| Out on a Limb [VHS] |  | Director: Robert Butler
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach
Studio: Anchor Bay
Category: Video
Buy New: $76.14
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 16018
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 3
Running Time: 235 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.3 x 3
ISBN: 6304113420
UPC: 092091127131
EAN: 9786304113424
ASIN: 6304113420
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1987
Release Date: May 22, 1996
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Shirley Charlemaign February 14, 2006
Kevin T. Feeney (Falls Church, VA United States)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Adam and Eve is at it again. Great movie that summarizes all that we know to be real and doesn't pull any punches or spon the insanity of reality.
Independent confirmation December 26, 2005
Fred Strauss (Outer Mongolia)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
For those who have already read this book: the girl "Mayan" who Shirley's friend David tells her about at the end of the book? Well ... it turns out David was not the only fellow to ever encounter her!! A young man named Ted Rice met a strange girl named "Maya" in Idaho, and just like she did to "David," Maya also taught Ted metaphysical information, showed him a UFO, and more similar things. For the story, read the book "Masquerade of Angels" by Karla Turner. It's available free at karlaturner.org.
Tremendous courage to show this on US TV! September 19, 2004
W. Christie
65 out of 76 found this review helpful
I've had OUT ON A LIMB on video tape since the original showing in 1987. Tonight for some reason I pulled it out to watch after an absence of at least 10 years (I have hundreds of video tapes so it was easy for this to recede into the darker corner of the closet).
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br /I am most amazed at Shirley's incredible courage (others might call it arrogance or gall) to present material that is so antagonistic to the mainstream middle American mind set. After watching this excellent time capsule of New Age Thought from the mid 1980's, I felt a wee bit sad, since I realize this mini-series could never be shown on network TV today! After decades of Republican rule and the subtle but merciless pressure of right wing Christian religion in the US, the beliefs that Shirley presented in this film are much MORE controversial today than they were back in the benignn 1980's. How dare she have an affair with a married man? How dare she claim to be God? How dare she hobnob with channelers who are in the hands of Satan? I can hear all the babble on TV and right wing talk radio if that poor woman were to try this today!
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br /Even if every concept presented in this film is false, it is a tremendously rewarding adventure.
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br /However, I do have to state that after this film was made, Shirley admitted on a talk show that the book/film are NOT literally true! She created composite characters like David to represent her spiritual research. So it might come down to her NOT having any personal metaphysical adventures at all outside the confines of her book reading, but she created such adventures, e.g., having an invisible alien drive a truck in Peru that she and the make-believe David were in, to jazz up the topic a bit. I think a lot of people lost faith in Shirley when she made the confession that her books are NOT literally true!
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br /Nonetheless, Kevin Ryerson is a trance channeler and is still out there charging $275 for a 90 minute consultation. Why go to law school when you can charge prices like that for your services?
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br /I may seem like a skeptic. Well, I am skeptical of some of the more cartoonish aspects of the so-called New Age. We have grown more jaded since 1987. However, there are underlying spiritual truths within the film/book that make it worthwhile, although this film/book certainly contains no revelations that cannot also be found in a bounty of spiritual oriented books on the market today.
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br /So in one sense, you may enjoy this film/book as a nostalgic throwback to a time when the New Age was "new", not the butt of comedians and the horror of fundamentalists. To call someone "new age" now is considered practically an insult, like calling someone a "liberal". That shows how reactionary and scared our culture has become since those heady times.
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br /Take time from worrying about terrorism and the fact that George Bush believes that his fundamentalist Old Testament God is telling the US to invade other countries. Pop OUT ON A LIMB into your VCR or read a copy of the book. It may make you wish you could time travel back to those exuberant times!
Entertaining, fun and enlightening. February 24, 2003
T. Hulse
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I watched the four hour version and felt it was time well spent.Good acting and a very good story. One of my better movie investments and a keeper for my collection.
LOVE, LIGHT, QUESTIONS.......ANSWERED ! October 8, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
With all my heart and soul, Shirley MacLaine, I love what you have done to help those of us who are searching for our spirituality! If you have questions, look out. You will have more and many answers will come your way while watching Out On A Limb. Everyone that I have recommended this movie to loves it.brI lost my 3-tape set to a house fire. Would like to find same. I have to say, the one tape version just isn't enough. Shirley MacLaine was there during my early search for spirit through her books. Her movie was a big help. It has opened many eyes to the truth...even my husband's. I loaned my set to a friend who thought six hours was too much. The following day he told me that he couldn't stop watching. He didn't get much sleep that night. Was so excited about the movie and had more questions. brWe love Out On A Limb. Don't be afraid to climb out there on that limb...so enlightening! Shirley MacLaine at her best and most of all...being herself! Thankyou Shirley for all you have done to help this soul find her way home. Chi Megwetch!
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