Heavy

UPC: 043396599697

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity]

Summary: This character drama, set in a local pub in rural New York State, focuses on the lives, thoughts, and emotions of a group of social outcasts. The lead misfit is Victor, a shy and very rotund man in his '30s who works as a pizza maker in a roadside inn. His mother, Dolly owns the establishment. She dominates his life. The senior waitress there is Dolores, an aging woman with a reputation for being easy. Dolores is resentful when Dolly hires the vivacious teenager Callie, who is in love with Jeff, a garage mechanic. Victor develops a painful crush on Callie and fantasizes about rescuing her from a life with Jeff. To help himself, he begins to diet and enrolls at a chef school. His mother becomes suddenly ill. Then Delores makes a pass at him, but he doesn't respond. He does however, feel emboldened to make a play for Callie. His actions lead him into a new world of expression. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sundance Film Festival

Features: Interactive features
Languages: English 2-channel Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Theatrical trailer
Scene selections
Director's commentary

Heavy

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 09/21/1999

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Alternate Wide Screen

Audio: DDS2.0 Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels

Runtime: 104 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1
0. scene SELECTIONS
1. Start [:29]
2. Pete & Dolly's [4:00]
3. First Night [1:27]
4. Closing Time [7:07]
5. Jeff [4:40]
6. Pete [1:57]
7. A Really Great Chef [1:56]
8. Bad Reputation [2:42]
9. The Garage [1:20]
10. Picture Pincher [2:37]
11. Photo Review [1:48]
12. "I'm Fat!" [1:52]
13. Thinking Thin [1:00]
14. Rescue Fantasy [2:33]
15. Dolly Collapses [3:15]
16. Home Alone [3:24]
17. Hospital Visit [1:45]
18. Yankee Fans [3:51]
19. Empty Room [4:11]
20. "How's Dolly?" [2:55]
21. Saving Himself [3:28]
22. The Culinary Institute [3:04]
23. Lovers' Spat [5:42]
24. A Ride Home [10:42]
25. Callie Visits Dolly [4:15]
26. "What's Going On?" [6:40]
27. Callie Quits [8:57]
28. Darlene [6:26]

Karl Williams

The gloomy surroundings, somber tone, and languid pace ultimately become wearying, but this romantic drama from writer/director James Mangold hailed the arrival of an interesting, provocative artist to join the mid-'90s wave of talented indie newcomers that also included Todd Solondz, David O. Russell, and Paul Thomas Anderson. Mangold draws powerful performances from his cast, particularly lead Pruitt Taylor Vince, a respected character actor who carries the film on his sad-sack shoulders with varying degrees of palpable fear, pain, and hope. Vince is complemented by the willowy Liv Tyler in one of her first, star-making parts, and especially by the revelatory Debbie Harry as a waitress bruised by life -- promiscuous, envious, and still harboring a flickering scrap of romantic hope. If Mangold can learn to forgo the turgid pacing and overweening sense of doomed portent that hangs like a noxious cloud over this film and his subsequent, underrated Cop Land (1997), he may become one of the finest actor's directors of his cinematic freshman class. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Cordis Heard  Actor 
J.C. MacKenzie  Actor 
Marian Quinn  Actor 
David Patrick Kelly  Actor 
James Mangold  Director 
James Mangold  Screenwriter 
Richard Miller  Producer 
Herbert Beigel  Executive Producer 
Gretchen McGowan  Producer 
Jan Mclaughlin  Composer (Music Score) 
Thurston Moore  Composer (Music Score) 
Pruitt Taylor Vince  Actor 
Liv Tyler  Actor 
Shelley Winters  Actor 
Deborah Harry  Actor 
Joe Grifasi  Actor 
Evan Dando  Actor 

Country: USA