De Niro, Robert Early Years Double Feature: The Swap (1979) / Born to Win (1971)

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An introspective and disillusioned young film maker becomes involved with high-living jet-setters / A black comedy featuring a fast-talking drug addicts quest to score. All star cast and award-winning film maker Ivan Passer.

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Born to Win
Starring: Robert Deniro
Manufacturer: Mac Films
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ASIN: B000NOK0L2
Release Date: 2007-04-24

Classic 70's Movies 3 on 1 (Born To Win / Katherine / The Harrad Experiment)

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Harrad Experiment plus
Classic(?) 70's Moives---Buy At Your Own Risk

Classic 70's Movies 3 on 1 (Born To Win / Katherine / The Harrad Experiment)
Starring: James Whitmore , Tippi Hedren , Don Johnson , Bruno Kirby , and Laurie Walters
Director: Ted Post
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ASIN: B000067D6M
Release Date: 2002-05-21

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Harrad Experiment plus.......2007-04-12

If you're wanting Harrad Experiment on DVD this is the only available source.

Classic(?) 70's Moives---Buy At Your Own Risk.......2005-04-25

I bought this a few years ago because I wanted to see two of the three movies(Born to Lose, and The Harrad Experiment)and I though that with Sissy Spacek, how bad of a movie could Katherine be ?
Well, Robert Deniro stars in Born To Lose(for about five minutes playing cop number two).
If you like George Seagal, then this is a decent movie-Segal give a good performance as a down on his luck drug addict who's caught betweeen the cops and the dealer that he ripped off.
Katherine seems to be a kind of retelling of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga(sort of).(Henry Winkler(in a really early roll) and Art Carney(I guess the rent was due)also star-To be honest I was bored after 10 minutes and went ahead to --
The Harrad Experiment--Don Johnson stars as a student in the first Co-ed dorm at Harrad College-again to be honest although I like this movie,the print was so bad(jumps,fading colors) that I couldn't really enjoy the movie.(Tippi Hedren and James Whitmore also star).
So there you have it ,three movies with one decent print(Born to Lose).Buy at your own risk.

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Born to Win
Starring: Robert De Niro , Jane Elder , Hector Elizondo , Jay Fletcher , and Marcia Jean Kurtz
Director: Ivan Passer
Manufacturer: Madacy Home Video
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ASIN: B00028G4T6
Release Date: 2004-06-15

CLASSIC MOVIE DVD COLLECTIONS: 20 MOVIE PACK JOHN WAYNE MOVIES digiitally Re-Mastered on 4 DVDs (Co-Starring GAIL RUSSELL, HENRY FONDA, JAMES STEWART, MAUREEN O'HARA, GEORGE "GABBY" HAYES and more PLUS 3 MOVIES IN 1 DVD: BORN TO WIN (Starring Robert DeNIRO); GOLD (Starring Roger MOORE); DEATH SENTENCE (Starring Nick NOLTE).

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CLASSIC MOVIE DVD COLLECTIONS: 20 MOVIE PACK JOHN WAYNE MOVIES digiitally Re-Mastered on 4 DVDs (Co-Starring GAIL RUSSELL, HENRY FONDA, JAMES STEWART, MAUREEN O'HARA, GEORGE "GABBY" HAYES and more PLUS 3 MOVIES IN 1 DVD: BORN TO WIN (Starring Robert DeNIRO); GOLD (Starring Roger MOORE); DEATH SENTENCE (Starring Nick NOLTE).

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20 MOVIE PACK STARRING JOHN WAYNE PLUS 3 FULL-LENGTH MOVIES IN 1 DVD (TOTAL OF 23 MOVIES ON 5 DVDs, !)
Starring: JOHN WAYNE; ROBERT DeNIRO; ROGER MOORE; NICK NOLTE
MOVIES: BORN TO WIN; GOLD; DEATH SENTENCE + 20 MORE WITH JOHN WAYNE
DIGITALLY MASTERED DVDs, DOLBY DIGITAL
23 GREAT CLASSIC MOVIE COLLECTION. HOURS OF FAMILY HOME VIEWING ENTERTAINMENT!

ASIN: B000UDDP4A

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JOHN WAYNE 20 MOVIE PACK: THE DAWN RIDER; THE DESERT TRAIL; THE LUCKY TEXAN; 'NEATH ARIZONA SKIES; RAINBOW VALLEY; THE TRAIL BEYOND; TEXAS TERROR; THE STAR PACKER; PARADISE CANYON; RIDERS OF DESTINY; WEST OF THE DIVIDE; WINDS OF THE WASTELAND; HELL TOWN; THE LAWLESS FRONTIER; THE MAN FROM UTAH; RANDY RIDES ALONE; BLUE STEEL; SAGEBRUSH TRAIL; ANGEL AND THE BADMAN; McLINTOCK; BONUS DOCUMENTARY: THE AMERICAN WEST OF JOHN FORD. 3 FULL-LENGTH MOVIES IN 1 DVD: MOVIE 1 - BORN TO WIN (Starring Robert DeNIRO, George SEGAL & Karen BLACK. A smart-mouthed junkie spends his days looking for just "one more fix" while a detective on the hunt for a drug dealer must apprehend him before the mob does him in. 95 min/1971/Color); MOVIE 2 - GOLD (Starring Roger MOORE & John GIELGUD. The new manager of a gold mine stumbles across a devious plot to flood the mine by drilling into an underground lake. Now he must stop the unscrupulous owners from making a killing in the international gold market. 119 min/1974/Color); MOVIE 3 - DEATH SENTENCE (Starring Nick NOLTE & Cloris LEACHMAN. A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband in this gripping courtroom drama. 75 min/1974/Color).

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Born To Lose
BORN TO WIN is, indeed, born to win!
Gave it 45 minutes and turned it off!
A Sadly Neglected Film
dont buy this movie!

Born to Win
Starring: George Segal , Karen Black , Paula Prentiss , Jay Fletcher , and Hector Elizondo
Director: Ivan Passer
Manufacturer: United American Video
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ASIN: B00005QW62
Release Date: 2001-09-25

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Born To Lose.......2006-02-08

Does Deniro even appear in this movie? Talk about false advertising.

BORN TO WIN is, indeed, born to win!.......2002-08-22

Today, it seems like every major studio in 1971 was distributing a film having to do with the drug "culture" (THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK for Twentieth Century Fox, CISCO PIKE for Columbia, BELIEVE IN ME for MGM, etc.) United Artists, however, jumped maybe too much on the band wagon in releasing JENNIFER ON MY MIND (also with De Niro in a bit part as a gypsy cab driver), but their other film drama involving drug abuse was BORN TO WIN. This film is a small hidden gem that has not yet received its well-deserved audience. It features what is, in my opinion, the best performance of George Segal throughout his whole career, as well as involving supporting performances from Karen Black, Jay Fletcher, Robert De Niro and others. It also featured the prime signal that this was an authoratative film on drug abuse: Marcie Jean Kurtz (who appeared in THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, BELIEVE IN ME and other films of this type).

The scenes that have remained striking and unforgettable include the one in which Segal, after having been dropped off in a neighborhood of junkies by his girlfriend, retires into a dark, musty alley of strung-out derelicts as he attempts to find his friend (Jay Fletcher); the scene on the beach with Karen Black conforting George Segal; Karen Black having to resort to lines like "Come back home to me"; the closing scene.

In analyzing this film, some film authorities may declare BORN TO WIN as an archetypal piece about drugs and how they allow characters to make the decline from temporary decadence into personal debauchery, alienating them from anyone who does not see them as an addict. Ivan Passer, who also in CUTTER'S WAY illustrated technique and theory in labeling cinema as the cultural vengeance for the socially impotent, demonstrates this element at an early juncture in his career. BORN TO WIN simply uses the component of drugs to use as an allegory for that crowd of socially impotent people, as well as various techniques at how they make pitiful attempts as silent revenge while they drive themselves to personal apocalypse in an urban jungle. This allows more privileged people to create "caste systems" for these types. This may sound terribly pretentious, but this is the only way to explain my viewpoint on this film to whoever reads this review. Also adding onto the film's sense of milieu is the graininess utilized in editing and camerawork. Without these two factors, BORN TO WIN would not have retained its gritty disctinction and probably would have drifted into "another typical picture about drug abuse".

In response to the minimal amount of negative reviews I have read about BORN TO WIN, you cannot expect a genuine message to come after a half hour of viewing time and you cannot regard it as just another drug picture before you think and ponder the film's ultimate meaning in the film's culminating moments. I admit to its sometimes deficient endeavors at portraying the comical value of the drug culture (the scene in which Segal dresses in pink robe and prances around in Time Square to avoid his pursuers and stopping in at a shop for mens' suits), but the dramatic moments of the film are pinnacle for trying to understand this "class" of people. BORN TO WIN is a remarkable film and nothing allows me to make hesitations about giving it a five star rating.

Gave it 45 minutes and turned it off!.......2001-11-14

This movie was so boring and stupid, I turned it off after about 45 minutes. Maybe I had a poor copy, but I could barely understand what Paula Prentiss was saying -- and it wasn't because she was "under the influence!" I ran it back a few times but still couldn't make it out. From the other reviewers, it sounds like it got better but, if something doesn't grab my attention after 30 minutes, I say forget it!

A Sadly Neglected Film.......2001-03-30

This little film from the early seventies stars major film star Robert De niro in a role I'm sure even he can't remember doing along with george segal who plays JJ a sucsessful hairdresser who's hooked on heroerin and runs afoul of the mob. So JJ is up to his neck in trouble when the cops use him to get the goods on a drug smuggler. Absorbing at times very well acted By segal in this somewhat twisted comedy/drama Best scene is when JJ & His friend are shooting up in a washroom in an abandon office floor JJ'S friend overdoses on what he thinks is heroin but instead it's battery acid laced inside the drug meant for JJ. A powerful scene displaying Segal at his efftictive moment in the film. A bittersweet film more regareded and appriciated today then it was first relased over twenty years ago.

dont buy this movie!.......2001-01-07

I bought it because of Robert deniro and the low price. It wasnt worth it. The picture quality is horrible, it looks like a bad tape... the color is constantly changing and the picture is very grainy. The sound is nothing to brag about. And besides all of that, the movie sucks. Robert Deniro has a total of about 2 minutes of screen time, and he says maybe less then 10 lines. And whats even worse than that- the dvd that I bought had a picture of Deniro that wasnt even from this movie! sat away from this one, spend a little more a better movie.

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Born to Win/Sam's Song
Starring: Robert DeNiro , George Segal , Karen Black , Jennifer Warren , and Viva
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Release Date: 2007-05-14

Robert Deniro Festival; Born to Win & The Swap

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Robert Deniro Festival; Born to Win & The Swap

Manufacturer: Movie Classics
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ASIN: B000A1M8IQ

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BORN TO WIN: (Not Rated.1971, 83 minutes, color)Starring Robert DeNiro, Karen Black, George Segal, Paula Prentiss and Hector Elizondo. A heroin addicted hairdresser, needing one hundred dollars a day to support his habit, robs a Broadway restaurant. The tough, harsh world of Times Square junkies is brought to the screen with powerful drama and gentle humor. THE SWAP: (Rated R, 1969, 89 minutes, color)Starring Robert DeNiro, Jarred Mickey and Jennifer Warren. When Sammy Nicoletti (Robert DeNiro), a promising young film director, is mysteriously murdered, the case is eventually closed by the police and left unsolved - that is, until his brother Vito is released from prison ten years later. In keeping with Italian tradition, Vito sets out to find the answer to the question of Sammy's death, and will stop at nothing and for no one to get it. Retracing the final days of Sammy's life, Vito begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Now his own life is in danger: Vito's fate could echo Sammy 's ... unless he agrees to make The Swap.

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Born to Win
Starring: Robert DeNiro; George Sgal; Karen Black; Paula Prentiss
Director: Ivan Passer
Manufacturer: Passion Productions
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City by the Sea (Full Screen Edition)

ASIN: B0002QPNP4
Release Date: 2002-07-19

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A smart-mouther junkie and loser known as J.J. (George Segal), spends his days looking for just "one more fix", while the love of his life attempts to get him off the streets. This classic love story is a gripping tale, based upon the realities of life between men and women in all walks of life.

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Perfect Movie but worse copy and missing scene!
Its not all that bad

Born to Win
Starring: Robert De Niro , Jane Elder , Hector Elizondo , Jay Fletcher , and Marcia Jean Kurtz
Director: Ivan Passer
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Perfect Movie but worse copy and missing scene!.......2001-06-21

This movie is excellent if you have the chance to see it in an uncutted version. The DVD I bought misses a very nice scene - girl on the balcony was cut down because of showing to much skin for the US version - this is to bad because it embezzles another great pointe of the movie.

Very good music and great acting.

Its not all that bad.......2000-07-04

DeNiro was only in the movie for a few moments but George Segal is the star and he gives a harrowing and brilliant performance as a hundred dollar a day heroin addict. The film is funny and sad unfortunately utterly truthful. This film forshadowed a whole generation of films about lost souls adrift in our blasted urban landscapes. Its a bit on the morbid side at first but will please you towards the beginning of the second half.

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