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Perennial Oscar(r) nominee Judi Dench shakes off the dust of period pieces to play a sassy widow looking to recapture a little of the excitement of her youth: she was the star saxophone player of a World War II-era all-girl dance band. Yanking her instrument from mothballs, she starts blowing the old standards as a street musician, much to the horror of her cultured children (they prefer symphonies to swing classics), and then hatches a plan to track down her band mates for a gala reunion at her granddaughter's school dance. The script carries little suspense and few surprises, but the cast is a delight. Ian Holm costars as the band's womanizing drummer (in a dress and a platinum blonde wig), a rascally old rogue who seduced almost every member during their brief wartime run and married half of them in the intervening years. Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) is their trombonist, a hard-drinking American widow living it up in a Scottish castle; jazz great Cleo Laine is a trumpeter turned torch singer; and Leslie Caron cameos as their brassy bass player. Joan Sims (a fixture of the Carry On movies), Billie Whitelaw (Quills), and June Whitfield (the mother on Absolutely Fabulous) are among the great British character actors who join the fun. The old broads bring sass to the sentimentality in this fluffy, feel-good, made-for-cable comedy, insisting there is not only life after 60, but that it swings sweetly if only you let it. --Sean Axmaker
CATEGORY: DVD
DIRECTOR: Gillies MacKinnon
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: 26 August, 2000
MANUFACTURER: Hbo Home Video
MPAA RATING: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
FEATURES: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
TYPE: Adult Situations, Affectionate, Bittersweet, Color, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Comedy Video, Death of a Spouse, Drama, English, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Golden Years, Humorous, Made for TV, Movie, Musical Drama, Musician's Life, Nostalgic, Poignant
MEDIA: DVD
MPN: D91711D
# OF MEDIA: 1
UPC: 026359171123

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Customer Reviews of The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Judi Is The Blonde Bombshell
What a delightful, fun, family movie. It spans the generations with a little something for everyone. There is some adult content that wouldn't be suitable for young children. It would be great fun for a grandmother and teenage grandaughter to see together, since grandchildren are often more in tune with their grandparents than are the offspring themselves. Suffice to say that Judi Dench uses her many talents to bring the bombshell to life!


Nostalgia
This is a fairly entertaining HBO film, worthy especially because of Judi Dench, who gives yet another first class performance. But the script is extraordinarily superficial, and its moral overtone is tedious: all that matters in life is to be young and have sex. The Christian in the film is considered a loony. While the Olympia Dukakis character, a many times married drunk, is just a heck of a lot of fun. And so on. The flashbacks to the 1940s are not at all persuasive, especially the makeup. And the sound that tiny band produces is made in fact by a much larger group. The actors do pretty well at pretending to be musicians, with the notable exception of Leslie Caron. Cleo Laine's presence in the film is gratuitous, and the camera should have avoided closeups. In short, here is a happy, silly, predictable, narcissistic flick worthy of HBO. Still, Judi Dench is something to behold.


Great coming of Third Age tale
What do you do after your husband of many years dies? Elizabeth (Dench) went to the library twice a week, babysat her granddaughter and that was life enough--til she heard a street busker and took her clandestine saxophone practice to the streets. <
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>Her grand-daughter encourages Elizabeth to re-form her old swing band, "The Blonde Bombshells" for her school dance. That takes some effort--a couple are dead, one's crazy, one's joined the Salvation Army... <
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>But nothing can stop Elizabeth when she's set her mind to something. The resulting story is witty, winning and well worth owning. This film would make a great gift for any woman or man who's entering the third age and looking for some inspiration.

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