Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5013037817652
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ITV DVD
Release Date: March 19, 2001
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: ITV DVD
Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 1990

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then?

On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks




Rating: - Great film, bad package
Whatever happened to Winona Ryder? When you look at a film like this, her talent is so extremely obvious that you wonder how Hollywood could have let her fall through the cracks. This is a very simple film, but that's its appeal: it doesn't try to be clever. It takes its story of a teenager who's not just an outcast in her school but in her entire town and runs with it.

Although the film's title is "Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael", it's really about Dinky Bossetti, the aforementioned ... Read More

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Rating: - Dinky Bossetti- a true original !
I always thought that this film was one of Winona Ryder's best films from her teenage years.In my opinion it still is. She is superb as Dinky Bosetti the adopted smalltown teengae outcast whose eccentric ways make her the object of ridicule for the popular crowd at school. Along with this enter Roxy Carmichael the small-town hero and now famous singer who is due to visit Dinky's hometown and for whom Dinky believes is her long lost mother. Through Roxy's imminent visit Dinky sees a way in which to ... Read More

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Rating: - Dinky Bossetti is cool!
Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael is a great film. But with the release of Mermaids and Edward Scissorhands at around the same time in the cinema I've often felt that this film of Winona Ryder's has always been overlooked.This film is one of Winona Ryder's best teenage films. She gives a good performance as the adopted, intelligent small town teenage girl despised and alienated by her peers who feel threatened by her striking uniqueness and individuality which they perceive as'odd.'

Her character ... Read More

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Rating: - An overall package thumbs up
Winona Ryder shines in this with her usual style of capturing the mood for the situation. The film unfolds gracefully rather than powerfully but the characters and emotions are superb. It is certainly one of those films which has to be judged as an overall mood rather than a dissection.
If you own most of Ryder's work then this should be included in the collection.

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