Eyes of Laura Mars | 
| Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Raul Julia
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 7427
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: COLD02847D
ISBN: 0767821610
UPC: 043396028470
EAN: 9780767821612
ASIN: 0767821610
Theatrical Release Date: August 2, 1978
Release Date: July 4, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
About a chic fashion photographer who witnesses the grisly murders of her friends and colleagues through her psychic visions. Special features: fullscreen and widescreen version subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai directors commentary production notes and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Faye Dunaway Tommy Lee Jones Run time: 103 minutes Rating: R Director: Irvin Kershner
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 Great Classic Movie June 3, 2009
Carol L. Mckinstry (Miami, FL USA)
This is a movie I remember from my teens & I finally ordered it on Amazon.com. Wish I had thought of it sooner.
Eyes of Laura Mars January 24, 2009
Kathy
I enjoyed it as much this time as I did back in the 70's when it was a cult film with my friends. You know how sometimes you go back to something you loved as a teenager and find that it does not fill you with excitement like it did then? Well this is not the case here. Excellent and has some really interesting cast members who I didn't know back then such as Mr Addams from the Addams Family Movies and more. You'l love it.
 Hot Bods, Not Much Else January 15, 2009
Choice Critic (Highland, IN)
Faye Dunaway is one of my favorite actresses. She gives a good performance but is limited by a mediocre plot in this mediocre movie. She is the Laura Mars of the title. Laura is a high fashion photographer who mixes sex with violence in her photography. In 1978 it was a more controversial issue than it seems to be today. Its thin veneer serve as a token plot theme.
Out of nowhere Laura begins having psychic visions of murders of people she knows which turn out to be real; all committed by the same killer, through whose eyes she envisions the murders. I say out of nowhere because there is no indication that she ever had psychic visions in her past. It makes for a faulty plot non-sequitur, especially since she is obviously at least in her 30's when she begins to have these visions for the first time.
Produced by Jon Peters, one-time hair stylist and ex-husband of Barbra Streisand who sings the title song, the story is long on glitz and short on thrills or chills. There are plenty of topless models getting dressed and some very attractive young women added to cover a very thin plot.
A young Tommy Lee Jones plays detective John Neville who is in charge of Laura's well-being while the killer is on the loose. He is still a few years and film experience away from developing the persona that has made him so popular today. His performance is uneven at best and he seems to have real difficulties with the role. His performance in the final scene must make him cringe today.
Rene Auberjonois gives the best supporting performance as Laura's agent/promoter. Raul Julia is credible as her ex-husband but does not have the chance with such a small role to show the potential that would lead to his brilliant performance in "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1985.
If you buy it, get it cheap.
A rare find! September 17, 2008
D. S. Rhoades
One of my wife's favorite movies that I've been looking for as a surprise birthday present and haven't been able to find it anywhere, except here. Y
Studio 54 meets Equus June 9, 2008
Robert Buchanan (Wisconsin)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A stunning, appropriately photogenic murder mystery in which a controversial photographer (Dunaway) apparently sees the murders of people she knows as they happen. Suspicion is evenly distributed between the titular protagonist, her catty agent (Auberjonois), her driver with a violent criminal record (Dourif), the detective investigating her case (Jones), her drunken loser of an ex-husband (Julia) and a host of other characters, most of whom are gradually eliminated as suspects after being cleared by evidence...or murdered.
Kershner's succeeding position as director of "The Empire Strikes Back" must have been assured when he helmed this film. His technique is immaculate: perfectly framed static shots, graceful, sweeping pans and hazy hand-held angles that convey the nightmarish murders from the killer's perspective are all highlights of Kershner's deft direction, and are rendered magnificent by Victor J. Kemper's lush photography.
I certainly hope that John Carpenter was well paid for this movie's excellent screenplay, the plot and characterizations of which are more complex and carefully defined than those of his own films! Carpenter has always been an inventive screenwriter, but I had no idea that he was capable of creating characters and scenarios of such nuance. The result is far superior to the psych thrillers that were far more widely celebrated over a decade after this feature's release.
Forceful performances by a fine, familiar cast make the most of this film's technical magnificence and keen story. Perfectly cast, Dunaway is as overwhelmingly emotive as she is physically striking; very few American lead actresses in contemporary films have been able to present such fervid characterizations so convincingly. It's interesting to see a couple of future stars among the ranks of the supporting roles; like the lead, these players do not disappoint.
The production design is surely an artifact of the disco-driven late '70s - the sets, costumes, music, etc. are as glittery and overwrought as anything that could be expected of the period. "Eyes of Laura Mars" isn't just a great horror mystery. It's a time capsule, a period piece that reveled in its moment just as "Wall Street" did in the '80s. But while the peculiarities of its presentation are quintessentially 1978, the quality of this classic is undeniable.
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