Nadine

I'm happy to see that this is available on DVD now. "Nadine" is on Encore currently so I got to see it again today. Predictable plot, but the two leads, Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, are two of America's best actors, seen here in relatively minor film. The main draw, for me, is Kim Basinger, who is **** adorable and sexy as Nadine.

The chemistry between the main characters is exciting. The plot is intriguing and action holds one's interest. The actors are easy on the eyes and the music is good. This is a movie I have never regretted spending a few hours to see.

My wife saw this movie on T.V. awhile back and thought it was funny and asked me if I ever ran across it on DVD to get a copy of it. I was looking for another DVD on Amazon when I saw the title and ordered one for my wife. She was very pleased!! Thanks for stocking such a variety of DVD's for us to choose from!!

This is the kind of movie that starts out with strikingly real characterizations--Nadine is herself quite a piece of work, Texas country simple but shrewd with a strong will--and an interesting premise, but doesn't maintain the excellence. Kim Basinger is gorgeous in the title role and natural. Jeff Brides plays her estranged husband Vernon Hightower who owns a bar in Austin, Texas circa 1954 that is not doing much in the way of business. He is one of those guys who dream of making it big financially in business as a proof of his manhood, a guy who has always just gotten by on his good looks, a guy who often lies and cuts corners and can't be trusted, but a guy with a smile to charm a rattlesnake. These two really love each other but are currently in the process of getting divorced and Vernon has a girl friend (Renee, played with eager finesse by Glenne Headly) that he wants to marry, he thinks. The plot begins with Nadine going to a photographer's studio and demanding to ge... Read more

Here's a flick about two idiots that get mixed up in a plot to defraud the state of Texas and, instead of winding up in jail, end up better off than when they started. Set in Texas in the mid-1950s, Kim Basinger is a pregnant hairdresser who happens onto plans to expand a superhighway through certain parts of town. She inadvertantly shares these certain moneymaking secrets with separated but not yet divorced husband Jeff Bridges, in one of his better roles, and ends up in a pickle with humorous bad guy Rip Torn and his idiotic assistants. Basically, the pair escape the police, bad guys, death, dishonor and everything else in a screwball comedy that will keep you glued to the screen with its action, plot and humor. This is Basinger's best early comedy besides "Blind Date". Bridges, who excelled in a similar nincompoop role as "The Great Lebowski", is here an idiot of the first order who nonetheless ends up being the hero and outduels the even more idiotic bad guys in something... Read more