Used Cars [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Zemeckis Robert Zemeckis

Overview

Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Warden, who schemes to take over the "good" brother's lot. After a series of raunchy vignettes, the film boils down to an every-man-for-himself price war between the two Wardens, which rages on even after we're one Warden short. The supporting cast of Used Cars is populated by such reliables as David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Al Lewis, Dub Taylor, Dick Miller and Betty Thomas.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/26/2019
UPC:	0826663195620
Original Release:	1980
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:53:00
Sales rank:	5,440

Special Features

NEW interview with producer/co-writer Bob Gale; Commentary by director/Co-writer Robert Zemeckis, producer/co-writer Bob Gale, and actor Kurt Russell; Outtakes; Radio interviews and spots; Theatrical trailer; Photo galleries; And more...

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jack Warden	Roy L. Fuchs/Luke Fuchs
Kurt Russell	Rudy Russo
Gerrit Graham	Jeff
Frank McRae	Jim, the Mechanic
Deborah Harmon	Barbara Fuchs
Joe Flaherty	Sam Slaton
David L. Lander	Freddie Paris,Actor
Michael McKean	Eddie Winslow
Michael Talbott	Mickey
Harry Northrup	Carmine
Alfonso Arau	Manuel
Al Lewis	Judge Harrison
Woodrow Parfrey	Mr. Chertner
Andrew Duncan	Charlie
Dub Taylor	Tucker
Claude Earl Jones	Al
Dan Barrows	Stanley Dewoski
Cheryl Rixon	Margaret
Marc McClure	Heavy Duty Dubois
Susan Donovan	Charlie's Wife
Don Ruskin	Fuchs' Salesman
Jan Sandwich	Al's Wife
Tracy Lee Rowe	Al's Kid
Kurtis Epper Sanders	Al's Kid
Clint Lilley	Al's Kid
Patrick McMorrow	Mr. O'Hara
Joseph Barnaba	Mr. Douglas
Diane Hill	Mrs. Douglas
Dick Miller	Man In Bed
Rita Taggart	Woman In Bed
Dave Herrera	Mr. Lopez
Walter Jackson	Mr. Jackson
Gene Blakely	Mr. Books
Betty Thomas	Bunny
Russ Fega	Bus Boy
Tiny Wells	Food Giant
Allen Wood	Bailiff
John Abbott	Clem
Sam Ingraffia	Court Assistant
Wendie Sperber	Nervous Nona
Terence Knox	Roose
Dave Adams	Video Technician
Sandy Gibbons	Cop at Roadblock
Mildred Brion	Little Old Lady
Patrick Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Robert Zemeckis

Bob Gale

Robert Zemeckis	Director,Screenwriter
Allan Bromberg	Sound Effects
Bob Gale	Screenwriter,Producer
Terry J. Leonard	Stunts
Terry Leonard	Stunts
John Milius	Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg	Producer,Executive Producer
Sally Dennison	Casting

Editorial Reviews

Director/writer Robert Zemeckis works with much of the same team that contributed to Steven Spielberg's bloated bomb 1941 and Zemeckis' own charming and wacky directorial debut I Wanna Hold Your Hand to produceUsed Cars, a low-brow comedy boasting easy targets (used car salesmen) and irresistibly attractive cruelty. The film's incessant assault on its characters and their perverse quest for the American Holy Grail (money and power) has the pacing and energy of a 1930's zany screwball comedy, but is much darker in spirit. Kurt Russell, in a stunning break from his youthful Disney roles, epitomizes the archetypal unscrupulous salesman who will stop at nothing to rip off his customers and crush the competition. The entire cast, many of whom were plucked from such 1960's and '70's schlock as The Munsters, Laverne and Shirley, and The Gong Show, appear to be enjoying themselves immensely as they cavort through this ridiculously obnoxious material. The anger at the heart of the humor, as well as the broadness (some say tastelessness) of the comedy combined to limit the film's audience. Zemeckis, however, was able to springboard from Used Cars to the kinder, gentler Indiana Jones homage Romancing the Stone, the wildly successful Back to the Future trilogy, and, eventually, to the Oscar-winning Forrest Gump.

All Movie Guide - Dan Jardine