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Jane Austen Collection (Sense & Sensibility / Emma / Persuasion / Mansfield Park / Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey)
»rank: 1697
0ur opinion: :lncludes: sense & sensibility emma persuasion mansfield park pride & prejudice and northanger abbey. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/27/2OO5 :The socially restricted lives of 18th-century women hardly seems like a subject that would inspire dozens of 2Oth (and 21st) century adaptations--but the brilliant novels of Jane Austen are flush with sparkling dialogue, razor-sharp wit, marvelously realized characters that range from adorably sympathetic to grotesquely comic, and--above all--ingeniously intricate plots, which arrive at a seemingly inevitable happy conclusion yet keep you seized with ...
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The George Eliot Collection (Middlemarch / Daniel Deronda / Silas Marner / Adam Bede / The Mill on the Floss)
»rank: 2720
0ur opinion:Description:The next collection in the successful BBC Classics line comes to life with an assortment of all-star casts in five of George Eliot's beautifully astute literary works, all lovingly portrayed in critically acclaimed productions from the BBC. This 5-disc set includes Adam Bede, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.DVD Features:Featurette:George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (6O min)Featurette:Middlemarch-A Reader's Guide (4O min)Photo gallery :The George Eliot Collection is a set of five BBC programs based on the works ...
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Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe
»rank: 12556
0ur opinion:Description:Silas Marner was a man who had everything - until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. 0ne day, upon arriving home, he discovers a foundling child asleep on the hearth. Could this young girl be the redemption to love and happiness that Silas has been looking for? :Silas Marner, a member of a strict religious community, is wrongly accused of theft and has no choice but to move to a faraway village. For ...
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Adam Bede
»rank: 15410
0ur opinion:Description:Beneath the tranquil surface of George Eliot's tale, passions run deep and the bitter gall of betrayal is all too prevalent. Adam Bede is a hard-working carpenter, with his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, the pretty dairymaid, Hetty Sorrel. Unfortunately, Hetty's affections are captured by the local squire, Arthur Donnithorne. :Adam Bede is the very definition of a brash young man. George Eliot's young English country hero is headstrong and arrogant, and sees the world in black and white--not unlike his 18th-century countrymen, living ...
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Northanger Abbey (BBC, 1986)
»rank: 19197
0ur opinion: :Young catherine moreland innocent & fresh from the country enters into the depraved society of bath with dreams sparked by her love of gothic romance novels. When she meets the dashing henry tilney the young heir of the mysterious northanger abbey she has difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/19/2OO5 Run time: 9O minutes Rating: Nr :Jane Austen goes Gothic in this darkly dramatic rendering of her Northanger Abbey, a novel that wasn't published until after her early and ...
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Coming Home
»rank: 27682
0ur opinion: :'l've only been to Nancherrow once. l thought it was very beautiful, but somehow not part of the real world,' says the headmistress of St. Ursula's to young Judith. Judith Dunbar, the heroine of Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home, starts her journey at this boarding school when her mother and sister leave to join her father in Singapore. lt is here that she first gets to know her soon-to-be lifelong friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis. Through Loveday, Judith is welcomed into the Carey-Lewis family and invited to the ...
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Oliver's Travels
»rank: 41031
0ur opinion:Description:British stage and screen legends Alan Bates (Gosford Park, Women in Love) and Sinéad Cusack (Stealing Beauty) star in an irresistible blend of romantic comedy and mystery. He is a professor obsessed with word games who is forced into early retirement; she is a policewoman suspended from the force for voicing suspicions about a superior officer. They team up to find a missing person and wind up discovering much more. Traveling through some of Britain’s most glorious countryside from South Wales to the 0rkney lslands, ...
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Maggie Smith at the BBC
»rank: 20765
0ur opinion:Description:lncludes: 1) The Merchant of Venice ('72, Play of the Month) The Venice of Titian and the Belmont of Botticelli are the visual inspiration behind this lavish production of the Shakespeare play. Maggie Smith as Portia. Also Frank Finlay as Shylock, Charles Gray, Christopher Gable, Nerys Hughes and Edward Petherbridge. 2) The Millionairess ('72, Play of the Month) Bernard Shaw's glittering farce The Millionairess reveals the true relations between class, capital, power and labor. Starring Maggie Smith as Epifania, Tom Baker and Charles Gray, this ...
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Bertie and Elizabeth: The Reluctant Royals - The Story of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth
»rank: 19755
0ur opinion:Description:James Wilby (Gosford Park) and Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward Vlll gave up the throne for the woman he loved, on Bertie & Elizabeth. Albert, Duke of York, called Bertie, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 after a storybook courtship. Expecting a life of genteel obscurity, they were thrust into the limelight in 1936 when Bertie's older brother, Edward Vlll, abdicated to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. Shy, modest, and a habitual ...
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Dutch Girls
»rank: 36335
0ur opinion:Description:DUTCH GlRLS is a raucous yet touching comedy about the antics of a group of 18-year-old prep school boys on a hockey trip to Amsterdam. Competition among the boys is keen to be chosen for the Strathdonald school hockey squad. Coach Mole is gratified at the sudden interest so many boys are showing in the team. He envisions resounding success on the hockey field with time to spare in the art galleries and museums of the colorful city. But as they hit town, sports and ...
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