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DVD : Grand Tour - Disaster in TimeIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Emilia Crow, Jim Haynie, Marilyn Lightstone directed by: David Twohy  Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 0013131205596 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 19, 2002 Running Time: 99 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: May 09, 1992 Sales Rank: 44227 MPN: D12055D Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Just enjoy the rideI like time travel stories, alot. This story has a great premise and is generally well executed. There are spots where it drags, but you can see the need to set up the next sequence requires slow spots -- as with any story, it can't all be action and excitement to be compelling and believable, right? So there are a few spots where the dialogue is stilted, but overall it is a quiet little tale told very well. Rating: - Vintage SeasonA made for television science fiction time-travel film that does a good job bringing C.L. Moore's classic story Vintage Season to the screen. A much better job here than with her story The Last Mimzy. A smaller budget has a way of making the director work harder to do the film but often makes for a better movie, as in this case. I wonder what the film would have been with a bigger budget with a theatrical release. If you like time travel films this is a good one. Find a copy of the ... Read More Rating: - 3 and a half starts for First Twohy filmBy now David Twohy should be a trademark. A kind of Spielberg for B movies. But it isn't. Not yet at least. This man has been directing consistently good genre films for some years now ("The Arrival", "Pitch Black", "Below", "Chronicles of Riddick") so when I found that its first one was still there unwatched, I immediately took to find the piece and give it a go. What a nice story! Full of logical holes if you have mastered your Doc Brown technique, but what a nice tale nevertheless! ... Read More Rating:  - Disaster in filmmakingHorrible acting, a swiss cheese plot (including the laughable final scene), and childish special effects make this a sci-fi snoozer. Rating: - Better than Expectations.It would have been 5-stars if they would not have over-stretch the uneventful first-half. The production is modest, but the story is very good. And the cast do a good job. A reviewer in this page called it "Like A long Twilight Zone Episode", and that just about sums it up. Browse for similar items by category:
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