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Torch Song Trilogy (DVD)

Anne Bancroft (Actor), Matthew Broderick (Actor), Paul Bogart (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama/Love & Romance, Drama, Comedy
Format Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Color
Contributor Eddie Castrodad, Charles B. Pierce, Ronald K. Fierstein, Harvey Fierstein, Paul Bogart, Brian Kerwin, Howard Gottfried, Ken Page, Anne Bancroft, Benji Schulman, Axel Vera, Karen Young, Matthew Broderick See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours

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Torch Song Trilogy (DVD)

An on-screen adaptation of the Tony- award-winning play about a Jewish homosexual who, except for a different sexual preference, goes through the same struggles of love, jealousy and self-doubt that affect us all.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 4947
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Paul Bogart
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 4, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Howard Gottfried, Ronald K. Fierstein
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 4.0), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ WarnerBrothers
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001HAGRE
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Harvey Fierstein
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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Good movie, but was better as a play!
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Good movie, but was better as a play!
Plot: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY.I liked it when I first saw the film in 1988 better than I did watching it in 2015. It is definitely a "play" made into a movie. Acting is a bit "BIG," as needs to be on stage, but too much and over the top for the big screen. I still highly recommend the movie. A solid 4.5 stars!Quote: Arnold - "A ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after a ugly person gets at least cab fare." (so VERY true!)Director: Paul BogartWriters: Harvey Fierstein (play), Harvey Fierstein (screenplay)Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey FiersteinPhoto is of the young hot Broderick! (I had forgotten how cute he was!) So 1988 with the hair buddy.
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  • Amanda
    5.0 out of 5 stars Campy Caper
    Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2024
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    If you love camp, you'll love Torch Song. Joan Crawford provides a performance you will not soon forget. She sings, dances, shocks, and astounds in this quirky look at the life of a successful stage performer. When taste and class are not what you want to see, Torch Song is here to give you something different.
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  • Big Momma
    5.0 out of 5 stars This film is a musical starring Joan Crawford.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
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    This is an unusual film because Joan Crawford plays a singer and actress on the stage. It also stars Gig Young and Michael Wilding (the same who married Elizabeth Taylor.)
    Joan Crawford in her younger years was stunning and she is still very attractive here. Talented, brilliant actress, and yet, she has aged. It takes getting used to. The first 10 minutes of the story, the audience is won over when we see her vulnerability. Outwardly, a driven professional actress, inwardly, feeling alone. She portrays this well.
    Highly recommend: 'Chained,' with Clark Gable (her off-again, on-again lover for years) because there is such sizzling chemistry between those two.
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  • M. Hart
    5.0 out of 5 stars "A pretty person who goes after a ugly person gets cab fare"
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2004
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    In 1988, the film version of the Tony Award-winning, landmark play "Torch Song Trilogy", which was written by the outspoken and very witty Harvey Fierstein, was released to theaters. Written originally as three separate one-act plays between 1978 and 1979 ("The International Stud", "Fugue in a Nursery" and "Widows and Children First"), Harvey Fierstein combined them into the more familiar three-act play "Torch Song Trilogy" in 1981 since each one-act play focused on the life of a gay man named Arnold (played by Harvey Fierstein), who is a gay drag-show entertainer. In the first act, Arnold meets a stranger at a bar named Ed (Brian Kerwin). A precarious relationship develops quickly between Ed and Arnold, but Ed also wants to marry a woman named Laurel (Karen Young). In the second act, Arnold meets a young man named Alan (Matthew Broderick) at the club where Arnold performs. A long-term relationship develops between Arnold and Alan until an unexpected tragedy occurs. The third act focuses on Arnold taking care of a teenaged son, David (Eddie Castrodad) that he & Alan had adopted, as well as Arnold's ongoing difficulties with his mother (Anne Bancroft).
    With excellent dialog, engaging personalities and superb acting, "Torch Song Trilogy" is a fantastic film, demonstrating not only the love that exists within gay couples, but also the very real difficulties that many gay men face in their daily lives, including the all-too-often difficulties with family members who cannot accept them for who they are. Harvey Fierstein's unique voice adds a special flare to his drag show performances, as well as to his arguments with his mother. Anne Bancroft's performance is superb and emotional. Matthew Broderick did a wonderful portraying Alan. Interestingly, he had played the teenaged son David when "Torch Song Trilogy" was being performed on stage as a play. Brian Kerwin and Karen Young also portray their roles well. Other significant characters in the film include Bertha Venation (Charles Pierce), Marina Del Rey (Alex Vera), the young Arnold (Benji Schulman) and Murray (Kevin Page). Overall, I rate "Torch Song Trilogy" with 5 out of 5 stars. It's especially great to be able to watch the film on widescreen DVD.
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  • sharon e sohner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
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    If you like plays, this is a good one.
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  • Nuka Shroom Soup
    5.0 out of 5 stars A view of life "back in the day" and today as well.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018
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    Thoroughly ashamed to admit that somehow I never saw the original off-Broadway production, so this was my chance to fill in an important gap.

    This production is priceless; not only does it chronicle gay life back in the 70's and 80's but it tells us (read between the lines) that these issues are as relevant now as they were back then.

    The film also provides a lovely and poignant backward look in time that NY'ers will appreciate.
    This is well before the "bitter nostalgia" of "Jeremiah's Vanishing New York"; all that had vanished lives again.

    The old Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, the discount women's wear store (probably on Orchard St. or thereabouts), Anne Bancroft's delightful "snowbirds" reference ".....we go to Florida, it's what we do" and affordable rent stabilized apartments, but on a darker note gay bashing is revealed and sadly that is still with us.

    If you remember subway seats that were covered in wicker (yes they really were) and have "gaps" in your life that need to be filled put this film on your list of "must watch" movies and if you're young enough to be scratching your head, watch, listen and do a little research.
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  • redblues
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love, tragedy, family, healing and you’ll laugh and cry!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2023
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    This is a wonderful movie. I’m not gay but I understand heartbreak, recovering and growing stronger from loss , they’re universal. And there’s humor in abundance. The main character, Arnold is a strong and quirky. Saw the movie years ago… have a VHS growing old. Having this classic story of growth , loss and recovery…and healing is a must see. I revisit it time to time, stays warm and fresh!
    Can’t find it to stream. Love story in high heels and wigs!
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  • Mark S
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, but was better as a play!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015
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    Plot: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY.

    I liked it when I first saw the film in 1988 better than I did watching it in 2015. It is definitely a "play" made into a movie. Acting is a bit "BIG," as needs to be on stage, but too much and over the top for the big screen. I still highly recommend the movie. A solid 4.5 stars!

    Quote: Arnold - "A ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after a ugly person gets at least cab fare." (so VERY true!)

    Director: Paul Bogart
    Writers: Harvey Fierstein (play), Harvey Fierstein (screenplay)
    Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein

    Photo is of the young hot Broderick! (I had forgotten how cute he was!) So 1988 with the hair buddy.
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    Mark S
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Good movie, but was better as a play!

    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015
    Plot: Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY.

    I liked it when I first saw the film in 1988 better than I did watching it in 2015. It is definitely a "play" made into a movie. Acting is a bit "BIG," as needs to be on stage, but too much and over the top for the big screen. I still highly recommend the movie. A solid 4.5 stars!

    Quote: Arnold - "A ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after a ugly person gets at least cab fare." (so VERY true!)

    Director: Paul Bogart
    Writers: Harvey Fierstein (play), Harvey Fierstein (screenplay)
    Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein

    Photo is of the young hot Broderick! (I had forgotten how cute he was!) So 1988 with the hair buddy.
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  • CARLOS BELTRAN
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente película que no pierde actualidad
    Reviewed in Mexico on January 19, 2024
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    Tenía tiempo buscando el DVD y disfruté mucho volverla a ver. Son de las películas que cada vez que las ves, encuentras algo nuevo.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Torch song trilogy
    Reviewed in Italy on March 10, 2022
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    Peccato non ci sia in commercio la versione anche in italiano! Film bellissimo, bellissimo in lingua originale e per chi lo ha visto in italiano, doppiaggio fedele e magnifico
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  • Andrew Fitzgerald
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not a Gay movie but a slice of history.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2021
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    This is an old movie one of the first in the drag world ,Harvey Feinstein wrote and stared in the stage show and movie he also wrote both. A different look at the world of drag not in a rue Paul's way but the life outside of the quite seedy 1980's new york club scene, he fall's in love only to be betrayed then one night a group of male model enter the club one ( Mathew Broderick) finishes up in the home of the Feinstein character he throws him out the next. Later he returns to the club to apologize love blossoms we are taken through the highs and lows Feinstein's mother trays to understand but doesn't when his father dies it comes to a head. A really good movie of it's time don't look on it as a Gay movie it's not but a slice of new york life in the era.
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  • Graham Vincent
    5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, dated. But timeless.
    Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2020
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    This is a film that was wrought with great difficulty into being out of the writer and star's Broadway (or was it off-Broadway?) stage play of the same name. It has to be Harvey Fierstein's monument, and no gay man should exit this life without having seen it. No spoilers (well, one: alert), but with a superb supporting cast headed by Anne Bancroft as the Jewish mother, and Matthew Broderick and Brian Kerwin (both straight and engaging in the most erotic softcore gay kissing scene that I, certainly, have ever seen in a mainstream feature film), it will not fail to impress. I hope this version has the commentary by Mr Fierstein himself: it starts from the moment the studio's indent comes up at the start and is a hoot from beginning to end). For the tenderhearted. Therefore, keep Kleenex to hand (must be available somewhere on Amazon).
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  • TheStat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Film incroyable
    Reviewed in France on September 4, 2017
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    Je ne partage rien avec l'écrivain de la pièce originale (Harvey Fierstein)*, ni dans la culture, ni dans la nationalité, ni dans ce que la vie lui a livré, mais il a écrit une pièce qui est devenue un film MAGNIFIQUE. Aucun être pensant ne peut se laisser froid ni pendant ni après ce film superb. Anne Bancroft joue un rôle ridiculement difficile, une personne peu logique et sans raison, mais elle aime son fils et elle sait s'expliquer. Elle est frustrante et passionnée à travers les décennies --- un infini plus recherché que son âme dans Le Lauréat. Une perle. (Et elle joue si bien dans Torch Song Trilogy, on oublie que c'est une actrice).
    * qui a, pour des raisons historiques, joué le rôle principal dans le film, sans faire metteur en scene --- et qu'est-ce qu'il nous tire des rires et des pleurs. Et encore des rires.
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