Overview
An updating of the classic Western TV series MAVERICK, this comic oater finds our fast-talking, hard-gambling hero surviving many adventures while trying to come up with enough money to play in a high-stakes poker game. Penned by William Goldman with music by Randy Newman. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Richard Donner - Director
Noah Emmerich
Jodie Foster
James Garner
Mel Gibson
Graham Greene
James Coburn
Art LaFleur
Art La Fleur
Calvin Bartlett
Chuck Hart
Details
- Format: DVD (Full Frame, Repackaged, Amaray Case, Widescreen)
- Run Time: 127
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 883929084739
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: PG (MPAA)
- Release Date: September 2009
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
Bret Maverick, that charming, amoral gambler of TV fame, is back, and still wreaking comic havoc wherever he goes.
Maverick's out to compete in the Three Rivers Poker Championship, but he's got one small problem: he still needs another three grand for the entrance fee. Soon he's donning disguises, fighting Indians and holding up hooligans... doing anything he must to get that cash.
Notes:
Copyright 1994 Icon Productions.
Filmed in Technicolor; in Anamorphic.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
Reviews:
"...Gibson, Foster and Garner have a ball, and they make the feeling contagious..." - 06/16/1994 Rolling Stone, p.115
"...Entertaining, amiable....Consistently good to look at..." - 08/01/1994 Sight and Sound, p.46-7
"...Fast, funny, full of straight-ahead action and tongue-in-cheek jokes....A smart, new-fangled MAVERICK..." - 05/20/1994 New York Times, p.C1
"The cast is adorable, the characters are foolproof..." - 06/03/1994 Entertainment Weekly, p.36
"...The first lighthearted, laugh-oriented family Western in a long time....It's fun....One of the pleasures of the film is watching the actors used by director Richard Donner to populate his backgrounds..." - 05/20/1994 Chicago Sun-Times, p.39
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