License to Drive (Special Edition) [DVD]

I didn’t wanna send a video or picture or anything, but I’ve been hunting everywhere for it so I got it for my daughter because my son-in-law never had seen it. He’s gonna love it cause I did and so did she when she was younger🥰

The best movie ever

I saw this movie so many years ago and it’s still as funny to me now as it was then. I laughed all the way through it.

With the recent loss of Corey Haim I've noticed a decent amount of newly released older titles, staring the late actor, gracing the shelves of my local department store. Of course this is nothing new. A celebrity passes away & studios generate more income for their previous work (i.e. Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson & Heath Ledger) thus releasing everything they can in response to the recent publicity. I suppose it's a win/win for both consumers & studios. After all, true Corey fans can finally get their hands on a few of his obscure 80's films such as Dream A Little Dream 2 & Demolition University (which, by the way, has "Remembering TheTeen Idol" prominently displayed on the front cover) but I can't help but feel his death is being slightly exploited here. I mean, just a few short months ago the License To Drive DVD was out of print, leaving fans of the movie SOL if they wanted to pick it up for a fair price. I suppose that's show business though....Nonetheless we have License To Drive on Blu-Ray; my personal favorite Corey's movie. By now, we consumers, know how this works. Just because an older film is finally released on Blu-Ray it doesn't guarantee its been given the Blu-Ray treatment. Transfers can sometimes be atrocious. Thankfully this is not the case with License To Drive.Presented in a 1080p picture the images are strong & steady perhaps slightly soft in places but sharp for the most part. Details are steady with strong clarity and a slight grain structure. Facial complexions have a soft edge, but generally the texture is satisfactory. Colors are decent, not exactly vibrant, not exactly dull, which results in an intermediate shading that works fairly well. Darks are fine, but can't match the deepness of newer titles. The print itself has been cleaned up removing the dust & nicks that accompanied previous releases. Truth be told, this is probably the best License To Drive has, or ever will, look... but don't expect Mission-Impossible-Ghost-Protocol-type picture quality here.Like the picture, sound is good through the Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack, but leaves something to be desired. Music is strong with fair clarity but solid spacing; a noticeable surround element is achieved nicely. The action scenes toward the end of the movie have all the desructive sounds of automotive chaos; very crisp accuracy. Certain scenes, however, sound indistinct; like a bus crashing through an alleyway early in the opening chase scene. For the most part the sound is rewarding, but not top notch. Still... not too shabby for a 1987 title.If anyone here is thinking of replacing their DVD version I would say yes, this is a justifiable upgrade; especially for the price. Corey Haim will be missed by fans, but it's Blu-Ray titles like this that keep his memory alive. Normally I would give four stars for a Blu-Ray of this quality, but considering what they had to work with & the fact that certain Corey titles have yet to even be released on DVD (Dream Machine) I'm giving it the extra star. Like I said... this is the probably the best License To Drive will ever get.

Haven't seen this film since I was about 14. That's over 22 years ago on cable . Had to purchase this film 🎥. If the seller has the getaway I need that also . I need that like last week Newspaper's

My wife made me watch. It’s not a house staple.

Great movie to take you back to the 80s! Loved the Coreys when I was younger. This movie will always be a favorite!

This movie is about a high-school kid who is convinced that getting his license to drive a car will promote the much-deserved freedom he needs, and hoping that his pregnant mom and his dad, who is charged with guarding the grandfather's 1972 Cadillac, will buy him a BMW with the arrival of his license in order to impress the prettiest girl at school, Mercedes, who just got plans for their "first date."Except that the kid fails miserably on his written test. Due to a computer malfunction, he is allowed to take his driver's test, which he manages to pass with flying colors, but he only gets a glimpse of his newly-printed license before the truth of his test scores is revealed and the license is ripped up in front of his disbelieving eyes. Determined to take the test again after the weekend, he leads his parents on with the understanding that he passed his test until then, but they find out pretty quickly about the truth and ground him as a punishment.Remembering his date with Mercedes, he sneaks out of the house while his parents are asleep and even takes the grandfather's Cadillac, which only has 20,000 miles on the odometer and is in great shape. The date doesn't quite go as expected, since the car is towed, he has to bribe the tow-truck driver with $80 to let his car go, and Mercedes gets drunk and passes out shortly afterwards. So he invites his friends with him for a night on the town, and each encounter they go through ends up with the car getting more scratched and banged up than before, even with a drunk driver stealing the Cadillac, as he thinks it's HIS car, and gives the car a lot of body damage before the guys recover it.By morning, the car looks like a shattered wreck, and the father is infuriated by the result. But the mom happens to go into labor on the spot, requiring him to drive the parents to the hospital with a bad transmission that only works in Reverse. Everything works out in the end, even with the Cadillac being pancaked by a falling beam at a construction site, because the grandfather happens to return the father's BMW from his trip literally in the same condition as his Cadillac, and the kid, Les, still gets his girl in the end. This movie was completely hilarious and would be 10 stars if it allowed more than 5.

Excelente película

Gute Veröffentlichung, hätte ich bei dieser Firma (Hansesound) nicht gedacht.Das Bild ist auch bei dunklen und schnellen Szenen nicht verpixelt oder mit Artefakten.Das HD-Master ist solide bis gut, ein 4k Scan würde natürlich noch mehr herauskitzeln, aber ich bin auch mit dem hier zufrieden, zum Glück wurde nicht gefiltert oder nachgeschärft - ein Upgrade lohnt sich.Der Stereo-Ton ist neu, wurde angeblich von einer Bootleg-DVD gezogen und breitet sich mit Dolby Pro Logic wunderbar auf die Boxen aus.Beim Gespräch mit den Eltern (nach der Führerscheinprüfung) ist mir ein lauter Knackser aufgefallen, sonst ist der Ton eigentlich in Ordnung.Hätte viel schlimmer sein können, blechern oder Mono - wie die alte DVD.Die Stimmen sind klar verständlich und die Tonqualität ist weit entfernt von den schrecklichen Ton-Miseren anderer Labels (z.B. Terminator 2, Universal Soldier, Platoon, RoboCop...).Beim Stereo-Effekt und der Musik ist mir auch nichts aufgefallen (keine digitalen Artefakte, dünn oder Gießkanne), klingt gut und kräftig.Der Film ist natürlich ein 80er Jahre Teenie-Komödie-Kult-Klassiker, für Fans ein Muss!Macht auch nach über 30 Jahren noch Spaß.

Divertida comedia juvenil americana de los 80.El blu-ray tiene buena calidad de imagen.El sonido en versión original es 5.1, y para la versión en castellanotiene un sonido 2.0 bastante aceptable.Sin duda alguna, una de las imprescindibles películas de los 80, que nopuede faltar en cualquier colección.

Un classique des 80's à mettre aux côté de Ferris Bueller, La créature de rêve et Breakfast Club, incompréhensible qu'il ne soient pas sorti en version européenne, ici, version américaine avec sous titres en anglais.

コリー・ハイムの作品の中でもこの作品はとても面白いと思います。コリー・フェルドマンとの共演しダブルコリーのコンビで行き当たりばったり的な、また女の子の前でかっこつけなくてはならない男の性がコメディタッチで描写されています。以前はほとんどのレンタルビデオ店に置いてあるほどでしたが、日本ではコリー・ハイムの作品がDVD発売されていないものが多いので悲しい限りです。コリーハイムのその他の作品も日本でDVD化を望みます。