Father Of The Bride VHS Tape
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"Father of the Bride" on VHS, released 1991 by Touchstone Pictures, is the Steve Martin family comedy that genuinely holds up as a time capsule of early-90s domestic cinema. Martin plays George Banks, a middle-aged dad blindsided by his daughter's engagement to a guy he barely knows, and the film rides that premise without cruelty. Touchstone was deep in its run of mid-budget crowd-pleasers by this point, and this one connected.
1991 was a busy year for studio comedy. "City Slickers" hit the same summer. "The Silence of the Lambs" was reshaping the awards conversation. Touchstone, operating as Disney's adult arm, had spent most of the late 1980s and early 1990s quietly building a catalog of films that weren't blockbusters but moved consistent numbers in the home-video market after theatrical. "Father of the Bride" fit that profile: a reliable domestic comedy built around a recognizable face, a high-concept premise that translates in a 30-second TV spot, and a tone soft enough for family viewing without being explicitly a children's film. It was a remake, pulling from the 1950 Spencer Tracy version, though the Martin version leaned harder into physical comedy and updated the cultural backdrop to a recognizable 1991 Southern California suburb. The film performed well enough to launch "Father of the Bride Part II" in 1995, which tells you the first one had real shelf life in the rental ecosystem.
Touchstone comfort viewing before streaming flattened the term into algorithm speak.
This copy comes in VHS format with the Touchstone label. The cassette shell and label art carry the original theatrical-era packaging design, which means the cover shot is the close-in tuxedo-and-bride image from the original marketing push. Condition on these early-90s Touchstone tapes varies; the tape window is the first thing to check. Ribbon should sit flat inside with no slack or bunching visible through the clear housing. If it's sitting clean, the tape is in good shape for play.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the Touchstone label on the cassette shell reads the original 1991 release credit, not a later reprint or rental-return resticker.
Touchstone comfort viewing before streaming flattened the term into algorithm speak.
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Before streaming flattened the difference between movies, VHS was a physical act. Rentals, buybacks, Blockbuster sleeves, promo tapes, ex-rentals with security stickers still on the side. 90s tapes outlived the stores they came from. We keep them in their original cases where possible and note every sticker, sun-fade, and sleeve crease in the photography.
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This father of the bride vhs tape originates from the 90s era[01], represents Touchstone[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
INSPECTED IN STORE / 707 E FREMONT, LAS VEGAS
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- 90s
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