8 Seconds [VHS]

8 Seconds [VHS]
by John G. Avildsen

8 Seconds [VHS]

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Actor: Cameron Finley, Carrie Snodgress, Clyde Frost, Dustin Mayfield, James Rebhorn
Director: John G. Avildsen
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 104 minutes
Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Studio: New Line Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of 8 Seconds [VHS]

Movie Review: A beautiful love story and a true story about a real cowboy
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a beautiful love story and true story about a real cowboy. It's excitement, entertainment, romance and rodeo, told about the life of a real person, with drive and commitment in life and in love, a real cowboy, a true story. You will be glued to your seat when you watch this movie, it's packed with excitement, love, romance and rodeo. A story about an honest and sincere man with affection and dedication who is polite and caring and has respect for others. This movie is a true story and a rare find in home movies. It's a down to earth movie with true life experiences that everyone can relate with. This is a movie the whole family can enjoy. A movie for all age groups. A touching true story that will stay in your heart, of a man who is honest and speaks from his heart to everyone he meets. This is a movie you will keep and treasure in your video library and will watch often.

Movie Review: A Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars

If you're into rodeo, and know the story behind this film, then I need say no more. It's great and worth watching over and over.

Movie Review: Legend before his time
Summary: 4 Stars

I recommend this movie for anybody into bullriding, rodeo, or into a good story about a good ol boy with a big heart that left this earth way before his time.

Movie Review: A B movie but not by design?
Summary: 2 Stars

Hey, the stunts are very well done, but nobody is going to believe Luke Perry is a bull-rider as he is just too weak and puny?
The two main actors are just very bad and unbelievable as is the script in a lot of places. Cynthia Geary doesn't look like she could ride a golf cart without falling off,m let alone a quarter horse?
The actual best actor in this movie is Steven Baldwin, the character actor,
best friend of Lane Frost. The director should have "Cowboy-ed up".
At least we see that Lane Frost died doing what he loved.
I've lived in a Rodeo town most of my life:
the real cowboys are both tough and strong.

Movie Review: Cowboy Up!
Summary: 4 Stars

I never saw this in the theaters and never really thought I would watch it on DVD since the two main stars are Luke Perry and Stephen Baldwin. But a few years ago I was fiending for some country type movies and decided to give this one a chance. When the movie was over and the credits were rolling I was pretty much in shock of how good the movie was... especially since it was a true story.

Luke Perry plays Lane Frost in this true tale of a champion. Lane begins riding bulls at a young age (actually sheep at that young of an age) and as he gets older, just continues what he loves to do and makes it his profession. Living the dream. That right there is just amazing to me, because there are very few out there who are doing exactly what they want to do. But not only is he living the dream, but he's really good at it. Also he has 2 really good friends who travel with him and also compete with him. One of the friends, Tuff, is played by Stephen Baldwin. Baldwin isn't too bad in this role, but I still think they could've picked a bum off the road and he would've been better. And then Lane, during one of the meets, comes across his future wife Kellie, played by the ever so boring Cynthia Geary.

8 Seconds has some great moments in it and some really funny moments also. I cracked up when Lane brings a really bad trailer home for Kellie... as an actual house for her. She's thinking it's a joke, and he really thought she'd be ok with it. Well... maybe it's funny to me since I know people like that back in Georgia... lol. There are also some really slow parts to and it's mainly cause of some of the acting. Sometimes you'd think you should be watching a romantic part or a good story telling part, and Cynthia or Stephen would just ruin it cause there acting is crap.

When the credits were running, I sat there and thought to myself, "Man this guy had a crazy good life even if it was ended to soon."Sure he wasn't perfect. He had major daddy issues, he cheated some, and he was barely home (cause he was out making the money). That doesn't hurt the fact though that he tried really hard to make everyone happy. Maybe to hard for his dad. But he was always there for his fans and a really good role model for the kids. And he tried very hard to give everything he could to Kellie (even though he wasn't always faithful). And you really can't help but smile at the end while they show real pictures and clips of Lane. He was always smiling and you could see how much fun he was always having.

Man this movie really made me miss home. I gotta find me a rodeo to go to sometime here in Vegas.

In the end I would say this movie might feel like a Hallmark movie, but it was a lot of fun at some points. Definitely give it a try.

P.S. - I met Stephen Baldwin once back in 1999. I went to a Wal-Mart back in Tucson one night for some super glue and was walking to the check out counters when I saw a guy dressed in all black and wearing a black Kangol hat. I looked at him and thought to myself, I know this dude... but... from... where...? And then I thought, "HIGHSCHOOL!" So since he was seriously just standing around and hanging out at the check out counters I went up to him and said, "Dude did you go to Northside High School back in Georgia?" He said, "Nope." So I walked away totally confused of how I knew this guy. Then I asked someone in the check out aisle who he was and she said, "I can't remember his name but that's the Bio Dome guy." "Ahhhh... now I remember." And then I went home with my glue and a fun story.

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Summary of 8 Seconds [VHS]

The title refers to the time required by all rodeo cowboys to stay on a bull if they want a judge's score. For them, such a short time can seem like an eternity. The same is true of the beginning of this true story, a country tale of Lane Frost, a real-life, crowd-pleasing bullrider who rose to rodeo fame in the late '80s. The characters seem so irrepressibly good, so unreal, that the film comes out of the chute without a buck or much of a purpose. But Frost's story, and that of his relationship with his wife, Kellie (Cynthia Geary), eventually gains momentum. Luke Perry is an underrated actor, and he balances an "aw-shucks-ness" with an internal spark that makes that salt-of-the-earth stuff not so salty. When the film is finally over and the end credits show home movies and stills of the real-life Frost, you'll wish the ride was just a little longer. --Keith Simanton

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