American Gigolo with Richard Gere: DVD Cover

    American Gigolo Director: Paul Schrader Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/23/2000
    • Original Release: 1979
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 16,113

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    Widescreen version enhanced for 16x9 ; Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround; English Dolby Surround; French mono; English subtitles; Interactive menus; Scene selection; Theatrical trailer

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    Scene Index

    Scene Selection
    0. Scene Selection
    1. "Call Me" [3:25]
    2. Business Management [:15]
    3. The International Language [6:54]
    4. Palm Springs Trick [6:00]
    5. Leon [:45]
    6. Wardrobe [3:54]
    7. Michelle [2:28]
    8. Pre-Auction Viewing [:26]
    9. From This Bed [2:04]
    10. Detective Sunday [6:18]
    11. Mrs. Charles Stratton [2:17]
    12. Shoeshine [5:42]
    13. In A Frame [4:50]
    14. Out On A Limb [1:39]
    15. Line-Up [5:35]
    16. The Williams Mansion [4:37]
    17. Followed [:59]
    18. Country Club [3:14]
    19. Probe [:43]
    20. Garden Walk [2:51]
    21. Apartment Search [4:11]
    22. Jewels [:45]
    23. Rented Car [2:32]
    24. Perino's [2:43]
    25. The Fall [:34]
    26. Scandal [3:56]
    27. "It's taken so long..." [4:21]

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    Editorial Reviews

    A slick Los Angeles callboy finds love and redemption in Paul Schrader's ultra-stylish drama. High-living prostitute Julian Kay (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills' swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, older female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp (Bill Duke) and the trick turns up dead a short while later; Julian's actual client won't give him an alibi, and police detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) doesn't believe the gigolo's denials. The one person who can help him is frustrated politician's wife (and sole non-paying bedmate) Michelle (Lauren Hutton), if only Julian could let down his defenses and accept her gesture of love. Mixing his admiration for European art cinema with a voyeuristic view of the seamier side of sex and affluence, Schrader renders Julian an inscrutable, emotionally disengaged purveyor of pleasure, decked out in Giorgio Armani clothes coordinated with Ferdinando Scarfiotti's meticulous production design. Amid critical doubts about its artiness and distanced eroticism, American Gigolo surprised everyone by not dying on the box office vine. With some audiences reportedly showing up for repeat viewings of Gere's seductive charms, it became a moderate hit, turning Gere into a star and Armani into the new fashion sensation. Whatever reservations one may have about the movie, it provided two indelible images of 1980s decadence to come: Gere's perusing his "artist's palette" of shirts, ties, and jackets, and Gere's cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in his convertible to the New Wave strains of Blondie's "Call Me." Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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    December 24, 2003: I am biased, because anything with Richard Gere is a hit in my book. I loved the movie. Richard Gere has such sex appeal, Richard and Lauren Hutton clicked in this movie. I wish there were more movies with the pair.