Rhinoceros Used DVD
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black, Robert Weil, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chris
Rated:
NR
Category: Comedy
Run Time:
104 minutes
Released:
2003, KIN
Director:
Tom O'Horgan
Stock:
116098D1
Format:
DVD
Number of Discs:
1
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Rhinoceros Used DVD
Rhinoceros Description: "Reunited for the only time after their triumph in Mel Brooks' The Producers, Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel catapult their shared genius for elegant slaptick, manic wit and sly satire to a level of fearless absurdity that virtually no other comedy team would dare approach. Director Tom O'Horgan, originator of the Broadway smash hit HAIR, transforms playwright Eugene Ionesco's Theater of the Absurd curio Rhinoceros into a fluid, character-rich screen comedy that the Hollywood reported dubbed, 'an excellent film.'"In the face of a modern urban life devoid of anything but an uninterrupted parade of dehumanizing compromise and disappointment, Stanley (Wilder) tenuously guards his fragile individuality in between gulps of booze. The only solace he enjoys is commiseration with his self-consciously sophisticated neighbor John (Mostel), and his unspoken adoration of a warmly sympathetic co-worker Daisy (70's cult object Karen Black). But as a surreal comic apocalypse begins to transform, one by one, everyone into a rhinoceros, the non-conformism that seemed like Stanley's downfall may be his only salvation. Re-creating the role he originated on stage, Mostel delivers the most jaw-droppinly bravura performance of his career, playing off both Wilder's and his own incredulous terror as the fussy, prissy John metamorphoses (entirely without make-up or camera tricks) into a bellowing rhinoceros. Mostel, Wilder and Black's generous characterizations and pitch-perfect comic timing streamline Rhinoceros' convulsive outrageousness into an ardent valentine to both knockabout screen comedy and Ionesco's experiment and timely satire."
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