Bachelor Party | 
| Director: Neal Israel
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 22816
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D2001644D
UPC: 024543016441
EAN: 0024543016441
ASIN: B00005AVS9
Theatrical Release Date: June 29, 1984
Release Date: June 5, 2001
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Bachelor Party may not be the first trashy sex comedy, but it is perhaps the definitive trashy sex comedy. The movie makes its first breast joke before the opening credits have even finished. A cheerful school bus driver (Tom Hanks) has somehow gotten engaged to a lovely young heiress, much to the chagrin of her family and vengeful ex-boyfriend. The bus driver's roustabout friends decide to throw him a bachelor party--and you can pretty much guess the rest: scantily clad hookers, rampant drug use, bad 1980s new-wave music, really bad 1980s fashions, full frontal nudity (curiously, due to a scene in a Chippendales strip club, there's almost as much male flesh on display as female), bestiality, racial stereotypes, blackmail, attempted suicide, all played for unrepentant cheap laughs. Throughout, Tom Hanks floats along with a carefree (if slightly sheepish) grin, projecting such an air of impish innocence that it's hard to be offended by any of it. And it all ends in a wedding, just like a Shakespearean comedy. Also featuring the blinding white teeth and big hair of Tawny Kitaen (playing the good girl Hanks marries), buxom scream queen Monique Gabrielle, and Adrian Zmed, whose career has not fared as well as Hanks's. --Bret Fetzer
Description
This outrageously funny look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars TOM HANKS as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of friends who view partying as their full-time religion. Rick's worried fiancee, Debbie (TAWNY KITAEN), dresses up in disguise and crashes the party to spy on her future husband. To complicate the night further, Debbies father hires her ex-boyfriend to win back his daughter. It turns out to be an evening the soon-to-be bride and groom will never forget.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 "Make a circle with the hookers, its time to put Cochise out of business" December 11, 2008
Pastor of Disaster (Wexford, Ireland)
I used to like golf. I still do but life has conspired against me and I have not played for years. Reading these reviews has been the equivalent of being on the first tee on a sunny day, settling over the ball, driver in hand and looking forward to a great round. My heart is filled with joy and remembrance of times past and I feel the world is a better place for seeing so many positive reviews of this film, when I thought I would be the only one to have liked it!
I have busted a gut laughing at the lines people have been quoting from the film, yes, I am 40 and have watched this film dozens of times, but it really is watchable, and I'm sure many of the reviewers are around my age and have as fond memories as I do of the film.
I was so glad to see one reviewer say that Hanks is still pleased with the film, so he should be. He delivers his lines with fun and style and I hoped he enjoyed making the film. There are so many lines, I love his attempt to cook for Debbie where he plops a bunch of raw potatoes in a bowl on the table, "its potato salad, I hope you like it chunky style" and later in bed, Debbie is awake telling him a list of things that are worrying her "your family, may family, the dress, my shower, your bachelor party.." Hanks replies, "er, what about the Middle East, how are you with that?" The film is well written and well acted, and although it moved predictably between a series of set pieces, they are done so well, you have to laugh. (The "Nick the Dick" scene is right up there with the Porkies "tally-wacker ID parade scene", and that is just one of the set pieces). Obviously Adrian Zhmed went on to be Officer Romano in TJ Hooker and Michael Dudikoffs name appears in B-Movies regularly, but all of the actors deliver humorous performances, and the overall effect is a high quality 80's "Frat" style film. Ladies, if you have a 40-something hubby, might I suggest a fine birthday gift would be a few friends, beer, nibbles and a 3 DVD night in with the lads featuring Bachelor Party, Porkies and Weird Science. Meanwhile, the ladies perhaps can watch St Elmos Fire, The Breakfast Club and Heathers in an adjoining room/house/town/state.
And Mr Hanks, if you are reading this, when you get your lifetime achievement Oscar, I hope you demand that they show a clip from this wonderful work to the Academy,
l KlLLED A MULE!!!! May 21, 2008
Smegma Cheese (l got a hundred guns, a hundred clips 'coz l'm from New York, New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The donkey show is worth the price of the video. Not just the belly dancing w/the mule, but the mule 0.D.ing on coke is a gas and a giggle.
It's what a comedy SHOULD be like! They don't make'em like they used to... August 12, 2007
L Gontzes (Athens, Greece)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
One of the classic 80's comedies, Bachelor Party, brings to the screen the story of a school bus driver for whom his buddies throw the wildest, most incredible bachelor party with all the ups and downs that that entails!
Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen (who has to be one of the most GORGEOUS women of all time/no exaggeration!!!), and the rest of the cast have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the humor, and the music are all wonderful!
In short, Bachelor Party is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection (if you haven't done so already)!
 Truly Honest Laughs, many of them! March 26, 2007
Bill Board (God's Wrath, Ohio)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I dunno - this movie is pure escapism/mood elevation, whatever. But am I alone in preferring THIS Tom Hanks and the TH in "Dragnet" to politically correct effluvia like "Philly" or "Forrest Gump?"
 One Line Review January 7, 2007
Jeremy M
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
It's a wonder anyone in this tasteless comedy ever made another movie again...or won an Oscar...much less two.
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