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starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis, Cleo Lainedirected by: Gillies MacKinnon
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783116679
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0783116675
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: September 04, 2001
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 19414
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 2000
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Perennial Oscar(r) nominee Judi Dench shakes off the dust of period pieces to play a sassy widow looking to recapture a little of the excitement of her youth: she was the star saxophone player of a World War II-era all-girl dance band. Yanking her instrument from mothballs, she starts blowing the old standards as a street musician, much to the horror of her cultured children (they prefer symphonies to swing classics), and then hatches a plan to track down her band mates for a gala reunion at her granddaughter's school dance. The script carries little suspense and few surprises, but the cast is a delight. Ian Holm costars as the band's womanizing drummer (in a dress and a platinum blonde wig), a rascally old rogue who seduced almost every member during their brief wartime run and married half of them in the intervening years. Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck) is their trombonist, a hard-drinking American widow living it up in a Scottish castle; jazz great Cleo Laine is a trumpeter turned torch singer; and Leslie Caron cameos as their brassy bass player. Joan Sims (a fixture of the Carry On movies), Billie Whitelaw (Quills), and June Whitfield (the mother on Absolutely Fabulous) are among the great British character actors who join the fun. The old broads bring sass to the sentimentality in this fluffy, feel-good, made-for-cable comedy, insisting there is not only life after 60, but that it swings sweetly if only you let it. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Wonderful movie!!!
I love this movie!! The music is outstanding. I wished I could find the soundtrack!
Rating: - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells DVD
I received the DVD The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as a gift and since have ordered 2 as gifts. The response has been terrific! You don't have to be a Judi Dench fan to thoroughly enjoy this delightful period story.
Rating:  - A bit disappointing but worth the viewing
If you are a Judi Dench fan and have collected all she's done, of course you'll jump to it for this DVD. However, it is so much more fluff than expected, one feels obligated to preface one's sharing with "don't expect too much of this". Although glimpses of past stars seemed more like walk-on tributes, it was enjoyable to see them again. Ian Holm plays his part as if it were autobiographical. Now that was fun.
Rating:  - Judi Dench can do no wrong.
No matter what Dame Judi does it is always marvelous. And to see Cleo Laine was a treat, and to hear her sing. Oooh la la.
Rating: - Receipt of Last of the Blonde Bombshells
I had never ordered over the internet before, and I was very surprised at just how quickly this DVD arrived. Also, it was still in its cellophane wrapper...nice!!!
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