Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Richard Farnsworth, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson Directed By: Bob Clark (III) Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 22, 2005 Running Time: 111 minutes Theatrical Release Date: June 22, 1984
Description: Jake (Dolly Parton) is a down-home Country singer with enormous talents. Nick Martinelli (Sylvester Stallone) is a New York City cabbie with an even bigger attitude. But when Jake bets her sleazy manager everything – and she means everything – that she can turn anybody into an overnight sensation, that somebody turns out to be Nick. Now Jake must haul Nick back to the hills of Tennessee for a two-week crash course in how to walk, talk and sing like a genuine Country star. Can a tough talkin’ hillbilly gal with everything to lose and a slick city guy who hits all the wrong notes finally find a way to make beautiful music together? Ron Leibman (NORMA RAE) and Richard Farnsworth (THE STRAIGHT STORY) co-star in this wild comedy from the director of PORKY’S and A CHRISTMAS STORY, co-written by Sylvester Stallone and featuring a hot soundtrack of songs written and performed by Dolly Parton.
It Bombed in the Box Office, Why?!?!?! I saw this movie about 8 or 10 years ago and I thought it was absolutely hilarious! I found it on DVD and for a great price!
The only reason I can think that it bombed in the box office is because no one wanted to see Sly in a comedy; it was all about 'Rocky' and 'Rambo'. And what the heck is he doing making a film with Dolly Parton, right? Well, I would recommend this movie to anyone who has a sense of humor. Yes, it's an 80's flick, but still, it is full of hilarity!
Great. Thank you for getting it to me so quickly without me asking. Wonderful movie and very very funny.
rhinestone movie This is the funniest movie with two very big stars in it. I don't think it ever really made it big, but I absolutely loved it. It made me extremely happy to find it on amazon at such a wonderful price. The movie is about Dolly Parton who plays a country singer of course who has to teach Stallone an Italian New York City taxi cab driver how to become and look like a county singer. Abracadabra! Dolly decides to show him some real country roots and take him back home to her family to teach him how to be country. If she succeeds her manager will break her contract but if she looses she has to sleep with the slimey guy. (the guy playing the part is perfectly slimey too) Funny as funny can be. Stallone and Parton fall in love and Dolly meets her goal as Stallone wins over the crowd with his newly found country style. A Funny and entertaining love story.
MY FAIR MAMMARIES Groucho Marx once wrote that he hated movies in which the leading man's chest was larger than the leading lady's. But he would have been hard-pressed to determine the, ah, biggest star in the cinematic torso-fest RHINESTONE, which pits Sylvester Stallone's overdeveloped pecs against Dolly Parton's matchless mammaries.
PORKY's director Bob Clark, perhaps realizing that his stars' considerable charms don't include acting, cast them according to type -- she as a cornpone country gal, he as an urban Italian lunk -- and yet they aren't believable even as themselves. Laughable, yes.
The plot has struggling C&W warbler Dolly betting her ample body that she can make a singin' success out of the next city slicker who passes by -- and guess who appears? We then take a very extended detour South, where Dolly teaches the Sly guy to think "country," larnin' him such authentic bits of rustic lore as "a cowboy always mixes his peas with his 'taters" (it's how the West was won), and that a country walk is just like a city walk with "a bad case of jock itch." The script never lets up: "There are two kinds of people in this world -- and you ain't one of em!" And, "Where are all the lepers when I need 'em?" When our stars inevitably get together, their love scene is entirely obscured by Dolly's ... hair.
If all this doesn't sound like enough to keep your kitsch-jaded friends amused, just mention these two words: Stallone sings! Sort of like an Elvis-impersonating bullfrog with a speech impediment. That sound alone is enough to rank RHINESTONE with the classic bad star vehicles of all time
This movie is out of this world My mom loves this movie with every bone in her body, I myself cant stand it so I am rating this product for her. I have seen this movie and from what I have seen of it I am surprised that they actually made this movie. But that is not what my mom would say, she would say that it is such a great movie and everyone should own a copy. I just cant stand it. This review is most likely not going to be so helpful but what can I say, you should really rent movies before you buy them anyways.
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