·
Actor:
Tom Hanks |
Bruce Dern |
Carrie Fisher |
Corey Feldman |
Shelley Long ·
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 ·
Audience Rating:
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) ·
Binding: DVD ·
Creator (
Role: Writer): Dan Aykroyd | (
Role: Writer): Alan Zweibel | (
Role: Writer): Dana Olsen | (
Role: Writer): David Giler | (
Role: Writer): Jack Webb ·
Director:
Joe Dante |
Richard Benjamin |
Tom Mankiewicz ·
EAN: 0025193295620 ·
Format: Color | Dolby | Dubbed | DVD-Video | Subtitled | Widescreen | NTSC ·
Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment ·
Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment ·
MPN: 61032956 ·
Number Of Discs: 2 ·
Number Of Items: 2 ·
Package Quantity: 1 ·
Part Number: 61032956 ·
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen ·
Product Group: DVD ·
Product Type Name: ABIS_DVD ·
Publisher:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment ·
Region Code: 1 ·
Release Date: 2007-02-13 ·
Running Time (
Units: minutes): 299 ·
SKU: 25193295620 ·
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment ·
UPC: 025193295620
» The line between parody and tribute can be hard to draw, but any marginally hip baby boomer who ever watched Jack Webb's straight-laced Detective Joe Friday caught a glimmer of the comedic vein waiting to be mined beneath
Dragnet's gritty Los Angeles streets. In 1987 moviegoers had yet to be crushed under the weight of the 1990s TV remake mania, and
Dragnet comes off as fresh and funny. Dan Aykroyd plays Joe Friday, the straight-arrow nephew of Webb's iconic cop. This part was made for him (in fact, he's given top writing credit), and under his steely exterior you can tell he's having a ball delivering those rapid-fire recitations of regulations and deadpan expressions of moral outrage. Tom Hanks plays Pep Streebek, the laissez-faire narco agent who is Friday's new partner. Their assignment: bust the Pagans, a wild-and-woolly gang of dope fiends, deadbeats, and beatniks behind a bewildering array of bizarre robberies. Hilarity ensues. Friday and Streebek outfox a corrupt televangelist (Christopher Plummer), bicker over chili dogs and cigarettes, alternately revile and fawn over a porn millionaire (Dabney Coleman), wrestle a 30-foot-long anaconda, and rescue the virgin Connie Swail--the only girl capable of stealing Friday's heart.
--Grant Balfour