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starring: Anna Paquin, Alfre Woodard, Corey Dunn, Enrico Colantoni, Anne Tremkodirected by: Fielder Cook
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781574925067
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1574925067
Label: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Release Date: September 16, 1997
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 18209
Studio: Hallmark Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 29, 1997
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Rating:  - That this was made for TV is no excuse!!
The Columbia 1952 movie based on McCullers' play and novel and starring two of the greatest actresses N.America has produced and a child actor of genius, is one of the greatest and most surprising films to come from a major Hollywood studio and by producing it Stanley Kramer went some way towards atoning for all those stinkers he later directed.Zinneman said it was his favorite of all his movies.Had Fielder Cook seen this particular masterpiece when he had the nerve to expose an unsuspecting tv audience ... Read More
Rating:  - Fine Remake
Anyone familiar with the play or the 1952 version with Julie
Harris will wonder what happened in this remake. The producers
went back to McCullers' novel and adapted that version. When
McCuller's adapted the work for the stage she made several
changes. Alfre Woodard is wonderful as Berniece and Anna
Paquin captures the hormones-ragin teenager quite well. The
matted colors make you feel you are part of the environment.
I am glad there are two versions of the story on ... Read More
Rating: - A great book ruined !
The book was made into a GREAT movie in 1952. For some odd reason, they tried to re-do it in 1998 and the result is AWFUL.
The casting is all wrong, the script is totally re-done until it does not even resemble the original. The ending just fizzles out and has no point. Imagine going to see West Side Story, but there is no music, and everyone lives at the end. You would wonder what idiot was trying to pass off that farce as being the genuine West Side Story.
It is exactly the same situation here, ... Read More
Rating:  - Wonderful and touching performance by Anna Paquin
The Carson McCullers' novel whom this movie is based on is very simple on its surface, but deeply it contains a stunning sadness and melancholy that the intelligent writer expresses perfectly.
It has characters whose lifes are normal without nothing special happening to them, but the deep feelings are there and the novel captures them in a very special way. There lies the greatness of the book.
But, ¿Is possible to translate this to the screen? Well, is not an easy job, but here we have ... Read More
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