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Widescreen Editions This is Spinal Tap DSS WS Criterion #238 Rare CAV LaserDisc Comedy

This is Spinal Tap DSS WS Criterion #238 Rare CAV LaserDisc Comedy

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This Is Spinal Tap

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1390L )
(1.75:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Two full second-audio-track Commentaries by Chris Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Producer Kame Murphy, and Ed
Over One Hour of Deleted Scenes
Twenty-minute Demo Reel "Spinal Tap: The Final Tour"
"Heavy Metal Memories" Ad
"Hell Hole" Video
Treatment
Screenplay

This Is Spinal Tap
1984 - 82 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively--three clueless, self-absorbed men who form the nucleus of Spinal Tap, aging purveyors of overwrought songs with titles such as "Big Bottom," "Smell the Glove," and "Sex Farm." Shot in faux cinema verit

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The "group" started as an informal skiffle band, eventually maturing into an R&B act called the Thamesmen (their hit was "Gimme Some Money"). After going through a psychedelic period with "Listen to the Flower People", the band mutated into Spinal Tap, a hard rock outfit responsible for such albums as "Intravenous DeMilo", "The Sun Never Sweats", and "Bent for the Rent". This Is Spinal Tap finds them in the midst of their first American tour in years as they support their new LP "Smell the Glove", with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who specializes in TV commercials, on hand to document the occasion. Just about anything that can go wrong does; shows get canceled, stage props go wrong, wireless guitar pickups start broadcasting air-traffic reports, no one shows up for in-store appearances, David's girlfriend tries to take over the band, they wind up billed second to a puppet show at an amusement park, and the group teeters on the verge of breakup. After the film's initial release, McKean, Guest, and Shearer did a short club tour as Spinal Tap; the "band" reunited in 1992 for a new album, "Break Like the Wind", followed by a full-fledged tour and TV special, The Return Of Spinal Tap. --- Mark Deming

If there has ever been a funnier and truer film about rock music than This Is Spinal Tap, no one has had the courage to show it in public. Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary chronicle of the misadventures of a group of intellectually challenged British rock musicians touring the U.S. manages to laugh at and with its protagonists at the same time. While the unending cluelessness of Spinal Tap's core members, David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), is a marvel to behold (especially the scene in which Nigel is baffled by the miniature pumpernickel on the deli tray), the leading characters also exude a goofy charm. As we watch their career slowly collapse around them, it's difficult not to feel a certain sympathy while laughing at their travails (it helps that they've seen enough of this coming to be more annoyed than despairing about their careers). Guest, McKean, and Shearer, who improvised most of the film's material, all did time in rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s, and it seems as if they didn't forget a thing; no one who has ever been in a band, no matter how lowly, will fail to recognize the arguments at rehearsal, the on-stage screwups, the frustration of getting lost en route to a show, the thrill of hearing yourself on the radio, the chore of playing for an audience that doesn't care, and the excitement of a show that goes over. While This Is Spinal Tap takes deadly (and wildly funny) aim at the absurdities of the music business and the pompous excesses of the Heavy Metal scene, it's also made by people who understand the kick of a good rock show (for both performer and audience), and much of the humor comes from the fact that this seemingly absurd tale is not far at all from the truth. --- Mark Deming

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Cast for This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins
Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel
Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls
Tony Hendra - Ian Faith
R.J. Parnell - Mick Shrimpton
David Kaff - Viv Savage
Bruce "Bruno" Kirby, Jr. - Tommy Pischedda
June Chadwick - Jeanine Pettibone
Fran Drescher - Bobbi Flekman
Joyce Hyser - Belinda
Vicki Blue - Cindy
Paul Benedict - Tucker "Smithy" Brown
Patrick Macnee - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg
Billy Crystal - Morty the Mime
Fred Willard - Lt. Hookstratten
Ed Begley, Jr. - John "Stumpy" Pepys
Howard Hesseman - Terry Ladd
Robert Bauer - Moke
Julie Payne - Mime Waitress
Gloria Gifford Miss - Airport Security Officer
Robin Menken - Angelo's Associate
George McDaniel - Southern Rock Promoter
Wonderful Smith - Janitor
Brinke Stevens - Girlfriend (uncredited)
J.J. Barry - Rack Jobber
Daniel Rodgers - Little Druid
Fred Asparagus - Joe "Mama" Besser
Paul Schaffer - Artie Fufkin
Sandy Helberg - Angelo DiMentibello
Jean Cromie - Ethereal Fan
Lara Cody - Fame Groupy
Anjelica Huston - Polly Deutsch
Archie Hahn - Room Service Guy
Patrick Maher - New York M.C.
Charles Levin - Disc & Dat Manager
Zane Buzby - Rolling Stone Reporter
Dana Carvey - Mime Waitresses
Danny Kortchmar - Ronnie Pudding
Andrew J. Lederer - Student Promoter
Russ Kunkel - Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs

Crew for This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner - Director / Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Karen Murphy - Producer
Christopher Guest - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Michael McKean - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Harry Shearer - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Peter Smokler - Cinematographer
Kent Beyda - Editor
Robert Leighton - Editor
Kim Secrist - Editor
Bryan Jones - Production Designer
Renee Johnston - Costume Designer
Robert Eber - Sound/Sound Designer

Feature Details

Title: This Is Spinal Tap
Feature Release Date: 1984
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 82 Minutes
Chapters: 77
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.75:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

IMDB Info...

Technical Details

LD Release Date: 7 Dec 1994
Catalog Number: CC1390L
UPC: 715515005494
ISBN: 1559405260
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1390L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Mega-Rare Dolby Surround Sound, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket with edge and shelf-wear

Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest in...

This Is Spinal Tap

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1390L )
(1.75:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Two full second-audio-track Commentaries by Chris Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Producer Kame Murphy, and Ed
Over One Hour of Deleted Scenes
Twenty-minute Demo Reel "Spinal Tap: The Final Tour"
"Heavy Metal Memories" Ad
"Hell Hole" Video
Treatment
Screenplay

This Is Spinal Tap
1984 - 82 min. - Color
Genre: Comedy
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively--three clueless, self-absorbed men who form the nucleus of Spinal Tap, aging purveyors of overwrought songs with titles such as "Big Bottom," "Smell the Glove," and "Sex Farm." Shot in faux cinema verit

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The "group" started as an informal skiffle band, eventually maturing into an R&B act called the Thamesmen (their hit was "Gimme Some Money"). After going through a psychedelic period with "Listen to the Flower People", the band mutated into Spinal Tap, a hard rock outfit responsible for such albums as "Intravenous DeMilo", "The Sun Never Sweats", and "Bent for the Rent". This Is Spinal Tap finds them in the midst of their first American tour in years as they support their new LP "Smell the Glove", with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who specializes in TV commercials, on hand to document the occasion. Just about anything that can go wrong does; shows get canceled, stage props go wrong, wireless guitar pickups start broadcasting air-traffic reports, no one shows up for in-store appearances, David's girlfriend tries to take over the band, they wind up billed second to a puppet show at an amusement park, and the group teeters on the verge of breakup. After the film's initial release, McKean, Guest, and Shearer did a short club tour as Spinal Tap; the "band" reunited in 1992 for a new album, "Break Like the Wind", followed by a full-fledged tour and TV special, The Return Of Spinal Tap. --- Mark Deming

If there has ever been a funnier and truer film about rock music than This Is Spinal Tap, no one has had the courage to show it in public. Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary chronicle of the misadventures of a group of intellectually challenged British rock musicians touring the U.S. manages to laugh at and with its protagonists at the same time. While the unending cluelessness of Spinal Tap's core members, David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), is a marvel to behold (especially the scene in which Nigel is baffled by the miniature pumpernickel on the deli tray), the leading characters also exude a goofy charm. As we watch their career slowly collapse around them, it's difficult not to feel a certain sympathy while laughing at their travails (it helps that they've seen enough of this coming to be more annoyed than despairing about their careers). Guest, McKean, and Shearer, who improvised most of the film's material, all did time in rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s, and it seems as if they didn't forget a thing; no one who has ever been in a band, no matter how lowly, will fail to recognize the arguments at rehearsal, the on-stage screwups, the frustration of getting lost en route to a show, the thrill of hearing yourself on the radio, the chore of playing for an audience that doesn't care, and the excitement of a show that goes over. While This Is Spinal Tap takes deadly (and wildly funny) aim at the absurdities of the music business and the pompous excesses of the Heavy Metal scene, it's also made by people who understand the kick of a good rock show (for both performer and audience), and much of the humor comes from the fact that this seemingly absurd tale is not far at all from the truth. --- Mark Deming

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Cast for This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins
Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel
Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls
Tony Hendra - Ian Faith
R.J. Parnell - Mick Shrimpton
David Kaff - Viv Savage
Bruce "Bruno" Kirby, Jr. - Tommy Pischedda
June Chadwick - Jeanine Pettibone
Fran Drescher - Bobbi Flekman
Joyce Hyser - Belinda
Vicki Blue - Cindy
Paul Benedict - Tucker "Smithy" Brown
Patrick Macnee - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg
Billy Crystal - Morty the Mime
Fred Willard - Lt. Hookstratten
Ed Begley, Jr. - John "Stumpy" Pepys
Howard Hesseman - Terry Ladd
Robert Bauer - Moke
Julie Payne - Mime Waitress
Gloria Gifford Miss - Airport Security Officer
Robin Menken - Angelo's Associate
George McDaniel - Southern Rock Promoter
Wonderful Smith - Janitor
Brinke Stevens - Girlfriend (uncredited)
J.J. Barry - Rack Jobber
Daniel Rodgers - Little Druid
Fred Asparagus - Joe "Mama" Besser
Paul Schaffer - Artie Fufkin
Sandy Helberg - Angelo DiMentibello
Jean Cromie - Ethereal Fan
Lara Cody - Fame Groupy
Anjelica Huston - Polly Deutsch
Archie Hahn - Room Service Guy
Patrick Maher - New York M.C.
Charles Levin - Disc & Dat Manager
Zane Buzby - Rolling Stone Reporter
Dana Carvey - Mime Waitresses
Danny Kortchmar - Ronnie Pudding
Andrew J. Lederer - Student Promoter
Russ Kunkel - Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs

Crew for This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner - Director / Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Karen Murphy - Producer
Christopher Guest - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Michael McKean - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter
Harry Shearer - Screenwriter / Composer (Music Score)
Peter Smokler - Cinematographer
Kent Beyda - Editor
Robert Leighton - Editor
Kim Secrist - Editor
Bryan Jones - Production Designer
Renee Johnston - Costume Designer
Robert Eber - Sound/Sound Designer

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