Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

Director: Christopher Guest
Actors: Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin, William Windom, Frances Fisher, Cristi Conaway
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
Sales Rank: 47277

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: HBOD90972D
ISBN: 0783120184
UPC: 026359097225
EAN: 9780783120188

Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1993
Release Date: April 2, 2002
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3 out of 5 stars Don't Get Nancy Upset    December 27, 2008
Michael Patrick Boyd (Waukesha, WI)
The Attack of 50 Ft. Woman is one hour and thirty minutes long and was release on HBO in 1993. This movie basically has the same story (more or less) then the the original did. Main differences are: this is color (oringinal is black and white) it is longer by twenty-four minutes, there is the demanding father, and there is a therapist in this one. Gone is the butler. Nancy is driving home and a flying saucer zaps her with a beam of light. When she trys to tell the sheriff. When Nancy and Harry go out looking for the flying saucer, she is beamed up into the craft. Nancy is finally home and Harry and Nancy's father start to argue; that makes Namcy angry and she begins to grow. It is found out when ever she is angry she grows. In the end, Nancy is rescued by the spaceship that made her big and she is joined by two other tall women. Harry is put in a container with two other men (who are trying to help Harry). Looks like Harry is not to be released until he is more kind to Nancy. The special effect are better then the original; even though it is a low budget movie. It is still a good movie to rent or own.


4 out of 5 stars Attack of the 50 ft woman    January 20, 2007
Ronald E. Kenny
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Good movie,my wife wanted it but I also thought it was entertaining.


2 out of 5 stars Attack of the 50 Ft. PMS Woman    January 11, 2007
Cedar Bay Press LLC (Portland, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Not as good as the original but at least it is in color! This was not one of Daryl Hannah's finest moment. Some of the special effects were laughable especially the miniaturization of the city. Over all, the cast wasn't that good. However, if remakes of old classics are your bag this might be for you. Now we wait for the Wasp Woman to be remade!


5 out of 5 stars Good movie    November 4, 2006
Ronaldo S. Kondo
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a interesting movie. It has a feminist message, and it can make you think a little bit. I do not liked the end of the movie however; If Harry does not love her (the 50ft woman), there is no reason to kidnap him. He does not deserve a 'happy end', but to force him to do something that he does not want to do... well I think that it is not the right thing to do.


4 out of 5 stars Daryl Hannah finally hits the big time in this HBO remake    February 9, 2003
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

"Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" finds Daryl Hannah in the titular role of this HBO remake of the 1958 exploitation cult classic. Director Christopher Guest goes whole heartedly for a retro Fifties look in this 1993 which tries to take the best parts (so to speak) of the original and enlarge the rest into a feminist allegory. Once again the story is about poor little heiress Nancy Archer (Hannah), who has been abused all of her life by men from her father, Hamilton Cobb (William Windom) to her swarmy husband, Harry (Daniel Baldwin), who is devoting his limited attention to local bad girl, Honey Parker (Cristi Conaway). Out driving around in the desert to relieve her sexual frustration, Nancy encounters a flying saucer that zaps her, thereby starting the growth process that will level off at the 50 ft. level (note: the original is "Foot" but the remake is "Ft."). The teleplay by Joseph Dougherty (who did his first script for "thirtysomething") borrows as much from "The Feminist Manifesto" as it does from "King Kong." What becomes important is that not even the U.S. military is going to stop Nancy from getting some much needed attention from hubby Harry. Sure, she could do a lot better than Harry, but that is not suppose to be the final payoff of this little feminine fantasy.

This remake does not have the same sort of tacky charm that makes the original so compelling. But there is still the great unanswered question from both of these films as to how the giant woman's underwear manages to keep up with her growth spurt. Daryl Hannah is a lot angrier than Allison Hayes was in the original, and it was the latter's decided sense of disinterest during the final rampage (along with the cloth bikini) that made it one of the enduring images of Fifties science fiction. Ultimately, this is more Guest's film as director, because the entire art direction and visual style of the film is as much a homage to the genre in the Fifties as the original storyline. The remake does not stand alone because there is too much that works off of the original to allow that to happen, so you have to have seen the 1958 version to fully appreciation this one. The main thing is that "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" does not take itself seriously, and that makes up for a lot of the film's shortcomings.