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92 in the Shade

Peter Fonda (Actor), Warren Oates (Actor), Thomas McGuane (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
IMDb6.0/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format Anamorphic, Widescreen, Dolby, NTSC
Contributor Peter Fonda, Burgess Meredith, Thomas McGuane, Margot Kidder, Warren Oates
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 33 minutes

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Newly re-mastered in HD! Set in Key West, Florida, Peter Fonda (Killer Force, Ulee s Gold) plays Tom Skelton, a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old hometown. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, least of all rival guides Nichol Dance and Carter (Warren Oates, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and Harry Dean Stanton, Alien). Faced with financial disaster and widespread hostility, he turns to his wealthy grandfather Goldsboro (Burgess Meredith, Rocky) for help. Taking time off from his lovemaking sessions with sexy secretary Bella (Sylvia Miles, Midnight Cowboy), his grandfather pumps some money into Tom's operation, and our hero makes his peace with Carter. A climactic fight with Nichol puts an end to that problem, while Tom's romantic relationship with Miranda (Margot Kidder, Superman) helps him sort out his priorities. Director/writer Thomas McGuane (Tom Horn) adapted the script from his own novel. The stellar cast also includes Elizabeth Ashley (Coma), William Hickey (Prizzi s Honor) and Joe Spinell (Maniac).

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35385814
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Thomas McGuane
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Anamorphic, Widescreen, Dolby, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 33 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Kl Studio Classics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DN252WM
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 60 ratings

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3.7 out of 5 stars
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The Deuce
5.0 out of 5 stars It gets very, very hot in Key West
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2017
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Though Peter Fonda is never a draw into a film for me (I'm more of a Henry man, myself), this of course has Warren Oates in it; one of the crown jewels of 70's-era American Cinema. And what? Harry Dean Stanton also? That's right and wait until you see the electricity between him and Elizabeth Ashley. Almost made me forget Margot Kidder was in the film.

Special mention must be made of Burgess Meredith in the best role I can remember seeing him in since "Day of the Locust", here playing Fonda's Grandpappy with a penchant for Sylvia Miles. That's right! I said Sylvia Miles! The next thing I'll be telling me is that Joe Spinell is in this already talent-packed movie. He is? He is! There, I told me so.

We can thank Scorpion Releasing for remastering this latest (2015 edition of the 1975 movie) DVD, and my hat goes off to Amazon for providing access to these less-than-mainstream film classics to be made available to the general public.
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RichardS
2.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre Edits
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014
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This is NOT a great film. However, it has it's moments and you can take it or leave it like a lot of art. However, I'd like the art to be left alone in its original form, instead of re-edited, as was done here. The sound quality, as another reviewer commented, is very poor, but the worse sin is that this cuts scenes and uses an alternative ending.

Cut scenes include lechy Burgess Meredith groping his assistant in a line lifted directly from the novel: "The french have a word for it, but I call it pussy". Also uses an ending different from the one I saw originally. Who chooses to make these edits?

This definitively answers the question of why we'd like to own our media instead of having it be in the cloud -- because we want the movie to stay the same as time passes, not change subject to the whim of the director or producer or whoever decides to re-edit a film for the cloud release.
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jet
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2017
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Liked the movie, except for the ending which kind of left me hanging.
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mike everly
3.0 out of 5 stars Low budget movie
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023
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It was just OK, but I knew this before I watched it. I'm a frequent traveler to Key West, so it caught my interest. Good scenic shots of the area.
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Reflection
5.0 out of 5 stars A Faithful Movie Adaption.
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2005
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...Of McGuane's novels, "92 in the Shade" is perhaps my favorite. His movie adaption of this work is true to the quirky characters developed in his novel, and recreates the unique ambiance of the Florida Keys/Key West experience, and the sense of his character's fated participation in a script set in a cosmic "play" of Life that was also such a pleasurable part of the book.

Cast selections were fitting...and this was one movie experience that left me with the same feeling as the prose, although the paths taken in the telling were quite different. I feel that McGuane's direction was essential to this success and the capturing of the subtle nuances of this story on film.

An interesting independant film. McGuane's fans should find it true to the tale...
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CRC
1.0 out of 5 stars It may be 92 in the shade, but it's much cooler in the light.
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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Not bad as for following the book, but the writer did take a large role in the film, so I'd not have expected this to be out in left field somewhere. McGuane can be a little too deep with his analogies and prose for his own good, think "trying too hard?". The book is actually a good read, but it might take a few times through it to enjoy it properly. Oates is great as the antagonist, I've never been fond (no pun intended) of Peter Fonda or Margot Kidder and I found them both wooden and poor as actors in this, again i think they were trying to embody that 70's Key West mindset but it just didn't come off too well. The one star is mostly due to the quality of the video. I've watched school projects that had better presentation values than this did. A circa 70's film won't be cutting edge video quality of course, but for god's sake, clean up the audio on this or don't bother offering it for sale, it was nigh impossible to catch a lot, (like most), of the dialogue. Calling it a waste of time would be a little hard, but buyer do beware. It won't be an easy viewing.
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Buddy1492
2.0 out of 5 stars It's so bad that it's almost worth watching
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021
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It's not the worst movie I've ever seen but it's probably the stupidest. Maybe the poor acting can be excused because they are working with such a lame story and script. Although Burgess Meredith is entertaining, the movie fails to be funny, if that is what it's trying to do. It has scenes unconnected to the plot such as one in a jail and another in what seems to be a blimp warehouse. So after all this it's no surprise that the ending is laughably bad. They literally just quit.
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xibalbay
1.0 out of 5 stars Leider ....
Reviewed in Germany on August 30, 2023
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... steht nirgendwo in der Produktbeschreibung, dass die DVD mit amerikanischen Regionalcode kommt, also in Deutschland nicht abgespielt werden kann. Den Film an sich habe ich vor Urzeiten mal im TV gesehen, und fand ihn und besonders den Cast interessant (außer Fonda. Niemand außer Bridget ist wirklich ein Schauspieler in dieser Familie).
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Walter Poeschl
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2017
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Quick and without any complication!
Itam as discribed
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