VHS Extreme Measures
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"Extreme Measures" is a 1996 Columbia Pictures medical thriller on VHS, shrink-sealed, and sitting in the KIC inventory as one of the rarer Hugh Grant titles you will come across in original retail packaging. Grant plays an ER doctor. Gene Hackman plays the surgeon running the underground experiments. The film came out in the back half of 1996, produced by Grant's own Simian Films in partnership with Castle Rock Entertainment, and Columbia handled domestic distribution. That production triangle is printed right on the box.
1996 was a specific year for this kind of mid-budget studio thriller. "The Fugitive" had reset expectations for the genre three years earlier, and every major distributor was hunting the next procedural with a name above the title. Grant was coming off "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) and "Nine Months" (1995), and "Extreme Measures" was his calculated pivot away from romantic comedy. Hackman, by contrast, was operating at full output through the mid-90s: "The Firm" in 1993, "Crimson Tide" in 1995, "The Birdcage" in 1996, "Absolute Power" in 1997. Putting him opposite Grant as the antagonist was a real casting swing, and Columbia leaned into it for the marketing campaign. The theatrical run was modest, but the VHS release moved units on Hackman's name and the thriller-of-the-month shelf position in every Blockbuster and Hollywood Video through late 1996 and into 1997.
Factory-sealed Columbia thriller that never touched a rental shelf or a rewind bin.
This copy is shrink-sealed. The seal appears intact with no breaks or bubbles along the seam, and the cardboard box beneath shows no visible crush or water staining from the outside. The spine-facing art carries the Columbia torch logo and the film title in the period-accurate font used across the 1996 release run. Color on the cover art reads clean with no significant fade. One of one. Before you commit, run a finger along the shrink seam at the bottom edge of the box and confirm the seal hasn't been re-wrapped.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the shrink seal is factory-original and not a re-wrap by checking the bottom-edge seam for heat consistency.
Factory-sealed Columbia thriller that never touched a rental shelf or a rewind bin.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This vhs extreme measures originates from the 90s era[01], represents Columbia Pictures[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
- VENDOR
- Columbia Pictures
- ERA
- 90s
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