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Ninth Configuration (Ws)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304039564
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790727196
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 08, 1980
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Editorial Review:
The lunatics are running the asylum... but are they really lunatics? Is Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) really a noted psychiatrist, assigned to supervise patients in an experimental government clinic, or is he really "Killer" Kane, a decorated U.S. Marine who committed atrocities in Vietnam before going insane? And why did Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson) go berserk just seconds before a scheduled rocket launch? These are just some of the puzzles that will eventually be solved in The Ninth Configuration, a giddy and often brilliant drama created by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist before directing this adaptation of his own novel, Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane. A satirical study of war's traumatic aftermath, the film uses battle psychosis as the springboard for a delirious and scathingly intelligent human tragedy, laced with some of the wittiest dialogue you're ever likely to hear.
The movie boasts a veritable menagerie of crazy characters, all brought vividly to life by a stellar supporting cast. One patient is preparing a production of Shakespeare with an all-dog cast. Another is convinced he's Superman, and the resident doctor can't seem to find his trousers. But there's a method to this madness, and it takes a barroom brawl--one of the most memorable in movie history--to provide the harsh slap of reality to Blatty's elaborate group therapy scheme. When the true purpose of The Ninth Configuration is revealed, the film (and particularly the fine performances of Keach and Wilson) reveals a depth of compassionate sanity that may take you completely by surprise. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - In the trash
The vocals are not synchronized with the video. The visuals are a terrible blur. This old (1980) film needs to be deleted from supplier inventory....mine is in the trash can as toxic waste.........
Rating:  - "Does suffering make turkeys noble?"
"The Ninth Configuration" will be one of the most confusing, rich and absolutely bizarre films you've ever seen (if you do see it, which seems unlikely).
Based on William Peter Blatty's fairly confusing and average novel, he seems to work far better as a screenwriter than a novelist (with the exception, perhaps, of "The Exorcist") with a middleman to guide his otherworldly ideas into a more concrete and understandable cinematic form. Even still, this is one zany smorgasboard of a film: ... Read More
Rating:  - It's Difficult, But Rewarding
Someone loaned me a copy of this about 2 years ago. I finally watched it tonight. You can learn two things about me from this: 1. I have too much of a backlog of unwatched and unplayed stuff to get to anything quickly; and 2. Don't lend me anything you want to see back soon.
I can see some people not loving this movie. At first, it feels like a cross between M*A*S*H (complete with vets in drag a la Klinger) and Cuckoo's Nest. What looks like the original "mystery", whether the vets ... Read More
Rating: - A train wreck
I punished myself with the first stultifying hour of this pretentious dud until it felt as if my head were being squashed in a vise. It was bad within five minutes and I really tried to give it a chance, but the only thing profound about this stinker is how profoundly bad it really is. Boring, turgid, and ridiculous. The actors do a fine job considering what nonsense they are given to work with. I have a theory that all five star reviews of bad movies come from employees of the DVD industry. That ... Read More
Rating: - A LITTLE SEEN CLASSIC
Blatty's musings on God, life , death, faith and the inhumanties of man is an absolute knockout. The premise is doozy- the US military keeps all it's high profile nutcases (Colonels, Astronauts etc who've lost it )in a secluded high security looney bin. The new warden (Stacy Keach) soon proves he's maybe crazier than all of them and might even be a notorious homicidal maniac.
The acting is sensational, Keach has never been better as the coiled, barely keeping his demons at bay Col Kane, and Scott ... Read More
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