The Big Kahuna (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 30, 2017
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin Spacey, Peter Facinelli & Danny DeVito | |
Directed by | John Swanbeck | |
Edited by | Peggy Davis | |
Screenwriting by | Roger Rueff | |
Composition by | Christopher Young | |
Produced by | Elie Samaha, Kevin Spacey & Andrew Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Anastas Michos |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's smart, funny and insightful and it's quite easy to see what attracted the stars to it.
Film.com
...There's something fresh here....Unexpectedly touching...
Box Office
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Sharp-edged, perfectly timed, funny and thoughtful.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: C --
You get the feeling that The Big Kahuna would be great in-the-round theater, its ambiguous machinations benefiting from feeding off of a live audience. As filmed, however, it's just three characters waiting for a story.
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Entertainment Today
...DeVito has moments of mesmerizing calm....Spacey is as savagely dyspeptic as he was in AMERICAN BEAUTY...
Los Angeles Times
Spacey surfs the hot air of the dialogue with grace.
Sight and Sound
Sometimes profanely funny, sometimes intensely dramatic, The Big Kahuna is a richly amusing and provocatively insightful film that builds to a profoundly powerful cumulative impact.
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The Moving Picture Show
Product Description:
First-time feature director John Swanbeck teams up with producer-actor Kevin Spacey for this big screen adaptation of Roger Rueff's play HOSPITALITY SUITE. The story concerns three lubricant salesmen who have gathered in a Witchita, Kansas hotel room in order to throw a cocktail party for prospective buyers. They are Larry (Spacey), a harsh, cocky veteran; his partner Phil (Danny DeVito), a passive recovering alcoholic; and Bob (Peter Facinelli), a naïve new colleague whose ethics drive Larry into fits of disbelief. The trio waits for the night's arrivals--most specifically, "The Big Kahuna," a man so wealthy that he has the ability to single-handedly revive Larry and Phil's struggling careers. After the party, Larry and Phil are dumbfounded when they discover that Bob actually spoke to him, only their conversation consisted solely of religious dialogue. Larry sends Bob in search of "The Big Kahuna" with the order that he discuss business if he wants to remain employed. The subsequent hours provide each individual with the chance to exorcise his inner demons once and for all. Limited in its usage of locations, Rueff's big-screen adaptation of his play contains inspired performances from Spacey, DeVito, and Facinelli.