Must be some legal issue. Bradbury's works have always been hard to put on the screen, but this movie does a better job of it than most.
sharei found this at the local library on vhs.very good movie.
shareYou're lucky. The only VHS copies I've seen for sale are used and expensive.
Update: I just found one for 10 bucks, so I'm lucky, too. BTW, beware of sellers of illegal DVD copies on eBay. They won't play on most machines and are of dubious quality.
I have it on letterboxed Laserdisc. Pretty nice video and great audio quality.
shareI found this on VHS at a used record store for an entirely reasonable $1.50. For a collection of stories that are probably unfilmable, they did a decent job here.
shareThe Illustrated Man was finally released on DVD in March, 2013.
Netflix has it available to rent, while Amazon has it not only for sale, but also to watch via their Amazon Instant Video streaming service.
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