RAT PACK, THE (DVD)

Got this for our dad and he loves it! Loves this movie. Great gift

Love it. I've seen this movie before and kept hoping it would come up on TV again when I finally had a slap forehead moment. Duh! Buy it! I've watched it twice and shown it to my son. I like that it recreates an era so perfectly. The actors are marvelous in this film and Sammy Davis Junior gets the kudos he so deserved.

I really love this movie. I saw this HBO piece years ago. It is well done,(HBO productions always are) and entertaining. The information about The Rat Pack , seems very accurate . I was a little girl when the real Rat Pack was performing, who knows for sure? I recommend this "Bio" 100%.

Great actors portraying the Ratpack. They all become the people they are portraying this is a very well made movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I didn't know who Don Cheadle was until I saw this movie when it first came out on HBO. OMG! It was like watching the real Sammy in action. The walk. the talk, the dance moves, all of it. Kudos to all the other actors as well. Ray Liotta is so much fun as Sinatra. He really embodies the spirit of Sinatra. the whole cast is perfectly suited to each legend. Watch it. It's fun and the music is great!

Chris Dudley must be a famous movie maker, that's why he knows so much more about making films than the people who made this piece of terrific entertainment. Why, this film doesn't "focus" on how each one of them became famous. It spends too much time on Sinatra, when really we all wanted to see more of Peter Lawford. At least Dudley knows how to spell "non-sequitur" but either he doesn't understand it or doesn't get why the lyrics to the song "I'm Gonna Live" perfectly presage the extracts from the life of its singer, Frank Sinatra, we're about to see. Dudley doesn't want a movie, he wanted a 10-hour mini-series. What we got was fun and exciting, with several scenes you will remember forever (at least I will), not just because it's like you're watching the real history we never knew at the time, but because they are well played and paced. For example, the scene in a nightclub with Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio, and Jack and Bobby Kennedy sitting at a big table, with Judy Campbell (later to become Exner) sitting at a small table off to the side, with mobsters Johnny Roselli and Mickey Cohen over there, is extraordinary. The "High Hopes" number was great, and yes it did happen. The meeting between Joe Kennedy and Sinatra where the Kennedy clan patriarch directs Sinatra to ditch the blacklisted writer he had hired and to get his mob pals to help "win" the West Virginia primary is all the more powerful for being so brief. Frank's passionate argument with Ava showed how much two people who really love each other can hurt the other. How much more can you reasonably ask from a 2 hour TV movie, or indeed from any movie? I didn't see this until just the other day and I damn near stayed up all night just to watch it, and it takes something arresting to grab my attention and keep it that late at night when I really had no intention of seeing the sun come up.

I thought all the actors did a fine job of portraying the stars of the Rat Pack. Ray Liotta did a good job portraying Frank Sinatra as the movie was more about him than anyone else. It is nostalgic and a little negative about Frank and his temper. It was well done and I'd watch it again.

As I viewed this movie, I was struck by the brilliant timing and natural talents of the men involved in the famed "rat pack." As a devoted Kennedy Follower, I can easily see why JFK found their company stimulating and fun. It also portrayed the hideous racial tensions of the times, with Sammy Davis Jr. as the recipient of hate mail and death threats due to this marriage to a "white woman."If you want something nostalgic and achingly bittersweet funny, this is the movie for you.

Bellissimo film che ripercorre in maniera "easy" il periodo del rat pack in quell' america di metà anni 60 dove Sinatra e Dean Martin e Sammy Davis Jr facevano da padroni nello show business...

I had no idea this movie existed until recently. Great stuff. Good characterisations; you forget they're not the real people after a while.

a great tribute an fairly accurate account of the early 60s with Frank an the boys

Good

Great film. Great cast.