Mickey Blue Eyes

• Cert:
• Cat.no: D 0C2565
• Running time: 98 minutes
• Year: 1999
• Pressing: 2000
• Region(s): 2, PAL
• Chapters: 33 plus extras
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: 5 languages
• Widescreen: 1.85:1
• 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £19.99
• Extras : Scene index, Trailer, Cast and Crew, Director’s Commentary

Director:

Kelly Makin

(Mickey Blue Eyes, National Lampoon’s Senior Trip)

Producers:

Screenplay:

Music:

Cast:

Michael Felgate: Hugh Grant
Frank Vitale: James Caan
Gina Vitale: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Vito Graziosi: Burt Young
Philip Cromwell: James Fox
Vinnie ‘The Shrimp’: Joe Viterelli

Mickey Blue Eyes is the name affectionally given to Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant), an auctioneer for a company that’s not doing quite as well as it should, after he becomes, literally, married to the mob after just three months of dating teacher Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn). Her father is Frank Vitale (James Caan, sending up his Godfather role), the head of an Italian mob family crime syndicate.

After the heavies get involved and sort out Michael’s ensuing art delivery problems and then begin to influence the auctions, what results is a comedy that could easily have fallen flat on his face, but it doesn’t – presuming Hugh Grant makes you laugh with his constant upper-class twit facade. It does for me and there are plenty other moments where comedy timing is perfect, even if the thought of Grant getting into such a situation is highly unlikely as it’s carried out very well indeed.

The film is presented in its original 1.85:1 widescreen ratio and is anamorphic. It looks almost-perfect with just a few print scratches early on. The average bitrate is a steady 5.91Mb/s.

The sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1, but isn’t used to great effect – only a few scenes where gunshots are involved mainly.

Extras :

Chapters : 33 chapters to the 98-minute film, so no complaints here.

Languages and Subtitles : English in Dolby Digital 5.1 for dialogue. Subtitles are available in English (and hard of hearing), Arabic, Romanian and Bulgarian – so, all the popular English-speaking languages then…

And there’s more… : A Trailer, a Director’s Commentary and the Cast and Crew is precisely that – a listing of the main actors, not the filmographies dealy it infers.

Menu : Static, but with some music from the theme tune.

Overall, this was a more entertaining film than I thought it would be, even if there’s a cheesy ending involved. I presume it’s also the last film that will come from Simian Films as it was – the company run by both Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley – since that have split up.

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