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EAN: 5050582359343

Format: DVD

Producer: Laura Ziskin

Language: English

Release Year: 2005

Actor: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis

Subtitle Language: Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

Director: Stephen Frears

Features: Widescreen, Filmographies\Trailer\Featurette, With Subtitles

Run Time: 113 Mins

Genre: General, Comedy

Film/TV Title: Accidental Hero

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen

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From Stephen Frears, the director of DANGEROUS LIASIONS and THE GRIFTERS, comes ACCIDENTAL HERO, an engaging comedy starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Andy Garcia. Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, a woman who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by Bernie (Hoffman) a rude, foul-mouthed man who promptly disappears into the night--leaving only his shoe behind. When Gale's TV station offers one million dollars to the mystery hero, John, a gentle Vietnam vet (Garcia), appears to claim the prize--and share it with the city's homeless. But this screwball Cinderella story is complicated by the real hero, who is a small-time crook that nobody believes. Both men, it seems, have something heroic inside--as well as something to hide--and it's up to Gale to discover the truth.

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Accidental Hero

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Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis

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Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

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113 Mins

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Accidental Hero

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David Webb Peoples

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by 23963543
25 Aug, 2023
Great little movie
All good enjoyed
Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: marchad2406
by emmwesto-1
07 Jul, 2021
Accidental hero
Brilliant movie a definite must see, arrived well packed and fast
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: musicmagpie
by derekstorey4307956415384
07 Feb, 2017
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by seank9597
12 Jul, 2007
You can't help liking it !
According to legend there's a mystical theatre of ideas somewhere in the western hemisphere called Hollywood, its aim is to perpetuate a myth called the American Dream, and this movie is a good example of just such a film: anyone can become a hero or celebrity if they happen to be in the right place at the right time, or put another way, if they are lucky enough to win the lottery. Our Hero Berni Laplant (Dustin Hoffman), described by the police as a 'slippery little sh*t', is a cynical petty criminal who thinks everyone else in the 'jungle' cheats so why should'nt he. He philosopy of life is to keep a low profile until one stormy night he's faced with a difficult choice, whether to save fifty four people from a burning passenger plane, or his one hundred dollar shoes from getting wet. ... According to legend there's a mystical theatre of ideas somewhere in the western hemisphere called Hollywood, its aim is to perpetuate a myth called the American Dream, and this movie is a good example of just such a film: anyone can become a hero or celebrity if they happen to be in the right place at the right time, or put another way, if they are lucky enough to win the lottery. Our Hero Berni Laplant (Dustin Hoffman), described by the police as a 'slippery little sh*t', is a cynical petty criminal who thinks everyone else in the 'jungle' cheats so why should'nt he. He philosopy of life is to keep a low profile until one stormy night he's faced with a difficult choice, whether to save fifty four people from a burning passenger plane, or his one hundred dollar shoes from getting wet. Reluctantly He opts for the former, only to disappear into the jungle, leaving one of his expensive shoes on the banks of a muddy river, and a lot of people wondering who he was. Unbeknown to him among the passengers he helped saved was a news junkie reporter Gale Galey (Geena Davis aka Hildi Johnson, His Girl Friday')who is even more cynical about life, or should that be death, than he is. On one assignment she asks her cynical nut case cameraman if he got the 'fall shot'after some poor executive she is interviewing jumps to his death off a tall building. Galey has just won an award for her journalism and with the help of an onion (a very amusing scene)tears of conscience roll down her cheeks. Enter John Bubber (Any Garcia) a near destitute Nam veteran with a heart of gold who lives in a transit full of empty beer cans that he sells to raise money for the homeless. He picks up Berni thumbing a lift, who tells him about the plane crash leaving him with his only shoe as a parting gift. When Galey is told by her cynical editor about the mystery man who saved her life she gets very excited and with the help of the other shoe retrieved from the crash, and a $1000,000 reward, she is determined to find him. Bubber successfully claims the reward and with it fame and fortune. The deception proves too much for his conscience, and he almost ends up a 'fall shot' himself. This is a very clever and entertaining comedy in the best Capra tradition, but when the righteous hero delivers his parting homily to the American people, the cynical editor cannot believe his ears 'what a crock of sh*t' says he, and for cynics like me I'm inclined to agree with him. Hoffman as the wretched Berni Laplant, Davis as the gorgeous news reporter in search of a noble story, and Andy Garcia as the miracle man, pull it off beautifully. Despite the falsity of the underlying message, well worth watching.
by shaun1521biz
24 Jul, 2006
Accidental Hero
Dustin Hoffman plays a lowlife who happens upon a plane crash and rescues the passengers, but doesn't really care about the value of his deed or the attendant publicity when the media starts searching for the hero. Another fellow (Andy Garcia) steps into the gap and claims credit, and as his life changes for the better he takes on a Messianic glow. Geena Davis is the cynical television reporter who pushes the latter's fame in order to keep her story alive, and this film, directed by Stephen Frears (Prick Up Your Ears), takes a few familiar jabs at a manipulative and voyeuristic press. This is essentially an unofficial remake of Meet John Doe, though it is less dramatic and forceful in the end than Frank Capra's classic. Chevy Chase has an oddly anachronistic part as Davis' editor (maybe he ... Dustin Hoffman plays a lowlife who happens upon a plane crash and rescues the passengers, but doesn't really care about the value of his deed or the attendant publicity when the media starts searching for the hero. Another fellow (Andy Garcia) steps into the gap and claims credit, and as his life changes for the better he takes on a Messianic glow. Geena Davis is the cynical television reporter who pushes the latter's fame in order to keep her story alive, and this film, directed by Stephen Frears (Prick Up Your Ears), takes a few familiar jabs at a manipulative and voyeuristic press. This is essentially an unofficial remake of Meet John Doe, though it is less dramatic and forceful in the end than Frank Capra's classic. Chevy Chase has an oddly anachronistic part as Davis' editor (maybe he thought he really was in Meet John Doe), but the film belongs to Hoffman, who makes his character a slightly cleaned-up version of the actor's own Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy.

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