The Princess Bride (1998, VHS)

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Mom and Dad gave me a love for old movies. I love black and white films. I love Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Of course, not everything from the "golden age" of Hollywood was golden. There were plenty of clunkers, too. Today also, a huge number of clunkers come out. Every so often, however, there is gold. The Princess Bride is a sample of the gold that still shows up occasionally. To my surprise, I found out recently that my parents had never seen the movie. We rectified that quickly and they both loved it. The movie is framed by the story of a grandson (Fred...

I have seen the Princess Bride more times than I can remember, having first seen it in Junior High in the Theaters, then on video with dates, and now with my own children on a rainy afternoon. This movie has everything- comedy, love, triumph, and failures. All of them lead to the dreamy idea of wide-eyed girls of princes saving them, and sealing it with none other than that perfect kiss. Let me take you on an Adventure of a lifetime, and let me prove to you why this should be in YOUR video library! First off, this movie has an incredible cast of talented Actors and Actresses. I would like to..

The Princess Bride is a classic movie in so many ways that have already been explained before that perhaps I won t even bother telling you about them. Then again maybe I will. Basically this is a fairy tale, being told by a grandpa (wonderfully played by Peter Falks [Columbo]) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage [The Wonder Years]). This isn t a film about Pater Falks reading a story of course, the story he is telling comes to life. There are so many superb performances that it s difficult to know which to highlight, but Cary Elwes [Robin Hood, Men In Tights] as the hero of the piece a young...