Early video release, (left). UK home video (middle) and US home video release in 1994 (right).
Although Xanadu wasn't that successful on the silver screen, the combined Olivia/ELO soundtrack album was enormously successful, with some great songs like Xanadu and the #1 single Magic. Olivia is cast as Kira, a muse sent from the gods to inspire two people to create something they believe in, rather than just looking out over the ocean moping, or wasting talent on a routine day job. The film has been released and re-released many times on home video, it has proved more successful on home video than on the big screen.
A Laserdisc was issued in the 1980s and a DVD was released in the US in 1999. A video CD was also released in Hong Kong.
Total running is approx 92 minutes, VHS format.
MCA Universal 66019, US (1994 release)
Universal/CIC Video, 1018 UK release