Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Warner Home Video:
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Burbank, Calif., March 15, 2010 – Warner Home Video (WHV) today
announced that it is bringing back “the shack†on June 8 on Blu-ray DiscTM.
Just in time for Father’s Day, tour the grounds of the exclusive Bushwood
Country Club like never before, as the screen’s most notorious gopher chews its
way onto stunning Blu-ray for the first time ever.
30 years ago, the game of golf was redefined when Chevy Chase, Rodney
Dangerfield, Bill Murray and Ted Knight took to the fairways of Bushwood
Country Club. When Caddyshackhits
Blu-ray, fans will see the riotous hole-in-one comedy like never before. The fairways
will be greener. The golf balls whiter. The gopher…err…fuzzier. The Blu-ray
will contain an all new, feature-length Bio documentary, Caddyshack: The
Inside Story (90 min), which includes new interviews with producers and
stars about the making of Caddyshack.
The Blu-ray will also include all of the special features from the original standard
definition version: Caddyshack: The 19th
Hole (37 min), a retrospective documentary featuring hilarious outtakes,
rare footage and interviews with stars Chevy Chase and Cindy Morgan, producers
Jon Peters and Mark Canton, and director Harold Ramis, along with other cast
and creative team members recalling their on-set experiences; and the theatrical
trailer.
The standard
definition DVD has been updated
with new 5.1 audio and contains special features: Caddyshack: The 19th
Hole and the theatrical trailer. The film will also be available day and
date on Video on Demand from cable and satellite providers and for electronic
download from online retailers.Â
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Among AFI’s Top 100 for “Funniest and Best Quotesâ€
and Top 10 for “Best Sports Movies,†the inspiration for the madcap milieu of Caddyshack
is the boyhood experiences of writer Brian Doyle-Murray and his kid brother
Bill Murray. Brian was a caddy at Indian Hills, outside Chicago, and Bill was
an assistant groundskeeper for the Evanston Country Club in Indiana.
On June 8, relive
the epic battle of the snobs versus the slobs and get
closer than ever to the once-in-a-lifetime cast, starring ‘80s “Saturday
Night
Live†favorites Chevy Chase and Bill Murray and more:
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Chevy
Chase as playboy Ty Webb, the
club’s resident Romeo and
zen golfer who practices uncanny trick shots from daybreak ‘til dark,
but never
plays against anyone.
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Bill
Murray as the insane
groundskeeper Carl, who dressed in a
battered old hat, soiled T-shirt and filthy fatigues from some long-ago
war,
wanders the Bushwood fairways pursuing a mischievous gopher with a fire
hose, a
sniperscope and a cache of high explosives.
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Ted
Knight as Judge Smails, the
arrogant stuffed shirt who
runs Bushwood like a feudal fiefdom.
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Rodney
Dangerfield as Al Czervik,
the nouveau
riche land-developer who gate-crashes the snooty country club - armed
with an
arsenal of grandiose golf gear, including a putter outfitted with a
Norden
bombsight. The film helped boost Rodney Dangerfield’s film career.
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Cindy
Morgan as Lacey Underall,
makes her film debut as Judge
Smail’s provocative niece, whose upper-crust charm pops up to toasty
perfection
the instant anyone pushes her button.
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Synopsis
Greenskeeper Carl
Spackler is about to start World
War III – against a gopher.
Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall
wants to
score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming
the
ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet
on a
10-foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack.
Chevy Chase, Rodney
Dangerfield, Bill Murray and
Ted Knight tee off for a side-splitting round of fairway foolishness
that does
for golf what National Lampoon’s Animal House did for
fraternities and Police
Academy did for law enforcement. With Harold Ramis directing, the
virtuoso
skills of all four blend into a riotous hole-in-one for comedy fans.