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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302718928
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6302718929
Label: MGM
Manufacturer: MGM
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 8665
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1978
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Amazon.com:
Burt Reynolds directed and stars in this dark comedy, which suffers from diminishing returns the longer it goes on. He plays a fellow who discovers that he has a terminal illness and wants to spare himself and everyone he knows the seemingly unavoidable end of a painful malady. So he decides to kill himself. But he proves surprisingly inept at it and after several tries winds up in a mental hospital, where he meets a cheerfully homicidal inmate (Dom DeLuise). The suicide stuff was handled more imaginatively and with greater flair in Harold and Maude; the film has very few real jokes and only comes to life twice: when Burt tries to confess to an easily impressed young priest (Robby Benson) and when the lunatic DeLuise is onscreen. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great "SICK" humor
When ever I am down, and want to laugh, this one of the top 10 I play. Too many scenes, that are funny, to describe. Definitely should be in your collection.
Rating: - Still VERY funny
I remember my parent's taking my brother, sister, and I as kids to see this movie. (A LONG time ago)
I found it hilarious as a child, and watched it several times as an adolescent on cable. I ordered it because I remember Dom DeLuise being SO GREAT as Sonny's best INSANE friend trying to help him kill himself. Throughout the years my family has kept phrases from this movie alive. Such as "Your right Sonny, it's not high enough!" Or we mimic Burt at the end of the movie bargaining with God. ... Read More
Rating:  - "Fifty Percent. Lord! I'm Talking Gross."
In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Burt Reynolds was at the top of his game. His movies, while sometimes lacking in depth, were box office smashes. In between the two movies he starred-in that were directed by Hal Needham, "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hooper," he directed and starred in "The End," a black comedy that was inspired by his own touch with an extended illness.
This is a very funny movie in which Reynolds, as Sonny Lawson, a real estate broker who discovers he has a terminal ... Read More
Rating: - Pain Hurts me...
"I'm terrified of pain. Pain hurts me." Thus says Sonny (Burt Reynolds) to his sidekick the 'Polish Prince', in 'The End.' The sight gags and outlandish silliness in this movie are just the ticket for any baby boomer trying to come to grips with his or her own mortality. Dom Deluise is at his manic (maniacal?) best here. The movie takes a serious subject-death- and allows us to laugh at it. I highly recommend "The End."
Rating: - "P": IN YOUR PANTS FROM LAUGHING TIME!!!!!!
This IS one THE classics along with "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles," "Texas Across the River," and ALL of the hilarious older movies.
When you're feeling down, pop this in your DVD player or VHS player and brighten up your mood.
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302718928
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6302718929
Label: MGM
Manufacturer: MGM
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 8665
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1978