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Information
- Year
- 1982
- Runtime
- 105 min.
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 5.1
- Votes *
- 475
- Checks
- 41
- Favs
- 1
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 2.4% (1:41)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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monty
The Hollywood press publicized the behind-the-scenes battles on Lookin' to Get Out long before its release. When Ashby moved on, Lorimar cut the film without his input, and the film as released represented little of the director's original intention.
Twenty-five years later, Ashby biographer Nick Dawson told Lookin' star and co-writer Jon Voight about a longer cut of the film donated to the UCLA Film Archive for safekeeping. This "Extended Version" is a full fifteen minutes longer. The extra footage adds more than character scenes and detail; it's an alternate editorial version all the way through. Jon Voight: "Cut for cut it's a different picture. Every scene has been played with."
Had this version of Lookin' to Get Out been released in 1982, it could have been a special event in Hal Ashby's filmography. 8 years 2 months ago