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The Ref
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 4, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1994
  • Label: Walt Disney Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh72%

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Total Count: 54

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 26,986
...Gleeful irreverence, dark wit and cynicism....[Leary] is unexpectedly terrific....A grown-up film...
New York Times
Mar 9, 1994
A genuinely hysterical anti-holiday comedy. Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Dec 29, 2013
...The sharpest dialogue heard in a Hollywood flick since the heyday of Hecht and MacArthur....The performances are uniformly excellent... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 5, 1994
It's not just a Denis Leary vehicle. It's a real movie, with drama and grace and intelligence (and slapstick and drunk Santa gags and crude laughs). Full Review
Flavorwire
Jan 4, 2017
...Enthusiastically mean-spirited....It has as much fun being malicious as Snow White did being squeaky clean...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 9, 1994
The Ref works virtually none of the miracles of [Richard LaGravenese's screenplay for The Fisher King,] his previous mix 'n' match effort. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: 4/5 -- A film so bleak even Krampus had to watch "Elf" immediately afterwards to regain his Christmas spirit. Rude, loud, funny and (apart from the home invasion by a gun-toting jewellery thief bit), pretty realistic about families and the festive season. Full Review
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Dec 4, 2018

Product Description:

It's Christmas Eve and Gus, a cat burglar making the final heist of his career, trips the alarm system in a suburban home, forcing him to take the occupants hostage. Little does he know his Christmas is the one that's going to be ruined as he finds himself caught between a relentlessly bickering husband and wife and their fully dysfunctional family. As Gus soon discovers, there is no cure for rancor.

Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:

The Ref
Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he got more than he bargained for when the couple's blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they're driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences before he can be nabbed by the police.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 1,929
  • UPC: 786936208887
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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