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| Evel Knievel | 
 enlarge | Director: John Badham
Actors: George Eads, Jaime Pressly, Lance Henriksen, Matt Gordon, Peter Macneill
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 62211
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 91
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DT6899D
ISBN: 0780649567
UPC: 053939689921
EAN: 9780780649569
ASIN: B0009GX1DS
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 2004
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: DVD like new, no marks noted. Original case missing insert. Fast shipping.
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Product Description
He soars over snarling cougars and crates of poisonous snakes. Hurtles rows of buses slams through walls of flame. Defies precipitous canyons and ornate hotel fountains. Garners wealth fame and a Guinness Book of Records-setting 35 broken bones. "It's going to be anything but dull" Evel Knievel says about his life. Decked out in red white and blue and exuding bravado George Eads (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) plays the title role an John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs this decades-spanning story of the hard-living steel-straddling man who went to daredevil extremes long before there was anything called Extreme Sports. Hop on and hang on. It's time to fly with Evel Knievel.Running Time: 91 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 053939689921
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Nice Evel flick. (RIP Evel) December 27, 2007
Enjoyed this movie recently w/ my family. Besides a few mildly profane words, this movie is good for the whole family. This film, which was made for tv, explores Evel's life from a personal frame of reference. No special effects, and no great jump footage, but still, a great Evel piece which examines a true American legend. Well worth the few dollars I paid (around 15 w/ shipping).
RIP Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. December 1, 2007
(October 17, 1938 - November 30, 2007)
RIP Evel, there will never be another daredevil quite like you...
It was just OK July 12, 2007
I won't shy away from the fact that I bought this movie because I am a huge fan of George Eads. If he hadn't been in this movie, I never would've bought it.
Had it not been for him, I probably would've turned it off. He's the only redeeming quality that the movie has to offer. That, and his chemistry with Jamie Pressly . . .
 George Hamilton's was better... June 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I thought the George Hamilton (1971) biopic of Evel was hokey but Eads' version is simply terrible. This movie is flawed and very poorly thought out. Eads is a good actor on CSI and Jaime Pressly is OK on the TV show "My name is Earl", but they were both miscast in this film. To top it off, the movie opens in 1950 and features a Jerry Lee Lewis song that wasn't even recorded until the LATE 50's! They should have put a song in that was relevant to the times Evel grew up in. To make matters worse, Evel looks 7 in the scene, but he would have been 12 by 1950.
Jamie Pressly plays Linda Bork as a gum-smacking redneck glamor girl with a nasty "southern" accent---in Butte Montana! Linda Bork, by most accounts, was a nice girl who eventually fell in love with Evel, despite his hard ways. In this film, Pressly portrays her as an aggressive, dolled-up hooker-type. To nitpick even more, Knievel had a clean-cut look in the sixties but Eads has a bushy mullet-wig throughout.
Q: Why was Lance Henriksen in this film?
A: To show young Bobby Knievel how to cleanse his bowels by eating the shells of roasted peanuts while incarcerated. What.......? Great actor. Must've needed the money.
One thing the film includes is the death of Evel's father-in-law, played by Beau Bridges. It's a topic that few documentaries or films cover. But when father-Bork dies, the audience has little sympathy due to the poor character development.
If you want to know about Evel, avoid this film (I love Knievel and bought the DVD for a few bucks just to have it in my collection). Get "Spectacular Jumps", "Gladiators" (the longer version of "Spectacular jumps" and watch "Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel story" with Matthew McConaughey. Also, "Viva Knievel" is a fun 70's film featuring Evel, himself. All of them are fun and informative.
I wish someone would make a film worthy of Evel's contribution to sports, entertainment and pop culture. When Evel Knievel is gone, the "Last of the gladiators" will certainly be missed as a true icon. This movie is a total waste and I can't believe someone would try to pass this movie off as anything other than an overblown Hollywood fantasy. Compared to this film, George Hamilton should have been given an Oscar. Terrible...
What did you expect? March 31, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great movie about the legend of Knievel, more based on fact than the 1971 movie of the same name. Eads was as cocky as Evel was in real life. Buy it if you are a fan of this American icon!
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