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starring: Stacy Keach, Josephine Chaplin, Marisa Berenson, Lisa Banes, Pamela Reeddirected by: Bernhard Sinkel
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781930628311
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1930628315
Label: DVD International
Manufacturer: DVD International
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: DVD International
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Running Time: 300 minutes
Sales Rank: 126028
Studio: DVD International
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 1988
Editorial Review:
Description:
Of all the memorable characters created by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, none was more complicated, more fascinating or more charismatic than Hemingway himself. Adored by women and the quintessential 'man's man,' he was husband, father, lover, war correspondent, brawler, adventurer and sportsman. Set against the turbulent history of the times, Hemingway reveals his tender and stormy relationships with his four wives: believer Hadley Richardson (Josephine Chaplin), glamorous Pauline Pfeiffer (Marisa Berenson), journalist Martha Gellhorn (Lisa Banes) and devoted Mary Welsh (Pamela Reed), each of whom had significant impact on his work.
Amazon.com:
Stacey Keach does a star turn as 'Papa' Hemingway in this 1988 made-for-television saga, working his way through nearly five on-screen hours of womanizing, drinking, and big-game hunting--and even manages to squeeze in time to write a few canon-bound books. Although director Bernhard Sinkel's epic look at the writer suffers from a lethargic pace and highly suspect (read: glamorized) portrayals of such luminaries as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, the film, based in part on Hemingway's letters, does offer abundant biographical glimpses into Hemingway's fabled history. Keach's portrayal, while well short of inspired, suits the medium, and won him a Golden Globe Award to boot. The film was shot on location around the globe, so Hem enthusiasts will at least be treated to a visual survey of the legendary writer's many habitats. Unfortunately, the extra features on this two-disc set are extraordinarily meager; the 'Hemingway Biography' and 'Keach on Hemingway' segments are merely a few screens of text outlining a scanty overview of these subjects. Nonetheless, as the only biopic available, Hemingway will no doubt be of interest to insatiable Hemingway and Modern Lit aficionados. But for a livelier, more entertaining look into the writer's life, a beaten paperback copy of A Moveable Feast will do. --Karl Wachter
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - poor music ruins a good flick
The music score for this is so bad, that it detracts from the otherwise excellent film. The synthesizer music is annoying, hokey and distracting.
Rating:  - "Pulitzer & Nobel Prize Winner ... Ernest Hemingway ... Stacy Keach ... Koch Vision"
Koch Vision present - "Hemingway" (1988) (300 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Stacy Keach has the lead role of Hemingway and was filmed on-location in Paris, Venice, Pamplona, The Alps, Africa, the U.S. and The Caribbean - places where Hemingway lived, worked, loved and produced some of the most influential and enduring fiction of the 20th Century --- a Golden Globe Award Winner, traces the life and times of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway ... legendary writer, adventurer, ... Read More
Rating: - This is junk! The technical quality is an outrage
I saw this miniseries on European TV about 10 years ago; taped it and -- being a Pappa aficionado -- cherished it. My VHS copy slowly became fuzzy and I hoped to get the same in everlasting DVD quality.
Man, was I wrong.
The broadcasted series was longer. What did they take out? The good stuff. The broadcasted series had a brilliant score, based on the Enigma variations by James Elgar. The DVD has some electronic synthesizer score, usually associated with 3d rate porn from ... Read More
Rating: - Champ writer trying to live the good life
I previously had no reason to worry about who or how many women Hemingway might be married to. Even Dorothy Parker was married a few times, and she wrote for `The New Yorker' when she was lucky, but she was unlucky enough to get married when husbands were going to war. Dorothy Parker was most unpopular during World War II for complaining that by the time her husband came home, he was sure to be somebody else. Hemingway never made it all seem as funny as Dorothy Parker usually was, but John Dos Passos ... Read More
Rating: - Stacy Keach as Hemingway
Stacy Keach, a near Hemingway look-a-like portrays Ernest the struggling author in Paris remarkably well. Life in Paris while deeply in love, without money with his career getting a start is arguably the best time in his life causing the appropriate book title of this period, "Movable Feast". Running through the streets with the bulls chasing him in Pamplona, Spain gives reality to "The Sun Also Rises", for which he made Pamplona famous. Flashbacks to the Civil Wars in Italy and Spain do a fine job of accounting ... Read More
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