Search - Judith Krantz: I'll Take Manhattan on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 01/21/2003 Format: DVD Edition: Television SwapaDVD Credits: 4 Number of Discs: 4 Run Time: 6 hrs 15 mins Studio: Delta Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Drama, Melodrama

This glitzy miniseries based on the Judith Krantz novel is a wicked soap opera about sex, power, and betrayal. Valerie Bertinelli stars as Maxi, whose mother (Francesca Annis) marries her father's hated brother Cutter (Perry King) after his death. Cutter had sworn to destroy everything his late brother valued and proceeds to run his publishing empire into the ground. Maxi, who has already been through three husbands by age 29, turns over a new leaf by gathering her family and making a commitment to save the business, which she does by becoming the editor of a successful fashion magazine. Maxi lives in the Trump Tower, whose famed real-life owner appears as himself. It has some unintentionally campy moments, but King is quite good as the villainous Cutter, and fans of this sort of high-gloss '80s melodrama will want to put it on their lists. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Valerie Bertinelli
Francesca Annis
Perry King