All of Me

Steve Martin Director: Carl Reiner Carl Reiner

Overview

Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin in the comedy All of Me, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. English, Spanish, and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include the trailer. This is a pedestrian release from Trimark.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/02/1999
UPC:	0031398700135
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	PG
Source:	Lions Gate
Region Code:	0
Sound:	[stereo]
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	1,546

Special Features

Closed captions; Cast and crew information; Spanish, English, and French subtitles; Movie trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steve Martin	Roger Cobb
Lily Tomlin	Edwina Cutwater
Victoria Tennant	Terry Hoskins
Madolyn Smith	Peggy Schuyler
Richard Libertini	Prahka Lasa
Dana Elcar	Burton Schuyler
Jason Bernard	Tyrone Wattell
Selma Diamond	Margo
Jim Welch	James Welch IV
Eric Christmas	Fred Hoskins
Gailard Sartain	Fulton Norris
Neva Patterson	Gretchen
Michael Ensign	Mr. Mifflin
Peggy Feury	Dr. Betty Ahrens
Nan Martin	Divorce Lawyer
Basil Hoffman	Court Clerk
Hedley Mattingly	Grayson
Harvey Vernon	Judge
Stu Black	Police Officer
Marilyn Tokuda	Receptionist
David Byrd	Minister
Nick Shields	Hard Hat
Bill Saito	Security Guard
Neil Elliot	Cabbie
Ronn Wright	Cook

Technical Credits

Carl Reiner

Henry Olek

Phil Alden Robinson

Carl Reiner	Director,Screenwriter
Willie D. Burton	Sound/Sound Designer
Edward C. Carfagno	Production Designer
Stephen Friedman	Producer
Richard H. Kline	Cinematographer
Bud Molin	Editor
Henry Olek	Screenwriter
Phil Alden Robinson	Producer,Screenwriter
Albert M. Shapiro	Asst. Director
R. Bruce Steinheimer	Special Effects
Ray Summers	Costumes/Costume Designer
Patrick Williams	Score Composer
Jerry Wunderlich	Art Director,Set Decoration/Design
Marv Ystrom	Special Effects

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Main Credits [2:36]
2. Grave Post [3:47]
3. Naughty [4:11]
4. Respect [1:39]
5. Heart [5:31]
6. Harmonics [5:11]
7. Tunnel [3:58]
8. Coordination [3:10]
9. Indiscretion [4:36]
10. Welcome [2:32]
11. Mirror [3:05]
12. Memorial [3:08]
13. Special [4:37]
14. Friends [3:17]
15. Cranky [2:24]
16. Gifts [5:47]
17. Funeral [4:08]
18. Tingles [4:02]
19. Double-Cross [4:06]
20. Dream [5:05]
21. Flowers [4:27]
22. Deal [4:12]
23. Exchange [3:19]
24. End Credits [2:27]

Menu

Side #1 --
   Play Movie
   Scene Index
   Subtitle Selection
      Subtitles: None
      French
      Spanish
      English Captions
   Filmographies
      Steve Martin
      Lily Tomlin
      Carl Reiner
   Trailers
      All of Me
      Chairman of the Board
      Crossworlds

Editorial Reviews

Steve Martin was honored with several critic's awards for his portrayal of a lawyer with the soul of a jazz musician who gets inhabited by the soul of a dead millionaire (Lily Tomlin) after a botched spiritual transference. Martin has a lot of fun with the slapstick built into the script, which frequently involves his body convulsing in different directions, with the right side controlled by Tomlin's character and constantly at odds with the left. It's a deft performance, and it lays the groundwork for some of the future work of physical comedians like Jim Carrey. But All of Me also sometimes feels like a one-joke movie, and in pursuit of that one joke, the details of the plot get shortchanged. Among the noticeable gaffes is that a memorial service is held for Tomlin's character only hours after she dies -- no wonder nobody shows up. Tomlin is a little flat, rare for one of film's most gifted comics, and Martin indulges too often in the sort of cheap sentiment that's been known to afflict his work. He goes from despising the woman who possesses his body one minute, to dewy-eyed compassion the very next. Still, the movie's gut-busting moments earn it a high recommendation, and it contains astute observations about the differences between the sexes that were funny in groundbreaking ways in 1984. The fourth consecutive (and, so far, last) collaboration between Martin and director Carl Reiner, All of Me keeps the hit streak going.

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