I'm asking because everywhere I look, I can find no mention of a widescreen version.

Mine says its both, widescreen and Fullscreen. It doesn't say anamorphic but i tried it on my laptop and it looks like it is.

My DVD has anamorphic widescreen on side A and foolscreen on side B.

Ugh. Thanks guys. The Deep Discount listing for it listed it as wide/full, but my disc the fullscreen only version.

DVDAF.com does list two versions. Not sure why they would release a fool screen only version after the initial release was ws/fs.

You can see a customer image of the back cover from amazon. It states anamorphic video under special features. In fine print at the bottom, it has the side A widescreen side B fullscreen statement.

Also Deepdiscount has a UPC # listed in the description. That upc matches my ws/fs version. Check your upc and contact them if it doesn't match.

It is one of many titles that Sony originally released as a WS/FS flipper disc but then rereleased as FS only.

Man, I'd love this flick on Blu-ray.

Alba in her prime.

Sony quietly replaced most of their widescreen releases with foolscreen versions some years ago. Why? nobody knows. I was lucky finding the widescreen release of Silent Rage a couple of years ago. People at another forum were complaining how hard it was to track down the 16:9 version.

I had to obtain this movie in an unethical manner since the proper version went out of print. Thanks a lot, Sony.

Without changing the UPC's on any! A mcuh smaller number of titles had their FS sides dropped.

It's shown up in high-def on HDNet Movies, and...yeah, it desperately needs a new transfer and all that. Lower-profile movies from the first few years of DVD have it the worst...the studios don't really want to hammer out new transfers, but their existing high-def masters are awful. With a good presentation, I'd pick this one up in a heartbeat. (I dug Idle Hands so much that I bought the DVD before I even had a DVD player!)

As I just posted in another thread, I always check for these OOP flippers at Half Price Books stores. Found plenty of Cable Guy, Starman and Last Action Hero discs, along with the occasional The Fan or multiplicity thrown in there. Scanning is easy because usually the logos on the spine are slightly altered on the older vs. newer versions (the Tri-Star logo, for instance, is usually sideways with the text and very large on older discs, but they tilted it to go with the bottom of the case and made it smaller on future releases).

If you happen to find a sealed copy, buy at your own risk. Lots of Blind Date and Mixed Nuts got shipped with the old, unrevised cover art, compounding the "same UPC" problem even further.