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A Star Is Born
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A Star Is Born
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Sales Rank : 2634
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on 7-21-2008
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Actors: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark, Venetta Fields
Directors: Frank Pierson
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
Language: English
Rating: 
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Release Date: April 15, 1992
Run Time: 140 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  118 customer reviews
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This film actually began with the idea of remaking A Star Is Born with the then-hot couple James Taylor and Carly Simon. Eventually, it evolved into this vanity production for Barbra Streisand, with Kris Kristofferson as the designated stud muffin. The story remains the same: A superstar on the decline meets a young singer on the way up. They marry as their career trajectories intersect, and his eventual demise is meant as a sacrifice to further boost her career by ridding her of the burden of him. Kristofferson's rock & roll numbers are decidedly lousy--Hollywood's idea of rock music--and Streisand looks good and always sounds fine (she won an Oscar for cowriting the song "Evergreen"). But you can feel her heavy hand guiding every shot; she seems to serve as puppet master for director Frank Pierson, framing every image of herself for maximum glow. The ultimate date flick (if the guy can sit still through it). --Marshall Fine
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