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The Bargain Nexus - Harvey
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway
Directed By: Henry Koster
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025192033636
Format: Black & White
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-02-06
Running Time: 105
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1950-10-13
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gotta Love Jimmy
Comment: Oh wow! I have been looking for this DVD for a long time. I LOVE this movie. Jimmy at his best. It is an old movie but still a great one. You will not regret watching it. So Funny!!!
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Summary: Harvey
Comment: One comment, I'm not sure Harvey was imaginary, I know several people who swear they've seen him. Evidently he is a friend to rumpots. Stewart himself said people, usually men, looking a little down on their luck, asked him about Harvey for years!
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Summary: One of the Best!
Comment: Harevey is one of our favorite classics! First, it is Jimmy Stewart, one of the best actors ever! Then it is a great story - who is really crazy - maybe all of us a little. And if we're not, maybe we need to be a little crazy so we don't miss out on the most important things in life! Watch it!
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Summary: Oh Harvey
Comment: I LOVE HARVEY. This is one of my favorite movies ever. I love that it keeps you guessing as to whether Elwood is insane or not until the very end. There are also a lot of good quotes in this movie. My favorite being:
"Years ago my mother used to say to me, "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."
This is a great feel-good movie and James Stewart does a fabulous job as Elwood Dowd. Nobody could do it better.
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Summary: "You can be all smart or all pleasant. I used to be smart... now I'm pleasant."
Comment: It's really nice, upon occasion, to watch a movie that's nice and heartwarming without being sentimental and kitsch. The word used most often in "Harvey" is "pleasant." Pleasant works. And, like most of the characters decide, sometimes choosing to be pleasant is better than choosing to be regular, or choosing to be smart. Lucky for this movie, it's both pleasant and smart.
Now, if you haven't seen this movie yourself, you've probably seen clips of it on other movies, such as "Field of Dreams." But really, seeing this movie would be something you should get around to doing. James Stewart plays the warm small-town friendly neighbor with aplomb, even when in socially awkward situations involving disbelief of his pooka. Everyone else plays the anxious ones... people running around getting into fits because of things they only half understand. But as the story goes on, Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd becomes the calm center of gravity that everyone eventually leans on to take a breath of air and let their imagination go.
What we get is a re-affirmation of imagination and faith, much like the feeling to be gotten from "Miracle on 34th Street." However, "Harvey" can be watched year round! And best of all, it shows how to be a good person beyond simply catering to beliefs, but truly following a smile and an ear for listening. "Seems like it'd be a little dull, you should let her do the talking", Dowd tells the psychologist (!) who confesses his escapist dream to sit under a tree, drink beer, and talk to a woman for two weeks. Dowd is both wise and happy, and the movie makes no point of trying to give him difficulties... it's everyone else's problem if they don't want to believe in 6'3 1/2" rabbits...
--PolarisDiB
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Editorial Reviews:
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James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is, until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisisble six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister, Veta, determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respectable man, begins to plot to keep Elwood's lunacy from interfering.
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