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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Noah Baumbach |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Lionsgate/Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 057373145500 |
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Customer Reviews of Highball
Is it worth $60.00? NO! Is is a great movie? OH, YEAH! If you're a fan of subtle humor, definitely see this movie. The plot is pretty basic, its about a newlywed couple and the parties they though, the the dialouge makes the film.
The reason why the film isn't worth $60.00 is because the lighting and the editing are on a student film level. The movie was made on a VERY low budget, and it shows. But the script makes the viewer forgive the look of the film.
To be fair, let me make it VERY clear that the director is a pro, and if you watch his previous films you see that he makes great looking films.
Unfortunatly, he had a very small budget for this film.
If you're into suble humor, dialouge films, or if you have a offbeat taste for film, don't miss out on Highball!!
subpar versus Kicking & Screaming and Mr. Jealousy
Perhaps predictably, this movie suffers from not having the same kind of time and money invested in its production compared to Kicking & Screaming and Mr. Jealousy. Those two films had a uniquely beautiful combination of literate dialogue and humorous ensemble interaction. While Highball had many of the same actors from the first two movies, the overall dialogue and themes were totally different. The first two movies had irreverence mixed with the sympathy of nostalgia and the difficult emotional transition to adulthood. Highball had no direction at all.
While I no longer remember all the details of Highball, I felt that the characters were poorly defined and the plot less meaningful than Mr. Jealousy and Kicking & Screaming. The movie seemed incomplete and hastily put together.
If you like literate, witty ensemble comedies, you should definitely see Kicking and Screaming, then Mr. Jealousy, then the Whit Stillman trilogy (which also features Chris Eigeman): Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco. All 5 of those being among my favorites.
Quirky, crazy comedy
Interesting comedy told through the course of three parties in one apartment: a birthday party, a Halloween party, and a New Year's Eve party. Basically centered around the couple who's apartment it is who first are together (birthday), break-up (Halloween), and then are married (New Year's) and all their weird and strange friends they join together for each occasion. For anyone who can remember times like these or are going through times like these, there are plenty of moments to laugh at. Like the boring awkward birthday party magician?! Or the hideously costumed drunk hostess at Halloween?! Or a friend coming out on New Years Eve?! It's all there.....strangely and sadly so. You will recognize so man actors in this I don't know how the director got them all for this nothing of a movie but he did, from Stolz to Sheedy to Bogdanovich and more. You'll have fun guessing who's who, but there's plenty of who's not in the film too. Quirky, strange, but enjoyable.