WSR Detailed LaserDisc Review

My New Gun
Genre:Comedy

Reviewed In Issue 06 Of Widescreen Review® Stars:
Diane Lane, James LeGRos, Tess Harper, Stephen Collins, Bruce Altman.

WSR Review Scores
Picture Rating: 3
Sound Rating: 3.5
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DVD General Information
(Studio/Distributor): Columbia/TriStar Home Video
(Catalog Number): 93436
(MPAA Rating): R
(Retail Price): $34.95
(Running Time In Minutes): 99
(Color Type): Color
(Chaptered/Scene Access): Yes
(Closed Captioned): No
(Theatrical Release): 1992
(LD Release Date): 10/01/93
(THX® Digitally Mastered): No

Credits Information
(Director): Stacy Cochran
(Screenplay/Written By): Stacy Cochran
(Story): NA
(Music): Pat Irwin
(Director Of Photography):
(Production Designer): Toby Corbett
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(Editor): Camilla Toniolo
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(Executive Producers): Miles A. Copeland III, Paul Colichman & Harold Welb
(Co-Producers): Lydia Dean Pilcher
(Producers): Michael Flynn

DVD Picture Information
(Principal Photography): Academy Standard Flat
(Theatrical Aspect Ratio): 1.85:1
(Measured LaserDisc Aspect Ratio): 1.75:1

DVD Sound Information
(DVD Soundtrack): Dolby Surround
(Theatrical Sound): Dolby Stereo A
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WSR Narrative Review
Story Synopsis:
My New Gun is an unusual wry comedy about suburban paranoia and affairs. It is about impulses that aim to protect yet become distorted in reality. Protection-minded Dr. Gerald Bender (Stephen Collins) wants his wife Debbie (Diane Lane) to have a gun for protection when he’s away from home. But Debbie doesn’t want a gun because they are dangerous. Her friend and neighbor, Skippy (James LeGros) offers to take the gun unbeknownst to her husband. In Debbie’s ensuing effort to retrieve the weapon, friends and loved ones are shot, poisoned, stabbed, and beaten, all this between affairs, divorces and marriages.

LaserDisc Picture:
This transfer is red-shifted and color balance is inconsistent. Most scenes, both interior and exterior look pale and soft, almost faded with a tint of a haze. The image is rarely crisp. The matted aspect ratio is 1.75:1.

LaserDisc Soundtrack:
Another Dolby Surround® billed with surrounds that are too subtle resulting in a very monoish perspective at the screen channels. Dialogue, however, sounds very natural.
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