Mrs Doubtfire VHS
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Released by 20th Century Fox on VHS in 1993, this is that tape. Robin Williams at the full peak of his physical comedy, dressing as a Scottish nanny to stay close to his kids after a custody ruling and absolutely committing to every frame. Sally Field co-stars, Pierce Brosnan plays the foil, and director Chris Columbus keeps the thing from flying apart even when Williams is practically vibrating off the screen. One of the biggest Fox releases of that year, domestic or otherwise.
The 1993 season was a strange high-water mark for family comedy. "Home Alone 2" had just wrapped its theatrical run, "Groundhog Day" was in theaters the same season, and studios were in an arms race over which comedy could land the widest possible audience without losing the adults in the room. "Mrs. Doubtfire" cleared that bar by a wide margin. It opened at number one and stayed competitive for weeks. Williams was fresh off an Academy Award nomination for "The Fisher King" and had just done "Aladdin" the year before, so the commercial ceiling was already established. Fox knew what they had. The VHS release followed the theatrical run on a tight turnaround. Fox was aggressive about home video in the early nineties, and this tape moved. It also picked up the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) that same season, which is worth knowing when someone asks why this particular title keeps showing up in serious collections.
Four and a half hours of makeup every shoot day, one Golden Globe, one format that wore out from rewind.
This copy shows honest shelf wear on the clamshell, which is exactly what you expect from a tape that actually got watched. The shell itself is the standard Fox black clamshell format used throughout the early nineties. The tape inside should play clean. These Fox pressings from this period were built to last. If you are displaying it, the spine label is the visual anchor: it reads clearly and the Fox logo registration holds. Run your thumb along the spine edge and check whether the label has lifted at the corner. That is the first place these shells show their age, and it will tell you everything about how this copy was stored.
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Four and a half hours of makeup every shoot day, one Golden Globe, one format that wore out from rewind.
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This mrs doubtfire vhs originates from the 90s era[01], represents 20th Century Fox[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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