Slipstream | 
| Director: Anthony Hopkins
Actors: Lana Antonova, Stella Arroyave, Lindsay Barth, Marshall Barth, Dean Bitter
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 37156
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 22790
UPC: 043396227903
EAN: 0043396227903
ASIN: B00116GEJI
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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For years, George Lucas has talked about going back to directing avant-garde films with limited commercial potential that would be bound to confound audiences. Venerable actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, 70, went ahead and did it with this daring, provocative dream-within-a-dream, movie-within-a-movie. Part David Lynch, part Pirandello, it throws viewers into the deep end of this "looking glass world" and "mad hatter's tea party." This much we know: Hopkins (who wrote, directed, and even composed the musical score) stars as a screenwriter, Felix Bonhoeffer. Most everything else is up for grabs. Slipstream unfolds in fractured fits and starts. Christian Slater and Jeffrey Tambor portray two actors in a wildly troubled movie ("the whole thing is going to hell in a hand basket" someone proclaims). John Turturro appears as a manic producer in a performance that makes his turn in Transformers look like a model of understatement. There is a Dolly Parton look-alike who introduces herself as "Dolly Parton Look-alike." Kevin McCarthy, star of Invasion of the Body Snatchers), turns up as a dottering incarnation of himself. There is an in-joke about "Hopkins" doing Hannibal 4. Fantasy and reality become interchangeable as Felix is visited by his characters ("You killed me in Scene 23," one protests. "I've got the script"). But that's only the beginning… or maybe the end, as the case may be. Slipstream is thrilling in a "what the what?" sort of way, and repeated viewings will reward adventurous viewers trying to plumb its secrets. --Donald Liebenson
Product Description
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence--the world of reality and the world inside his head. Hired to rewrite a murder mystery set in a desert diner and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion Felix is politely baffled when the characters from his movie start showing up in his life and vice versa. Felix tries to maintain his equanimity as reality and fantasy collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream while his memory banks fire off seemingly random references to songs and sci-fi movies from the Fifties.System Requirements:Run Time: 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/MELODRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396227903 Manufacturer No: 22790
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 A Rarety March 4, 2009
India S. Turner (Seattle, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Slipstream is a rare kind of movie. Read the other reviews (not the 1 stars) if you want to get a fairly inclusive overview. What makes Slipstream so special is that it is experienced by the left brain as utter nonsense, but the right brain can catch on. It is possible to "get" this film without being able to say what you got. Isn't that delightful! The scenes are an indecipherable kaleidoscope that gave me a headache on my left side (true); there is a rhythm, rather than logic and a relatedness, rather than linear unfolding. Perhaps this film is even brilliant. If you can bear to be in a state of not-knowing, this movie can work for you. If you enjoy not knowing, if you enjoy not having complete control over your experience, you may thrill at this film. Early on, you'll realize that the "plot" is too complex for it to all come together at the end. So don't wait for it. Instead, let yourself enjoy your bafflement.
By leaving understanding entirely in our hands, the movie presents us with pure possibility. How often can we say that? Even though it was too violent for my taste, I felt exhilarated and inspired. What it left me with: Each of us is in a wildly individual, and often even significantly divergent, experience. What allows us to be related to another's experience is our ability to step out of our unique perspective and recognize the commonly held narrative in which we each have our own experience. I have no idea if the film delivered that or if my firing-furiously-at-novelty neurons invented it, but such is the wonder of this marvel, that I could be left with this delicious insight. What might you find?
The least of Slipstream's virtues are lighting, cinematography, editing that becomes a "character" and Hopkins' ability to get an excellent performance out of his actors. Bravo.
 Hopkins gave up; copped out October 6, 2008
TheProphetFromTrailopen.com (midwest)
Anthony Hopkins could not have started to make the movie that resulted. This is someone unable to bare his soul; unable to commit to any one important concept that would open a window to the viewer; or allow the viewer "into" Hopkin's consciousness. A gutless collection of "isn't this a cute effect" bridge-to-nowhere-isms.
He is quoted at a film festival as saying 'he was just having fun," but why spend your (or investors) money to not even try to make a piece of art? I believe when his failure became obvious, Mr. Hopkins is hiding in the rationalization that "Well, I didn't really try to make a movie."
Surprising plasticity hidden in special FX.
 Hopkins is as confused as his character August 24, 2008
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
"Slipstream" is a movie written by, directed by and acted in by Anthony Hopkins. It should be great. It is a stinker. Nowadays it has become popular to make surreal movies that leave the viewer guessing. It is overdone, in general, and especially overdone in this movie. There is a constant barrage of disconnected shots and sounds, leading more to confusion and boredom than to profound experience.
I'm still not sure what this movie was supposed to be out and was surprised when one commentator wrote that it is supposed to be a commedy [???]. If so, it's the most uncomedic comedy ever. The only thing I can figure about this mishmash is that it reflects the writer's [Hopkins] own confusion in making a confusing movie. It might be like an old "Twight Zone" film that was altogether better done. In the Twilight film characters at a diner are confused when they do illogical things, make stupid statements and then have to repeat them again. It turns out that they aren't real. They are the product of an overwrought author's imagination as he types pages of dialogue and action, only to toss them in artistic disgust and start over again.
Maybe that's the point of this movie but, if it's the point, it's seen through a very dark looking glass. Maybe Hopkins the writer is writing and rewriting his script and his 'actors', not knowing they are puppets on the writer's string, go through oftentimes idiotic actions only to have to repeat them again, better. Maybe but I'm not sure. I gave this one a second star because I think anyone with 'Sir' in his name needs better than a one star.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God" on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
 How I Went From Hating It To Being 'Interested' August 5, 2008
John W. Schlatter (Grand Junction, Colorado)
As most of you, I am a fan of Anthony Hopkins (unlike most of you I hated Silence of the Lambs as it seemed to me to glorify cruelity)
I started watching this film cold turkey and after 20 minutes, I was thinking "This is the stupidest, dumbest, most irritating pile of crap I have seen" and I turned it it off but out of respect I went to Anthony Hopkins commentary...and like Seinfeld, he admitted it was a filmm "about nothing', he just wanted to play with his imagination...First of all I could listen to him and/or James Earl Jones read the phone book and still love...but he makes some interesting philosophical observations..So it was like having dinner with Mr. Hopkins just 'for the hell of it'
Fun, but I would never watch it again...
WHERE DO I BEGIN? August 3, 2008
hjtras (Horseheads, N.Y.)
Let me start by saying that I love Anthony Hopkins and when I saw that he had his hands into every part of this movie, I jumped at the chance to watch it. That turned out to be a HUGE mistake! I do understand what Hopkins was trying to portray but what actually poured from his mind onto film was erratic and disjointed. I hate to bash anything with Hopkins' name on it but I feel that people should be warned. (Stick with eating people Hopkins....please)
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