us our daily bread.
The movie opens with a shot of Willy Grant walking on the shoulder of a highway. He walks with bent back and quick step as if he is going to collapse under the weight of gravity, but his step is one of determination.. A police officer stops and asks him what he is doing. He lives in Billings, Montana, and he tells the officer that he is walking to Nebraska. He is taken to the police station and David (Will Forte) his younger son, is called to pick him up.
No one, not even his cranky, exasperated wife played by Jane Squibb, can talk him out of going on this journey. He has lost his driving license and no one will drive him to Nebraska, so he decides to walk.
The two sons discuss the situation. The older one thinks their father has Alzheimer's. The younger one does not think so. He believes that his father is seeking a purpose to go on living. During the conversation, the older son points out that their father has been a drunk who never paid attention to them whatsoever. This seems to be his excuse for not helping his father realize his quest.
Drunk and neglectful father or not, the younger son, David, finally decides to drive his father to Lincoln, Nebraska, so that Willy can realize his dream. It seems that Willy received one of those pseudo magazine subscription flyers which screams in bold letters: "You have won $1,000,000." Willy doesn't read the finer print that says, "If you have the winning numbers." He assumes he has won and is on his way to Lincoln to collect the money.
When the younger son David can no longer talk any sense into his father, he agrees to take Willy to Lincoln. What happens on their journey is the bulk of the story. Staying for a day in Hawthorne, Nebraska (which my Nebraska-born husband tells me is a fictional town) Willy encounters his past and picks up his old habit of drinking excessively. When old-time friends and relatives find out he has won "the lottery", well, suddenly he has tons of friends and tons of family, all with their hands out.
His adventures include being robbed by his nephews, being hospitalized, from which he runs away, being humiliated in front of his former friends, being disappointed and finally, being vindicated through the exceptionally good graces of his son, David. The man who humiliates him is Ed Pegram, his former business partner, played well by actor Stacy Keach.
As the son, David, hears bits and pieces of his father's past, he becomes aware that Willy's life has not always been so mundane. He was shot down in Korea; he had a former love who never quite got over him; as well, it is said that he was in love with a "half breed" (so-called by Ed Pegram) and wanted to divorce his wife. But Ed says he talked Willy out of it, since in those days, divorce was a sin. Ed notes that, over the decades, "God must have changed His mind."
There are some marvelously humorous scenes with Jane Squibb as the long-suffering wife, as she visits a grave yard, and inadvertently becomes a party to a hilarious theft by her sons. She also protects her husband from some greedy relatives and gives them a comeuppance, complete with the F word, which shocks these straight-laced farmer types.
In Lincoln, Woody learns the truth of the scam and gets no money. The office person asks the son if he has Alzheimer's. The son says no - that he just believes what people tell him. She replies, "That's too bad."
David asks his father why he wants the money. He says - so that he can have a new pickup truck and leave something for his sons. David tells him that they don't need anything and why does he want the truck when he can't drive. Turns out he just wants it "to have."
On the way back to Montana, David makes a few choices which will enrich Woody' s life and his standing in his hometown of Hawthorne. Woody leaves the town with pride, not aware that he has, indeed, won the lottery.
To win the lottery is to get something one has not worked for. Woody has ignored his children and never loved his wife. He does not deserve to have such a loyal wife and he does not deserve to have his sons. He has not earned it.
But he has won. He has won the lottery of marriage and parenthood. He has won the loyalty of his wife and in his son David, he has won solid gold devotion.
Without putting forth any effort, Willy has won the golden fleece of life.
First, let’s talk about the pace of the movie. It is very slow. Some scenes just show you land and have music playing. There is no action. It is all dialogs. That is fine. You will find just from the movements and facial expression, of the characters, that you see an entire story, just for them.
Some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard, is said when the older people are just chatting back and forth. Then there is the timing of it all. It is not an easy thing, to have everything just work out and fit perfectly. With just the right amount of pause before the next words are spoken. But, ever actor in this movie does it with ease. I just laughed and laughed. I think this would be considered a black comedy.
Now let us discuss the story. Well, it is firstly about a man who is rather old. He had a time when he felt very important. He had friends and knew many of the people around him. He was busy and lived the way he wished. Now, he is older. Years and years have went by. He has started to feel empty and as if there is no point. He is searching. Searching not for money or fame. He is searching for a new purpose. He just wants to feel needed again.
So, he gets something saying he has won $1,000,000. All he has to do is pick it up. He starts walking. He has no drivers’ license. His son stops him and brings him home. But, the old man will not stop. He continues to walk, trying to get to his destination and receive his money.
His son realizes that he will not stop and aggress to drive him there. So, they set out. Those who know they man are telling him how stupid it is and that it is fake. Including his son. Then, people start to believe it and some ask for amounts of money. The man starts to feel important again. He is getting the attention that he has not gotten for a long time. There are many things that happen. I really do not want to give anything away.
You do get a sense that the man, though he may not have shown it, does care very much about people. He cares about them and wants nothing more than to help them out.
This movie is really all about the journey, the journey for one man, a purpose, a reason to get up and something to look forward to. I thought of my grandfather when I watched this. It made me very happy. This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
Another thing, remember how I said that there are parts that just show you land and play music? Well, the movie is in black and white. But, somehow, I just got a feeling that I was seeing more than I ever would if it were in color. I thought of a way to explain it. So I think. Imagine you know a man. Say you know him for 40 years. The man moves far away. Now, you’ve been talking to the man for decades and know everything about him. One day though, in your house you find a box. The box is full of books. They turn out to be diaries that the man has kept since he was a young kid. You start to read them. Though you have known, seen and interacted with the man for decades, you feel that you learn more from and about him, just from reading his journals. Though you are reading black writing, on white paper, what you read, gives you visions and thoughts that are more colorful and informative than any of the time you could ever spend with the man. You learn so much just from the mans life, written in black, on white. That is what I thought of, to explain the way this movie made me feel. So, there it is.
Top reviews from other countries
La considero una genialidad de película.
One of the first things to go when a civilisation crumbles is civitas (civility). The people in this film, by and large, are not civil. They are coarse, rude, argumentative and belligerent (sometimes). They are also stupefied by beer, television, crassness and fecklessness. They have little of value to say to one another and wouldn't know how to say it if they did. These comments are not meant to ridicule them but to condemn the conditions in which they are expected to live. This is what inequality will do to any society, the American one included. It creates needless suffering and desperation of the kind we see here. As such, it is not always easy to watch. Although nominally a dark and sardonic comedy in the Coen Brothers mode of storytelling, it is also profoundly depressing. Suitably filmed in stark black and white, it takes us on a journey through the American heartland (the Midwest). Nebraska, as re-told in this modern fairy tale, is the golden pot at the end of the rainbow, a place where winners of a lottery can pick up their million dollars. Or so it seems to the gullible, or those, like Woody Grant, the elderly father in this story, who are suffering from dementia.
Woody lives in Billings, Montana with his wife Kate. They have two grown sons, David and Ross. David works as a salesman in a stereo equipment store in town. Ross, the elder son, is a local TV news reader. Both sons are somewhat estranged from the family, especially from their selfish father, but David has the bigger heart of the two and is thus the more forgiving of past parental transgressions.
Woody keeps walking out the front door of the house. He's like a dog that gets loose from its chain. He wanders through the town half lucidly, not really sure of why he's there or where he's going. His actual quixotic quest is to get to Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, to collect his million dollars. He thinks he'll walk there, a journey of almost a thousand miles.
David gets in the car to fetch his father. Woody is at the police station, picked up by the local cops while walking along a dangerous section of the highway. This has happened before, Woody escaping and David going after him. Ross thinks Dad should just be locked away in a rest home, the polite term nowadays for penitentiaries for the elderly. But David will not allow it. Kate, the mother, seems curiously non-committal, so it's hard to gauge what she might want.
Rational explanations will not work with Woody. He believes he has won the prize and will go to Nebraska to collect it. At wit's end, David finally agrees to drive him there. Thus the story becomes a buddy and road flick, father and son bonding during their long journey, one that will produce strange encounters and happenings along the way, especially with relatives of theirs and townsfolk in the town of Hawthorne, the place where Woody grew up and the family lived for a time when the boys were much younger.
Word spreads among the locals that Woody has won his million. It's bogus as David keeps trying to tell them but nobody believes him. They think Woody has won the jackpot for real. This brings out the worst in them — jealousy, spite, envy, aggression. Woody owes some of them past debts and now they want to collect. David, a quiet and gentle person, gets caught in the middle more than once in trying to defend his father. Most of the film is a comedy of drunken errors, as people aren't lucid enough to know what they are saying to one another. This is the sardonic humour.
But a great sadness and weariness hangs over the proceedings as the wild goose chase takes us from one ugly, decaying town to the next on the endless highway to nowhere. Bad food, seedy bars, cheap motels — you can picture it. And the people.
David is a loving being. Despite everything, he is loyal to his father and treats him with dignity, even if the father is long past knowing what dignity is. They get to Lincoln and Woody learns the truth regarding his mission. On the way back to Montana he wears a baseball cap given to him by the company in Lincoln. 'Prize Winner' is what it says. Woody wears it, oblivious to the pathos and irony it announces.
Because of David's love the story is redemptive in the end. "All I ever had was Redemption Song" Bob Marley once plaintively sang to us. It is this too that David sings from his heart as they drive home together, even if Woody can no longer hear the music.