Scarecrow DVD

 A classic movie that gets no attention today
The 70's had the powerhouse character driven movies. Todays producers are unwilling to make a movie like Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces and Scarecrow. From the opening scene the quality of this movie is evident. The romantic sentiment of traveling the blue highways and the rails add a beautiful backdrop within the movie. Hackman and Pacino both have amazing performances. This movie won the pal d'or at cannes. Yet a letterbox edition on VHS or DVD is still unavailable. This is the definately the only disappointing thing about this movie. The VHS edition isn't sized for television. Instead the extreme left and right of the picture was simply removed to fit television's dimensions. In one scene Hackman's character Max is flirting with a girlfriend in a backyard. In the left hand background Pacino is doing something comical yet he is completely out of the frame of tv screen. Its frustrating. You won't regret watching the VHS version however if a letterbox vhs version,or better yet a DVD version are ever released I'm first in line.
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 Pacino and Hackman Scare Up Laughs and Tears
This is one of the best written, directed and acted films Pacino plays Lion, a scared young man who has been running from his past and is unaware of the evils of the world. Gene Hackman plays an ex-con, Max who lived a rough life and cares for no-one but himself. When Lion offers his last match to Max on a desolate hiway one day, Max makes it his duty to take lion under his wing and teach him the ways of the real world. They become partners and hope to open a carwash in Pittsburgh but first they must make across the country. You will laugh, sympathize and ultimatly cry.
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