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| Guilty Conscience | 
 enlarge | Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 53779
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PLTD01219D
UPC: 096009012199
EAN: 0096009012199
ASIN: B00005LDD2
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 2000
Release Date: January 12, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 A complete difference in opinion May 22, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this dvd for 1.00 in walmart. Contrary to the previous reviews that I just read, I felt that it was important to express my views on this film because all of the reviews strictly concentrated on the quality of the DVD or VHS, and rarely if at all spoke about the movie itself. I had no problem with the quality of the film, it reminded me of a 1984 quality even though it was released in 1999, which doesn't bother me at all. The film itself was very interesting. I felt that the writer had a unique idea in the fact that one of the main characters, Anthony Hopkins, a smart criminal attorney, talks to himself out loud, while actually seeing himself. He prosecutes himself in order to make sense of the case at hand. While he is working on an alibi and a plot to kill his wife. Meanwhile, there are so many different scenarios that he mull's over and that are played out for the audience to imagine and visualize. As the movie develops, we discover that his wife gets involved with his mistress, and together, they plot HIS murder. The only difference between Anthony and his wife, is that because of his professional background, he is busy thinking and planning logically about how it would play out after her death. The ironic part is that the mistress and the wife wined up carrying out HIS original plan, which by the way he already ruled out because it would incriminate him. I guess it's like if you snooze you lose or more so, he seemed to think too much about the consequences and in the end, his wife actually provaled because she didn't hesitate, although, we don't see into the after effects of the murder because it ended not abruptly, but shortly after this took place, which by the way, was my only disappointment because the movie could have gone on for another 25 minutes and I still wouldn't mind at all.
 GOOD MOVIE; HORRIBLE DVD QUALITY February 25, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
As one can see from other reviews, the quality of this DVD is atrocious and Platinum DVD should be ashamed for advertising that it is Digitally Mastered; it's like watching a copy of a VHS. The movie itself is a good who's gonna do it to who, as Anthony Hopkins (pre-Silence of the Lambs) devilishly plays the role of a lawyer who wants to murder his wife (the lovely Blythe Danner); he even has a deceptive mistress (Swoosie Kurtz in a wonderful performance). The movie's script cleverly makes the audience wonder just what is real or what is imagined by Hopkins. A tightly woven tale, it's not fast moving, but it holds your interest. Too bad the DVD quality is so bad, it's hard to appreciate this good movie.
Great movie! March 27, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Before watching "Guilty Conscience", one must first come to terms with the DVD's technical problems. The picture is bad, it looks like a 16th generation VHS tape, not a DVD. The sound is horrid, one must crank the volume way up. It's a TV movie from 1985, so there are Princess Di haircuts, huge shoulder pads, and a rhythm to the admittedly smart dialogue that viewers used to today's television might find strange.
Okay, enough of the bad. The good news is that I liked this movie much more than I ever thought I would. Anthony Hopkins gives a wonderful and inspired performance as Arthur Jameson, a wife-beating, two timing, crooked lawyer who plots to [do away with] his black mailing wife. He is great, and it is always a joy to watch him, especially when he's so YOUNG! His character even says "Quid pro quo", which alone is worth the price of the DVD.
Sir Tony is a delight, and he looks gorgeous.
Since this is the only way I know of to see this good flick, I would recommend it.
 AVOID THIS DVD! December 17, 2000
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Avoid this DVD! As another reviewer said, it's remarkable bad. I wish I'd read his comments before I bought mine. I recommend buying instead a used VHS tape from a rental store. Its quality will be far better than this DVD.The DVD is a poor transcription of a second- or third-generation videotape. It has the tape's tracking problems. The colors are very weak. It is blurry to the degree that you want to say it has *no* resolution. The audio is terrible. Besides being blurry, we had to adjust our volume control to full volume to be able to hear much of it.
Great Movie (Guilty Conscience), Bad DVD Release October 24, 2000
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've purchased several other budget DVDs of "Guilty Conscience" (from other companys such as Direct Video), and this double feature release has the best picture quality of all of these so far. But this isn't saying much, because the video/audio quality still leaves a lot to be desired. Worst of all, this double feature DVD has several technical problems that are very annoying. (At first I thought that I had a defective copy, so I bought another one and experienced the same problems.) What are the problems? First, after the first 20 minutes or so of "Guilty Conscience", the video "jumps" and you completely skip a scene where the Blythe Danner character is supposedly shot by her husband. For some reason, you cannot key in a reverse chapter jump or scan. Also, throughout the rest of the movie, there are occasional spots where the picture just freezes (on its own) for a few seconds. Very, very bad technical flaws in this DVD.However, you're either going to have take it or leave this DVD, because this is the only way you can get this wonderful movie on DVD. Hopefully, a major company that cares about the products they release will reissue this movie on DVD, but since this movie is, I believe, out in the public domain, it's not very likely this will happen. Anyway, buy this DVD at your own risk if you like this movie.
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