Vertical Limit VHS
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"Vertical Limit" is a Columbia Pictures mountain thriller from 2000, directed by Martin Campbell, and this is the original VHS release. Chris O'Donnell plays Peter Garrett, a climber who has to mount a rescue operation on K2 after an avalanche traps his sister and her team in a crevasse. Bill Paxton, Scott Glenn, and Robin Tunney round out the cast. It is a physical tape, not a stream, not a download. The kind of Saturday night rental that hit different when you had to rewind it before returning it.
Campbell came into "Vertical Limit" off two Bond films, "GoldenEye" in 1995 and then a gap year before "The Mask of Zorro" in 1998, so by 2000 he was a known quantity for high-budget action with location scope. Sony / Columbia put serious money into the K2 sequences, shooting on location in the Southern Alps of New Zealand and Pakistan, using real avalanche footage alongside practical effects that still hold up. The film arrived in December 2000, a holiday release slot that Columbia historically reserved for event pictures. It pulled over $215 million worldwide on a reported $75 million budget. The VHS version followed that theatrical run into the home market, which was still very much the dominant home-video format in late 2000 and early 2001 before DVD quietly took over the rental shelf within a year or two.
The last moment a studio action release could expect meaningful VHS sales alongside disc.
This copy carries the standard Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment clamshell sleeve with the peak photography cover art and the cast names printed across the top of the box spine. Pre-viewed sticker on the cassette body, which puts it in rental chain circulation, the kind of tape that went out on a Friday and came back Sunday night for a couple of years before ending up here. Pick it up and check the ribbon through the housing. It should sit flat with no bunching against the inside of the cassette.
OWNER VERIFY: Pre-viewed sticker placement and tape ribbon condition on the physical cassette.
The last moment a studio action release could expect meaningful VHS sales alongside disc.
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