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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead [Blu-ray]
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The great Andy Garcia (Internal Affairs) heads an outstanding all-star cast in this wickedly sharp ’90s crime thriller. When a powerful mob boss (the legend Christopher Walken, King of New York) gives ex-gangster Jimmy the Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can’t refuse. But when someone gets killed, Jimmy and his partners are marked for death, leaving Jimmy just 48 hours to put things right for his buddies and the woman of his dreams (alluring Gabrielle Anwar, Scent of a Woman). Directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss the Girls) and written by Scott Rosenberg (Con Air), Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead delivers blackly comedic, edge-of-your-seat entertainment! With a killer ensemble cast that includes Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi and Fairuza Balk.
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DISC 1 (4KUHD):
• Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative | NEW Audio Commentary by Director Gary Fleder and Writer Scott Rosenberg | NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles
DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):
• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary by Director Gary Fleder and Writer Scott Rosenberg
• NEW Audio Commentary by Filmmaker/Historian Daniel Kremer
• Things to Direct in Denver When You're Dead: Interview with Director Gary Fleder (17:42)
• Things to Perform in Denver When You're Dead: Interview with Actor Andy Garcia (19:21)
• Things to Write in Denver When You're Dead: Interview with Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg (16:00)
• Things to Design in Denver When You're Dead: Interview with designer Nelson Coates (23:21)
• Production Featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• 5.1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Language : English
- Parcel Dimensions : 17.09 x 13.79 x 1.6 cm; 199.58 g
- Media Format : NTSC, 4K
- Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
- Release date : May 13 2025
- Actors : Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn
- Studio : Kl Studio Classics
- ASIN : B0DX3856PM
- Country of origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- 鶹 Rank: #9,697 in Movies & TV Shows (See Top 100 in Movies & TV Shows)
- #243 in Crime
- #1,218 in Thriller
- #1,650 in Comedy (Movies & TV Shows)
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- Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2021Verified PurchaseMy husband has been looking for this DVD for a long time. Finally I found it and he was so happy on Christmas! I purchased a used one and it was flawless.
- Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2017Verified PurchaseA1
- Reviewed in Canada on November 8, 2014Verified Purchase10 out of 10 great movie....full of stars and twists
- Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2000THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD is the highly stylized tale of doomed ex-mobster "Jimmy the Saint" Tosnia, played brilliantly by Andy Garcia, who is forced to perform one last job for his crippled, sadistic, former boss known as "The Man With The Plan"(Christopher Walken), so that Jimmy can save his failing business, "Afterlife Advice", a video service for dying customers who wish to leave behind pearls of wisdom for their progeny.
The job seems simple enough. The Man is convinced that the only salvation for his fat, dim-witted, child-molesting son Bernard is to re-unite him with his former girlfriend, who has run off to California with a hunkish wannabe orthodontist. But how to supplant the dental Adonis with pudgy psycho Bernard? "She loved him for six years, she can learn to love him again", reasons The Man. The Man has inside information that the orthodontist is driving back to Denver for the purpose of asking for his lover's hand in marriage and the plan is to intercept him on the highway. Jimmy's task is to convince the orthodontist by any means necessary that it would not be in his best interest to continue his love interest.
No job worth doing is worth doing alone, so Jimmy recruits his over-the-hill crew with the promise of 10K each. The wilted bunch includes "Franchise" (William Forsythe) now managing a trailer park for free rent, "Pieces" (Christopher Lloyd) eking out a living as a porn-house projectionist while his toes and fingers are falling off owing to circulatory problems, "Critical Bill" (Treat Williams) who stays in shape by pummeling the corpses at the funeral home he works in, and "Easy Wind" (Bill Nunn), who hates Critical Bill for his jailhouse antics involving fecal matter.
Naturally they botch the job and The Man With The Plan issues a collective death sentence known as "buckwheats", a euphemism for being shot in the rectal area, thus insuring a slow and painful death. Jimmy the Saint is given a reprieve from The Man as long as he leaves Denver within 48 hours. Eschewing the easy way out, however, Jimmy soon proves that he isn't called Jimmy the Saint for nothing.
The rest of the film is a dark, hauntingly poetic exercise in desperation as Jimmy attempts to save the lives of his crew, manage a doomed romance with new-found love Dagney (Gabrielle Anwan), right a wrong done to heart-of-gold hooker Lucinda (played deliciously by Fairuza Balk), and finally to settle accounts with The Man.
THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD has so many linguistic and visual gems it is difficult to give them adequate acknowledgment in this space, but you'll soon be adding pithy phrases such as "Boat drinks" and "Give it a name" to spice up your language. In another clever device, Jack Warden as a former wise guy and Bill Cobbs as a soda jerk are wonderful as the muses who provide the narrative glue throughout the film while holding court for the curious each day in a Denver malt shop.
It's not a perfect film, but it's a damn good one with numerous outstanding performances, memorable characters, and a highly original, well-conceived, well-written story that has not received the acclaim it deserves.
- Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2002Jimmy "The Saint" played by the handsome and talented Andy Garcia, is a former mob associate gone almost straight. That is, until he owes former boss Christopher Walken, now a cripple in a wheelchair, one last favor. ............... Walken has a son Bernard, who has become a pedophile. After attacking a little girl who reminds him of his ex-girlfriend Meg, Walken decides that the only cure for his sons derangement, is to get Meg back. Since Meg left Bernard for a dental student, Walken recruits Jimmy to "scare" the new boyfriend into leaving, thus giving Bernard a second chance with Meg. After Jimmy agrees to do it, not having a choice, he recruits four old pals to assist him. Unfortunately for Jimmy, their incompetence, stupidity, and insanity irrevocably wrecks the plan and puts all five men on Walkens "Hit Parade". .............. This is a very unusual story, and wonderfully entertaining as well. Andy Garcia as Jimmy, is a sympathetic character. You feel his warmth and caring. His romance with young Dagney (Gabrielle Anwar) is at once wholesome and sexy. I particularly liked how Jimmy puts into words, the feeling a woman has for a man who excites her. "Does he make you THUMP?" Jimmy asks after Dagney says she's otherwise involved when first meeting Jimmy. After winning her over, Jimmy has to "give her back to the others" because he knows the end is near. ................. Fairuza Balk has a meaty, but peripheral role as a prostitute who Jimmy takes a fatherly interest in. In the end, she immortalizes Jimmy with a love child. ................. While the film is very well done, I can't understand why Jimmy picks four completely incompetent ex-cons to "Aid" his operation for Walken. The request seems simple enough, but is executed, literally, by inept and insane buddies of Jimmy, instead of Jimmy doing the job by himself. Treat Williams turns in a sick, yet hilarious performance as "Critical Bill", he always leaves his opponents in that condition, hence the nickname. He lives among corpses, and uses them for punching bags. "He don't mind much..." he tells Jimmy who witnesses his "stiff" workout schedule. It's hard to believe that anyone would entrust someone like this to be of help, not to mention the rest of the crew, Christopher Lloyd, a leper porn house manager, and William Forsythe, a trailer park biker. It is certainly proved herein, if you want a job done right, do it yourself. I suppose if Jimmy did that, the plot wouldn't have been nearly as entertaining. ................ Like in the movie "Suicide Kings", Christopher Walken is quite effective confined to a chair, only using his head once again, to express himself. He makes fun of Jimmy's "Afterlife Advice" video business where the dead can speak to their loved ones through pre-recorded tapes. He reminds Jimmy of the past, and how he owes him this last favor. ................ Other characters to enjoy, Jack Warden, an icecream parlor denizen who tells us the story in a sporadic narration, and Steve Buscemi as the hitman who comes to clean up the mess for Walken. He employs the "Buckwheats" method, namely, the bullets go where the sun don't shine. This is done for a particularly agonizing demise. ................ I've watched this film several times, and will watch it again. The roles are strongly portrayed by all, and like I always say, if it's quality, you care about the characters. This is a film not to be missed, especially if you admire the work of Andy Garcia and Christopher Walken.
- Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2012This is one of the most cleverly written movies, with an awesome cast.
Treat Williams is out of this world!
- Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2018Verified PurchaseI believe I was sent a European DVD which will not play in my DVD player.
- Reviewed in Canada on March 7, 2004I'm more than a little ashamed to admit that it took me 9 years to get around to seeing this movie. And I consider myself a lover of this type of pic. I just had a hard time coming across it in the usual retail outlets. But, alas I find the movie and I have to say it's just great....Sure, the dialogue does try to force feed some one liners and catchphrases at you..."Boat Drinks" and "Buckwheats" being just a couple...If you can somehow avoid cringing everytime they are less than smoothly inserted into the conversations, all the better. Andy Garcia does a good job of giving this movie an emotional and moral core, as the man straddling the line between good and evil, his past and his future all at once. Treat Williams gives an astounding performance as a complete loon. All in all everyone does well here. One must question the wisdom of Garcia's character allowing the oldest and the most unstable of the crew to perform the most demanding part of their seemingly simple task. Garcia himself and Winn would have been much better in that instance. O well, quibble I must, but I suppose if more capable hands (no pun intended) had done the job, this would have been a rather short movie.. But it's a great movie nonethe less. Flashes of brilliance, even.
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jorge riaño isidroReviewed in Spain on May 11, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Buena película poco conocida
Verified PurchaseBuenas película con grandes personajes y diálogos