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Change of Habit (Widescreen)

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I am so glad this was in stock...I loved this movie when I was younger and enjoyed watching every minute of it

After reading the reviews for this movie, you would come away thinking it was a comedy. I do not feel the movie could in any way be described as a comedy, unless that is the way America interprets comedy. Why not check out down under in Australia to find out what comedy really means and you'll come away with stitches!

Indeed. I guess you have to look at this movie in this context. It looks dated, kind of like those really bad TV shows of the late 60s and early 70s. The dialogue is terrible, laughable at some points - "she was raped, even against her will" - give me a break!

Elvis looks good, before he blimped out on cheeseburgers and drugs and Mary Tyler Moore is her usual annoying self - its said they didnt get on - not unsurprisingly.

The supporting cast is not too bad - good to see Ed Asner in an early role. This is one of Elvis lost films, so to speak, in that if you are not a fan then you would not really know about it.

Worth a look. The DVD is good quality as is the VHS. The songs are pretty duff but whats new?

It looks like he was trying to get his movie career back on track but was perhaps side tracked by live performances.

Why did they put a bumpkin like Elvis Presley in any kind of serious role? The most serious aspect of the film are his sideburns. This film, like most of Presley's films, stink out loud. In fact, it is unintenionally and hillariously funny. Save your money.

Hey, these juvenile, formulaic Elvis movies must have reached the nadir on this bomb. While all of his movies were terrible, "Change of Habit" might be the worst of a very bad bunch.

In the ghetto with Elvis, his mutton chops in full bloom, as hip and happening Dr. John Carpenter (!), befriending a trio of nuns (Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot) on a plainclothes mission for God. Before taking their vows, the novices have been ordered to take a walk on the wild side, late-Sixties style, with all the trite social commentary and mild sexual titillation a G rating will allow. As comely, full-lipped Sister Michelle, MTM joins the short list (with Julie Andrews and Sally Field) for the title of Hollywood's Most Wholesomely Hot Sister. Naturally, El is smitten with her and can't figure out why she would choose a life of poverty, chastity and obedience over his funky world of howlingly cartoonish ethnic stereotypes, perverts and other fun types.

After this one, Elvis had the good sense to rip up his Screen Actors Guild card. Everybody say "Amen!" But seriously, it's a shame El's last feature film came a cropper. Buoyed by the success of his 1968 comeback special, the Big E looked fitter, less stoned and more handsome (sideburns notwithstanding) than he had in years. Elvis reportedly valued credibility as a serious actor over his natural gifts as a singer/entertainer. Instead of giving him a challenging role worthy of his born-again confidence, "Change of Habit" remains infamous for miscasting Elvis at a time when he was primed and ready to prove himself as an actor. Too bad.

The flick IS watchable for its gallery of familiar faces, among them porcine character actor Robert Emhardt (immortal as blustery businessman Malcolm Tucker in "The Andy Griffith Show's" most essential episode, "Man in a Hurry") hamming it up as a crime kingpin. And the cop that looks remarkably like Ed Asner really is him. How both Asner and MTM managed to escape from the abyss of one of Elvis's most misguided films, only to achieve nirvana in a certain Minneapolis newsroom just a year later, is impressive and miraculous.

This being one of Presley's "serious" movies, the soundtrack is lean, but there is one bizarro musical highlight: a piano-pounding Elvis jamming with MTM, self-consciously fingering a classical guitar like a doe caught in the spotlight, on what sounds like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy." It's a mind-blowingly surreal scene every card-carrying pop culture junkie should see once. And once is definitely enough.

This movie is one of the funniest dramas I have ever seen. Elvis as a doctor in the ghetto is so unbelievable that the comedic value of the movie is astronomical. There are such quotes as "He called my sister a dirty stinkin'...no one calls my sister dirty!" and "knifing a player in football deserves a 15 yard penalty". While it tries to raise serious issues including the role of the church, civil rights, racism, and autism, you come away with nothing but a bad case of side burns. If you want to see Elvis as a hero- do not buy this film. Yet if you find humor in bad social commentary which includes Elvis and Mary Tyler Moore this movie is for you! I loved it for this reason.

Elvis looks great and could be called Dr Feelgood for whatever is wrong with the ladies. It has an interesting story but I felt it could have been developed more. A good movie for the whole family.

I like "Change of Habit",because,it has good songs and Elvis takes a more serious role,which he didn't often take in most of his movies.It's definately more with the times than his other movies.Highly recommended.

I caught this movie on American Movie Classics when they were having an Elvis movie marathon. I have to say this is one and very few GOOD Elvis movies.

In this movie, he's not some struggling musician with 40-year old women helping him along. I think if he wasn't a puppet with the strings being held by a certain manager, he could've made more movies like this one.

True, he does sing a little, but it's a hobby for his character. I don't think I can say any more than what the other reviewers have said, but take my word for it, this is one and very few good Elvis movies.