Victor Victoria PG
Out-of-work singer Julie Andrews conspires with Robert Preston to pose as a female impersonator in order to get work on the Paris cabaret circuit.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julie Andrews, James Garner & Robert Preston | |
Performer: | Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, John Rhys-Davies & Peter Arne | |
Directed by | Blake Edwards | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
Music by | Henry Mancini | |
Screenplay by | Blake Edwards | |
Produced by | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Bush |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1982 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Henry Mancini & Leslie Bricusse
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Gender-bending musical farce; sexual content, profanity.
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Common Sense Media
Victor Victoria is offbeat for sure -- but it is also infectiously effervescent, a well-crafted film revealing a light heart and a light touch.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Rating: 3/4 --
Not only a funny movie, but, unexpectedly, a warm and friendly one.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A musical boudoir farce, captivating at times, infuriating at others.
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TV Guide
...VICTOR/VICTORIA is a sparkling, ultra-sophisticated entertainment....This is undoubtedly Andrews' most rewarding role in years...
Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Robert Preston is marvelous.
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Creative Loafing
Victor Victoria is a marvelous mixture of genders, a blatant attack on sexual attitudes that is both challenging and hilarious.
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Associated Press
Description by OLDIES.com:
A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! You've also got laughs when Julie Andrews plays Victor and Victoria in this clever delight, from filmmaker Blake Edwards, boasting a marvelous Academy Award-winning score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse.
Robert Preston plays a cabaret performer who devises the gender-bender stage act. Farcically complicating matters are James Garner as a mobster suspecting Victor is a Victoria and Lesley Ann Warren as a short-fused floozy.
Of this movie's seven Oscar nominations, three went to Golden Globe Winner Andrews (Actress), National Board of Review Award winner Preston (Supporting Actor) and Warren (Supporting Actress).
Robert Preston plays a cabaret performer who devises the gender-bender stage act. Farcically complicating matters are James Garner as a mobster suspecting Victor is a Victoria and Lesley Ann Warren as a short-fused floozy.
Of this movie's seven Oscar nominations, three went to Golden Globe Winner Andrews (Actress), National Board of Review Award winner Preston (Supporting Actor) and Warren (Supporting Actress).
Product Description:
Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as Polish female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world. Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite. As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters. A director who often shows a willingness to let the seams in his work show for comic effect, Edwards has opted for stylish smoothness here while opening himself to questions of gender that his earlier films had anxiously mocked. Robert Preston steals the film as Victoria's graceful Svengali.
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