- Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart
- Directors: Neal Israel
- Writers: Neal Israel, Bob Israel, Pat Proft
- Producers: Bob Israel, Gautam Das, Joe Roth, Raju Patel
- Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language: English, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Fox Video
- Release Date: July 13 2004
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005AVS9
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#24,177 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #34 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Stars > Tom Hanks
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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
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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 fiancée, 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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1.0 out of 5 stars
Lame rip-off comes up for air,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bachelor Party (Widescreen) (DVD)
This also-ran 80's sex comedy is getting trotted out again simply because Tom Hanks is in it.Don't waste your time -- the National Lampoon's franchise did it earlier and better. Hanks at best can affect a half-baked Bill Murray imitation. Yes, there are plenty of T&A shots and potty jokes, but many other movies before or since have done it much better. Try the American Pie series if you want to see authentic teenagers in adolescent hijinks. Try Animal House if you want a far funnier party movie. Avoid this at all costs...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tom Hanks' best work,
By Zach Everson (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bachelor Party (Widescreen) (DVD)
I'm not big on hyperbole, but Bachelor Party is Tom Hank's best movie. It's all been downhill for him since 1984. Sure, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, and Apollo 13 are good, but none of them merit watching a few hundred times like Bachelor Party (most viewings took place during the wee hours of the morning while I was in college). Unless you're an imbecile, HIV-positive lawyer, or astronaut, there's not much you can learn from Hank's more acclaimed movies. The same can not be said for Bachelor Party, however. At some point, most guys will have a bachelor party and this movie serves as a great guide to planning one: "Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and firetrucks and hookers and drugs and booze!" There's a lot more you can learn from this movie too. For example, guys, if your in-laws are pressuring you to have kids, just respond as Hank's Rick does: "Well, there's this 17-year-old Oriental girl I have my eye on. But don't worry, you'll have some American grand kids in no time - I know this pup's fertile." Buy this movie (and if you do and can figure out exactly what Rick's going to do with that egg beater, please e-mail me).
3.0 out of 5 stars
The best bad comedy,
By TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bachelor Party (Widescreen) (DVD)
"Bachelor Party" is not a great movie, but when you compare it to some lackluster attempts at sex comedies made today it's definately a stand-alone classic.You probably have to be in the right mood to watch this, but don't take it as an excuse to throw naked bodies around (in fact, there's only one real scene of nudity). I was surprised at how funny this film was, and I was laughing more times than I was offended. A lot of the sex jokes are funny too ("So are you named Rob or...Mister Dick.") while some may be a little too vulgar to be thought funny by rational minds (yeah...donkies...). Overall, it's a good movie. Give it a shot. Or not...whatever you want.
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