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Fishing with John, Vol. 2
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Product Details
- Starring: Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9780780022027
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0780022025
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- Label: Homevision
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- Manufacturer: Homevision
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Homevision
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- Release Date: 2000-06-06
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- Studio: Homevision
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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- Title: Fishing with John, Vol. 2
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- UPC: 037429135938
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Jazzman, sometimes actor, and hipster city-boy John Lurie knows nothing about fishing, which makes him the most unlikely host for a fishing show. But that hasn't stopped him from traveling around the world with his buddies to seek out a slice of paradise with pole in hand and camera crew in tow. In volume 2 of this strange and surreal series, Matt Dillon risks his life in a rickety flight to Costa Rica with John for a trip up the Rio Colorado, but not before a ritualistic dance under the supervision of their guide, Tacho. "No white man has ever been this far before," intones narrator Roy Webb with mock sincerity. "I think this is John's best show," he helpfully adds. Willem Dafoe takes charge for ice fishing in Maine, where the two construct their own plywood shelter against the winter ice and John wanders around bewildered on the snowy plain. As the days stretch on without a catch and the crackers and cheese run out, their survival is put on the line, or so insists narrator Webb. Lurie, who writes and produces the series, strikes a balance between the abstract and the absurd--you'll never learn a single tip about fishing, but in this company, that seems beside the point. --Sean Axmaker
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Customer Reviews
Laughing with the fish
These strange cable-TV show episodes showcase edgy actors, elusive fish, quirky dialogue, exotic locales, and John Lurie's unusual sense of humor and musical stylings. There is so much to admire and laugh at: the deadpan alpha male bonding stream of hyperconscious bantering, the faux pompous narration, the uber cool slacker sensibility, and the clever, unorthodox scripting and filming. Two humor highlights: the soaring vocals and helpfully subtitled inane lyrics accompanying a ritual "fish dance" in episode 3 and the ending of episode 4, in which the narrator gravely intones that the host and his guest have died of starvation.
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This is the kookiest of the series
These two episodes are the funniest one of the whole bunch. They really smooth out some of the tedium and have the most repeatable jokes. If you only buy one of these videos, this one is at the height of it's powers. Enjoy it and have a nice day.
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