Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271302 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300271307 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: August 31, 1994 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 20, 1987 Sales Rank: 39330
Amazon.com: Burglar may not be one of Whoopi Goldberg's best outings, but it does offer her several opportunities to cut loose as a comedian. She plays a bookshop owner with a shady past who is being blackmailed by a crooked cop and must perform one last heist. Naturally, everything goes wrong and a handsome lothario winds up dead. Whoopi must find his murderer before the police find her. There are a couple of unexpected twists to this formulaic tale though Hugh (First Wives Club) Wilson's direction can't always navigate the tonal shifts between comedy and murder mystery. But Whoopi holds it all together with strong assistance from a stellar cast including Bob Goldthwait, John Goodman, Anne DeSalvo, and Lesley Ann Warren. Goldthwait, who plays a dog groomer and Whoopi's wacked-out best friend, has several priceless moments featuring his squeaky-door crazy-man vocal delivery. Goodman and DeSalvo, both crackerjack comic actors, don't have nearly enough to do while Warren plays a curvaceous dentist and the ex-wife of the murder victim who seems to have suspect written all over her. --Richard Natale
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - It's as SMART as it is FUNNY! You won't be sorry!
I want everyone to know that I am 21 years old, and I saw this movie on cable when I was only 13. I walked out of my room a changed person, and realized what I wanted to do with my life from that moment ... Read More
Rating: - I don't know why this got bad reviews, it was pretty funny.
Especially when Whoopi was on screen, and Bob Cat was hilarious as her psyco friend. Enjoy!
Rating: - Laugh your a## off! These were the days!
This is when Whoopi was beginning to, "blow up" in terms of popularity. It's a funny comedy and that's all it's meant to be. I bought it because I don't have it, remembered it, wanted to laugh and so my ... Read More
Rating: - A burg - a - lar good time.
When i first saw this movie last year i watched it a thousand times the chase is very cool the part where there at the you know where and you what happens to find out what happens you need to rent it if you ... Read More
Rating: - Burglar
What did my parents used to say to me? Oh yeah, "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all."
I'd better not say anything at all about this movie...
- It's as SMART as it is FUNNY! You won't be sorry!
- I don't know why this got bad reviews, it was pretty funny.
- Burglar