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Used Cars | 
| Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank Mcrae, Deborah Harmon
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.95
Buy Used: $3.82
You Save: $6.13 (62%)
New (42) Used (19) Collectible (2) from $3.82
Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 9297
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 05851
ISBN: 0767859855
UPC: 043396058514
EAN: 9780767859851
ASIN: B00005UEQX
Theatrical Release Date: July 11, 1980
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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This 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis gives no indication of things to come in his career (Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humor he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis's) of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used Cars more pastiche than original (the film's title itself suggests that), but as such it has some good, if vaguely familiar, laughs in it. Russell, particularly, is very funny as a practiced con man. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Jack Warden is brilliant in a double role as two feuding brothers Luke and Roy L. Fuchs who own competing car lots and are trying to drive each other out of business. Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is Luke's ace salesman a charming and conniving cheat and liar who is merely in training for his true ambition - politics. In one of Rudy's most outrageous advertising ploys he hires a model (Penthouse Pet of the Year Cheryl Rixon) to strip on television and the all wind up in a crazy automobile stampede involving 200 vintage cars in a high-speed chase that becomes a free-for-all demolition derby.System Requirements:Starring: Kurt Russell Gerrit Graham Deborah Harmon Frank McRae and Jack Warden. Directed By: Robert Zemeckis. Running Time: 113 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2002 Columbia TriStar.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396058514 Manufacturer No: 05851
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| Customer Reviews: Read 82 more reviews...
 Hilarious Classic! June 26, 2008
katc (Sterling, IL)
This DVD was hilarious--it you don't mind watching a movie that hasn't been 'digitally re-mastered' and you like comedy's--this is a great flick! It arrived on time and was brand new just at the description listed. Very happy with this purchase.
 Disappointed May 12, 2008
Stella Smith (USA)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
We watched this the first time on TV and thought it was so funny...I bought one and was very disappointed because it was filled with bad language......
Good times!! March 23, 2008
M. A. Stevenson (Kane, IL)
This is a great movie. I saw it at a drive-in back in 1980, and loved it since!!! Jack Warden puts on a great performance as the Fuchs Brothers!!
Kurt Russell plays the best "con artist" there is, Lenny and Squiggy are electronic geniuses, and all the actors were great!!! And don't forget Toby the cute beagle!!
Funny February 10, 2008
Katrina L. Chilton (KY)
This is a funny movie to buy for someone who especially has a car lot, lol. They would get a kick out of it.
 Hold Up Well February 5, 2008
P. M Simon (New Mexico)
Director Robert Zemeckis produced this slapstick comedy almost 30 years ago. I first saw it over 20 years back and recently re-watched it to see if it was as funny as I remembered. It was.
Plot: Thin plot about two rival used car dealers--both brothers and both played by Jack Warden. The good guy--the shabbier, of course, must fend off his predatory brother who wants the shabby dealership since the nice place is scheduled to become an off-ramp.
With a cynical view of life, ordinary folks' intelligence, politics, and the inherent corruption of man, the film is light--and dark-- comedy.
The script delivers many punchy, if old, lines and Kurt Russell heads a cast of oleaginous con men (and women) who deliver them well.
There's nothing deep or serious here but Used Cars does bear repeated watching for light-hearted fun. Well worth the price (under a Sawbuck! as they say).
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