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starring: Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Neville Phillips, Jim Broadbentdirected by: Mike Newell
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302728651
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302728657
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: April 13, 1994
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 10
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Enchantment at Your Fingertips
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: ... Read More
Rating: - Lowers blood pressure painlessly
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A wonderful film and very worthwhile
This film really ought to be re-released. (At one time I owned three copies, each of which was purloined by the (now long forgotten) borrower.) Please ask the issuer to bring back Enchanted April on DVD.
Rating: - Stories that should be told.
One the most delightful, warm, and rewarding movies we've ever seen.
Bill and Zoe
Rating: - Enchanted April is an Enchanted Film
I have praised Enchanted April elsewhere and I will do this again here.
Please do not miss this most lovely and life-affirming film. Those of us
who have seen it love it so much. Enchanted April was introduced on American television by Masterpiece Theater a few years ago.
This is an under-appreciated movie as so many superb classics are. That
Enchanted April has not been released in Region One (US and Canada) DVD
format is a shame. This film is a gem.
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