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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792172543
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079217254X
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD069244D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1970

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A world war ii pilot tries to have himself grounded as insane but theres a catch. From the joseph heller novel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/17/2006 Starring: Alan Arkin Anthony Perkins Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R Director: Mike Nichols

Amazon.com:
Joseph Heller's novel was one of the seminal literary events of the 1960s, but Mike Nichols's film ultimately proved too literal in its attempt to bring Heller's fragmented fiction to the screen. Still, Nichols, who made this on the heels of The Graduate, seemed the ideal candidate to tackle this Buck Henry adaptation. The story deals with bomber pilot Yossarian (Alan Arkin), who has flown enough missions to get out of World War II but can't because the number of missions needed for discharge keeps getting raised. The satire and absurdity of Heller's book get lost in Nichols's effort to give screen time to the members of his all-star cast, which includes Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Richard Benjamin, and Martin Sheen, among others. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- I don't want to fly anymore, I want to go home
Catch-22 DVD

Catch-22 is based on Joseph Heller's novel about an American air base in the Mediterranean during World War II. Again, if you are a reader IMHO the book Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (Barron's Book Notes) is better, the movie quicker, Starring Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.

Recommended for fans of Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.

Gunner February, 2008

Rating:

- Go Around!
Here goes another review of another movie but this time I would like to include the shock I had at the first time I ever saw this one. Not at all like any movie before or after it....
War is the same no matter who what where when why and how it happens and this war movie takes place during the second World War. WWII. The whole world has gone mad and is bent on killing as many people as possible in the shortest time available.
From an American's view the movie has all the right stuff ... Read More

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- Military madness
Heller's black comedy about the absurdities and the variegated kaleidoscopic insanities that you may find out, after four years of combat. A bombardier group stationed in Italy during the WW1.But there's just a golden rule Catch 22, you may not certify you re mad juts to stop flying missions. On the contrary, you must be mad to fly in more than the usually assigned number of missions.

In this state of things, every man creates his own world of desperation and isolation, one of them Milo ... Read More

Rating:

- Unwatchable.
Gorgeously photographed in grainy, sun-drenched CinemaScope, and peopled by some of Hollywood's finest actors, it is incredible what an absolutely grating experience Catch-22 is.

We are supposed to be watching a parody of leadership in war and the absurd paradoxes that one faces given such inhumanity. Unfortunately, Catch-22 makes a mockery of mockery. This is a film that tries so hard to be hip and subversive that it winds up being the worst kind of pandering, preachy tripe. If it were ... Read More

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- italy is a weak country
Film is similar to the following review--takes a bunch of material, edits until bored and releases the product.

Film repeats two flash backs--primary character Yossarian gets stabbed with a knife and another scene in which airman named Snowden having been injured in flight receives comfort from Yossarian. I do not understand why those two scenes are important.

weather conditions have improved. you will have no trouble seeing the target. of course that means they will have no ... Read More

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