Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97085 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-01-10
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

Powerful filmmaking
There have been a number of "dope" films that have followed "Born To Win". None have been as searing, honest, funny, and profound as this one. The acting is superb, the writing brilliant, the direction first-rate. This is cinema at its best, powerful filmmaking. George Segals performance is as good as it gets. See it!

A Sadly Neglected Film
This little film from the early seventies stars major film star Robert De niro in a role I'm sure even he can't remember doing along with george segal who plays JJ a sucsessful hairdresser who's hooked on heroerin and runs afoul of the mob. So JJ is up to his neck in trouble when the cops use him to get the goods on a drug smuggler. Absorbing at times very well acted By segal in this somewhat twisted comedy/drama Best scene is when JJ & His friend are shooting up in a washroom in an abandon office floor JJ'S friend overdoses on what he thinks is heroin but instead it's battery acid laced inside the drug meant for JJ. A powerful scene displaying Segal at his efftictive moment in the film. A bittersweet film more regareded and appriciated today then it was first relased over twenty years ago.

DeNiro fans should look somewhere else.
I bought this movie for one reason, and that reason is that Robert Deniro was in the movie. I fell asleep after about 45 min. into the movie, which was after Robert Deniro's cameo. If your a big Robert DeNiro fan such as I then you should look into Taxi Driver, Casino, Goodfellas, Midnight Run, Guilty By Suspicion, Ronin, Analyze This, The Fan , and Ragging Bull. Deniro only has a small part in this film, and as much as I love to see Deniro's brillant acting ability this is not the movie to catch him at his best. Deniro fans should look somewhere else.