Search - Big Momma's House [Fullscreen Special Edition] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Scatological Humor, Slapstick Violence, Suitable for Teens Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 05/21/2002 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Total Copies: 7 Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Comedy of Errors, Police Comedy See Also: Big Momma's House [Widescreen Special Edition], Big Momma's House [Fullscreen], Big Momma's House [Widescreen]

In this comedy, a cop assumes a new identity in his valiant battle against crime: an elderly grandmother! Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is an FBI agent who is a master of disguise and will stop at nothing to get his man. When a bank robber escapes from prison and goes on a violent crime spree, Malcolm is assigned to bring him in. The thief's girlfriend Sherry (Nia Long), who is also the mother of his child, lives in a small Southern town, and Malcolm plans to set up a stake-out in the house across the street from Sherry's. However, the house is owned by Big Momma (Ella Mitchell), an older woman with a sharp tongue and no patience for back talk, and when Big Momma has to leave town, it leaves her house suspiciously empty. Determined to maintain his cover, Malcolm disguises himself as Big Momma, and now has to convince Sherry (and everyone else in the neighborhood) that Big Momma's still in town. Big Momma's House gained considerable pre-production publicity when Lawrence fell into a coma while jogging in a heat wave before the film's start date; Lawrence claimed that he was trying to lose weight to fit more comfortably into his character's "fat suit." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Martin Lawrence - Malcolm Turner
Nia Long - Sherry
Paul Giamatti - John
Terrence Howard - Lester
Anthony Anderson - Nolan

Raja Gosnell's crossdressing comedy Big Momma's House comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by the director, deleted scenes with optional commentary, bloopers, a featurette, snippets from makeup tests, trailers, television commercials, and a featurette on the making of the film. This is a fine disc, but the film is available with the same features and a widescreen transfer. That version is preferable to this one. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide