Wrongfully Accused

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With the success of There's Something About Mary, the brothers Farrelly would seem to have inherited the dumb-comedy crown from the various talents who made Airplane! and its many descendants: Top Secret!, The Naked Gun, Hot Shots!. For the most part, that's true, but as Wrongfully Accused proves, there's a bit of life in the old shtick. Pat Proft, a screenwriter on The Naked Gun series and Hot Shots!, makes his directorial debut with this farce, which stars--surprise, surprise--Leslie Nielsen in a parody of the feature version of The Fugitive. More than that: Proft piles on joking references to a host of other dramas, including Casablanca, Mission: Impossible, and Braveheart. While the persistence of these inter-movie gags can wear a viewer down a bit, the fact is some of the silly stuff really does hit its target. If the progeny of Airplane! were to end with this movie, it would be a worthy way to say farewell to a once-good idea. The DVD includes trailers, a game, Dolby, audiovisual production notes, cast interviews, biographies and filmographies, English and French soundtracks, and English, French, and Spanish subtitles. With Kelly LeBrock, Richard Crenna, Sandra Bernhard, and Michael York. --Tom Keogh

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THE ELECTRIC CHAIR, LETHAL INJECTION, FIRING SQUAD. THOSE AWAIT RYAN HARRISON AFTER HE'S WRONGFULLY ACCUSED AND SENTENCED TODEATH BUFFET STYLE. SIGHT GAGS, WORD PLAYS, PARODIES. THOSE AWAIT COMEDY FANS WHEN HARRISON ESCAPES AND GOES ON THE LAM FUGITIVE-STYLE IN THIS LOOPY LAUGHATHON., ISBN13: 9780790738499 ISBN10: 079073849X Material Type: dvd