Enchanted April (1991)
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Neville Phillips, Jim Broadbent
Directed By: Mike Newell
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302728651
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6302728657
Label: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: 1994-04-13
Running Time: 93
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks for the tip!
Comment: Enchanted April [Region 2]
Thanks to the blog, I purchased my DVD from Joesclassicmovies.com. Otherwise I would still be waiting to Paramount or whomever to release it! My DVD works just fine and it was lovely to see the film again after it's initial release. Thank you all!
Customer Rating:
Summary: IT'S A FILM I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER
Comment: I wasn't sure if I should give this film five stars in terms of how it stands against, say, CITIZEN KANE or LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, but after reading many of the other reviews here, I think I should. I can watch my (VHS) video of it over and over - the reasons why have mostly been said by others.
I just wanted to add that, if you have an all-region DVD player and can't wait until it's FINALLY released here, there is a Hong Kong release available at Asian DVD sites, like yesasia. Perhaps Amazon could get this one, review its quality, and offer it themselves?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good News, DVD To Be Released Soon!
Comment: Many thanks to another review that provided a contact name and email address. I sent an email to Stuart Snaith many weeks ago, and just received a reply today (18 July 2008) from Liz Hammond. Liz said the problems over film rights have been resolved and the Enchanted April DVD is due to be released as soon as December 2008 or possibly as late as Spring 2009. I trust our long wait is coming to a close.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Enchantment at Your Fingertips
Comment: Wonderful performances by Michael Kitchen and Joan Plowright but Josie Lawrence steals the show. I watch this whenever I'm blue and am so happy to own it. It's an intelligent, believable adult fairy tale. The camera work is beyond excellent and the music is superb even as it is unobtrusive. Best of all, it's the opposite of Hollywood. That means no cookie cutter beauties, no slick easy answers, no pasting over awkward moments by incompetent writers with tired pop tunes. This is the real deal folks: a work of art (with humor).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lowers blood pressure painlessly
Comment: We continue to await the DVD (in America) release of this instantly relaxing film. It quickly becomes a "comfort movie" like "White Christmas" and "Meet Me in St. Louis." Tougher than usual day? Get thee to Italy for a month(really just a couple of hours) with these beautifully painted characters.
Fine performances, cinematography and music become a tone poem of sensuality, warmth, hope, love and exquisite beauty.
Do we have to move to Sweden or Australia to own this gem on DVD; or must we buy yet another piece of machinery to decode the foreign recording? Why hasn't it become a DVD in this country? Don't we all long for some relief from our daily stresses? Couldn't we benefit from a few hours of beauty and humor? Get going, America!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks for the tip!
Comment: Enchanted April [Region 2]
Thanks to the blog, I purchased my DVD from Joesclassicmovies.com. Otherwise I would still be waiting to Paramount or whomever to release it! My DVD works just fine and it was lovely to see the film again after it's initial release. Thank you all!
Customer Rating:
Summary: IT'S A FILM I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER
Comment: I wasn't sure if I should give this film five stars in terms of how it stands against, say, CITIZEN KANE or LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, but after reading many of the other reviews here, I think I should. I can watch my (VHS) video of it over and over - the reasons why have mostly been said by others.
I just wanted to add that, if you have an all-region DVD player and can't wait until it's FINALLY released here, there is a Hong Kong release available at Asian DVD sites, like yesasia. Perhaps Amazon could get this one, review its quality, and offer it themselves?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good News, DVD To Be Released Soon!
Comment: Many thanks to another review that provided a contact name and email address. I sent an email to Stuart Snaith many weeks ago, and just received a reply today (18 July 2008) from Liz Hammond. Liz said the problems over film rights have been resolved and the Enchanted April DVD is due to be released as soon as December 2008 or possibly as late as Spring 2009. I trust our long wait is coming to a close.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Enchantment at Your Fingertips
Comment: Wonderful performances by Michael Kitchen and Joan Plowright but Josie Lawrence steals the show. I watch this whenever I'm blue and am so happy to own it. It's an intelligent, believable adult fairy tale. The camera work is beyond excellent and the music is superb even as it is unobtrusive. Best of all, it's the opposite of Hollywood. That means no cookie cutter beauties, no slick easy answers, no pasting over awkward moments by incompetent writers with tired pop tunes. This is the real deal folks: a work of art (with humor).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lowers blood pressure painlessly
Comment: We continue to await the DVD (in America) release of this instantly relaxing film. It quickly becomes a "comfort movie" like "White Christmas" and "Meet Me in St. Louis." Tougher than usual day? Get thee to Italy for a month(really just a couple of hours) with these beautifully painted characters.
Fine performances, cinematography and music become a tone poem of sensuality, warmth, hope, love and exquisite beauty.
Do we have to move to Sweden or Australia to own this gem on DVD; or must we buy yet another piece of machinery to decode the foreign recording? Why hasn't it become a DVD in this country? Don't we all long for some relief from our daily stresses? Couldn't we benefit from a few hours of beauty and humor? Get going, America!
This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long naps--they all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit. Mike Newell (Into the West) directs with seeming effortlessness, and it is impossible not to be swayed by the promise of restoration for these burdened characters--or for anyone alive. Wonderful performances all around, including a particularly sensitive one by Alfred Molina and a very funny one by Jim Broadbent. --Tom Keogh
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