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Dirty Work was speculated to be the film that may propel Saturday Night Live’s Norm MacDonald to film stardom. Sadly, it didn’t work out that approach, with the movie solely incomes a modest $10 million theatrically. One of the explanations the film tanked was that, on the eleventh hour, the studio pressured director Bob Saget (sure – THAT Bob Saget) to recut what had been deliberate as a raunchy R-rated comedy to a PG-13, far more mainstream effort. This was an enormous mistake as MacDonald wasn’t Adam Sandler, and this mean-spirited film about petty revenge and scheming was by no means meant to be a household flick.
Even nonetheless, regardless of the cutdown there have been nonetheless some fairly humorous scenes within the film, and when it hit VHS and cable, it turned a little bit of a cult hit. With each MacDonald and Saget having handed away, the nice people at Vinegar Syndrome have undertaken a large restoration of the movie, and have re-assembled the unique, unrated minimize and are releasing it to 4K Blu-ray Disc this June. The unrated minimize solely runs one minute longer than the theatrical minimize, but it surely apparently comprises quite a lot of alternate footage, as when Saget made the PG-13 model, he used quite a lot of alternate takes, jokes, and tame deleted footage for the minimize. Thus, the 2 variations are distinct. As a bonus, there’s additionally a 2-hour meeting minimize of the film being included, though it was sourced from the absolute best parts, which, on this case, is an previous VHS switch. This meeting minimize was by no means meant to be launched, so it’s being included as extra of a curiosity.
Here are the remainder of the extras (courtesy of our associates at Blu-Ray.com)
- THREE-DISC SET (4K BLU-RAY/TWO BLU-RAYS)
- NEW 4K RESTORATIONS OF THE THEATRICAL (82 MIN.) AND EXTENDED (83 MIN.) CUTS OF THE FILM
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- Commentary observe with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and Mike Hunchback (Theatrical Cut)
- Commentary observe with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and co-writer/actor Fred Wolf (Dirtier Cut)
- “Note to Self: Doing Dirty Work” (63 min) – a newly produced making-of documentary that includes interviews with the solid and crew
- “Hey Jim, It’s Norm” (19 min) – an interview with actor Jim Downey and co-writer Frank Sebastiano
- “The Last Word” (16 min) – an interview with co-writer Frank Sebastiano and co-writer/actor Fred Wolf
- Front Row” (9 min) – an interview with assistant director Alan Goluboff
- “Cutting Dirty Work” (6 min) – an interview with first assistant editor Ryan Folsey
- “Excuse Me” (8 min) – an interview with co-writer/actor Fred Wolf
- “Revenge for Hire” (9 min) – an interview with co-writer Frank Sebastiano
- “Face First” (7 min) – an interview with Norm’s stunt double Brian Jagersky
- “Fully Loaded” (8 min) – an interview with actor David Koechner
- “Nose Biter” (5 min) – an interview with actress Uni Park
- “Quicksand” (8 min) – an interview with actor Kevin Farley
- “Two Dollars” (11 min) – an interview with actor Jim Downey
- 2-hour Assembly Cut of Dirty Work (sourced from video)
- Alternate prolonged ending
- Original trailer
- 40-page excellent certain guide with essays by Dan Ozzi, John Dieringer, and Oscar Becher (Limited Edition Only)
- Reversible sleeve art work
- English SDH subtitles
Also, kudos to the label for making what most be essentially the most disgusting 4K Blu-ray cowl of all time:
UUUUURGH. Will you add this one to your shelf? Let us know within the feedback!