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Epicurus.com - A Room With a View
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List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $13.74
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow
Directed By: James Ivory
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300250512
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6300250512
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-04
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Editorial Reviews:
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The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this popular film that made them art-house superstars. Splendidly adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, it's a comedy of the heart, a passionate romance and a study of repression within the British class system of manners and mores. It's that system of rigid behavior that prevents young Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) from accepting the loving advances of a free-spirited suitor (Julian Sands), who fears that she will follow through with her engagement to a priggish intellectual (Daniel Day-Lewis) whose capacity for passion is virtually nonexistent. During and after a trip to Italy with her protective companion (Maggie Smith), Lucy gradually gets in touch with her true emotions. The fun of watching A Room with a View comes from seeing how Lucy's thoughts and feelings finally arrive at the same romantic conclusion. Through an abundance of humor both subtle and overt, this crowd-pleasing "art movie" rose to an unexpected level of popular appeal. The Merchant-Ivory team received eight Academy Award nominations for their efforts, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, and Costume Design. --Jeff Shannon
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: It does not work
Comment: DVD would not work in any of my players even the new ones. It came with a little note in it that tells you you need new software to get it to run in most DVD players. I am returning it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Parents strongly cautioned
Comment: This film is not rated. Therefore, there is no visible warning on this dvd to advise parents that they may not want their children viewing this film. There is a scene in which men are swimming that involves full frontal male nudity. This film is categorized with several popular britlit titles, but most I've seen in that genre are decent and wholesome enough to be rated G or PG. This movie should be rated R at best due to the gratuitous nature of the nudity it contains. Although this films appears to well-liked according to the reviews I've read, there should be more of a warning to those who might find content in this film objectionable.
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Summary: wonderful movie
Comment: this is a great movie created with such a good taste, with great actors, specially Helena Bonham Carter.
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Summary: An HD-DVD With Only a View
Comment: There is so much to like about about the Merchant-Ivory production of A Room With a View that I couldn't wait to see it with all the detailed glory possible from an HD-DVD. But I wanted to hear it too, and alas, with this Warner/BBC version of the disc I could not: It does not have a Dolby or even a basic 2-channel soundtrack. Just DTS HD.
Amazon had nothing on the site to warn of this. A sad oversight.
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Summary: Bonham-Carter is a Show Stopper!
Comment: A Room with a View was only Bonham-Carter's second film, made when she was nineteen. To watch her in it, one would imagine her to be a much more experienced actress. Her performance strikes just the right balance of humor and drama and combined with clever dialogue, a dramatic, passionate plot, gorgeous scenery, and a Puccini-driven score, makes for an award-worthy film.
Don't think for a minute that this is some staid, English period piece. A Room with a View is a rolicking journey through Italy, London, and the English countryside, in the company of several fine performers: Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliot, Judi Dench, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Julian Sands turns in a charming performance as a secret suitor to Bonham-Carter's Lucy Honeychurch.
The only caution I can make is the male nudity in the film's bathing scene. While it does add to the humor of the picture, I feel the full frontal nudity went too far. Did we really need to see three sets of family jewels dangling out in the open air? Leave a little to the imagination, but don't leave this one on the shelf.
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