Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300270299 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300270297 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Sales Rank: 11543
Amazon.com: Terrence McNally adapted his Broadway farce for this wild, headlong comedy set in one of the gay bathhouses that were once a staple of New York culture. Jack Weston plays a guy who makes the mistake of crossing his gangster brother-in-law. Fearing for his life, he hides in the gay baths and the door-slamming chaos begins. Directed by Richard Lester, the comedy is adept and well handled, with Weston watching his back while trying to pass as a regular customer. It's hard to tell which is funnier: Treat Williams as an undercover cop with a falsetto voice or Rita Moreno as the baths' supremely untalented--and even more supremely self-confident--singer, Googie Gomez. Her performances alone make this movie worth watching. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Forgotten memories of a great movie
I first saw The Ritz when I was in college back in 1977. I loved the movie then and was thrilled to be able to purchase it from Amazon. I laughed over and over again while watching. Rita Moreno was awesome ... Read More
Rating: - DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE!
This is an awful movie. A plot that falls short, great talent wasted, gags that weren't funny thirty-two years ago, and the usual assortment of straight men being shocked by aggressive gays. What a snore. ... Read More
Rating: - Googy Gomez the last of the real trash Queens
This is the famous pre-aids gay movie from the great, now forgotten, Richard Lester who developed it from a Terence Mcnally off-Broadway play.
Without Lester there would have been no Bonnie and Clyde, ... Read More
Rating: - Off-beat comedy - lots of fun for the broadminded
Terence McNally's play finds a straight husband hiding out from his murderous brother-in-law in a gay bath-house in NYC. This off-beat comedy has lots of laughs, if you are broad-minded. Filmed in England ... Read More
Rating: - Funnier the First Time
While still a very funny movie, The Ritz is probably better suited to an audience uncomfortable in their sexuality. Set in a gay bathhouse, the clientelle are all stereotypes and most of those are unflattering. ... Read More
- Forgotten memories of a great movie
- DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE!
- Off-beat comedy - lots of fun for the broadminded