Product Description

After 200 years of immortality a morose vampire named louis decides to tell a young reporter his story a tale that leaves a trail of blood and death through history from the 18th century creole country to modern day san francisco. Special features: subtitles in english french and spanish and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Tom Cruise Brad Pitt Run time: 123 minutes Rating: R Director: Neil Jordan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2000-06-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 123 minutes

Amazon.com essential video
When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
The film version of Anne Rice's immensely popular 1976 novel is less a horror movie than a luxurious reverie on horror-movie themes. The director, Neil Jordan, and his cinematographer, the great Philippe Rousselot, have given the movie an extraordinary seductive look, but Rice (who wrote the screenplay) doesn't provide enough narrative to keep the audience satisfied. Her vampires are so isolated from the world that there really isn't much for them to do except go on their nightly rounds and squabble-suck and bicker, suck and bicker, in scene after scene. Gorgeous as the picture is, the endless elaborations on the vampire story's obvious eroticism become very tiresome. This movie is convincing evidence that in popular genres subtext should stay where it belongs-underground. If it's brought into the light, it shrivels and dies. With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rae, and Christian Slater.-T.R. (11/21/94) -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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SOMETHING TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO
WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT TWO TOP MALE BOX OFFICE MEGA STARS. I HAVE BEEN A FAN OF BOTH CRUISE AND PITT FOR A VERY LONG TIME. I HAVE SEEN ALL OF THEIR FILMS. I THOUGHT WHEN THIS FILM CAME OUT, WOW HOW DID THEY MANAGE THIS? TOM CRUISE AND BRAD PITT BOTH HEADLINEING A FILM ABOUT VAMPIRES.
THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE TWO ACTORS IS FANTASTIC. GOOD VERSES EVIL, BRADS VAMPIRE WITH A HEART AND CRUISES INDIFFERENCE PLAY OFF EACH OTHER LIKE A BOW AND VIOLIN. THIS FILM HAS SPARK AND MAGIC. THIS MOVIE IS A MUST HAVE FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES FANTASY. A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR FILM LIBRARY.

Very pleasing
Oh, you haven't seen this movie, go ahead and do yourself the favor of buying it, you'll watch it at least once a year, but because it's Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in your living room dressed as very lovely vampires, I predict it will be more often than that! Classic vampire movie, I never paid much attention to it until I watched it this time, but there are a lot of homosexual undertones in this film, very strong undertones. At any rate, it's very entertaining, I'd recommend buying it!