 | Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Elizabeth Mitchell, Natasha Little, Jack Shepherd, Pauline Collins Director: Simon Curtis Format: Anamorphic PAL Widescreen Released: 09 Feb 2004 RRP: Average Rating:  |
Here's a movie that doesn't need any big effects & that still had me pinned to my seat while blinking away the occasional tear...but it leaves you with a smile in the end...
No, the story is not necessarily new but then these are people like you & me facing every day problems & forced to make decisions we can alll relate to.
Ioan Gruffudd is at least as talented as he is handsome & the whole cast - including & especiallly the little boy who plays his son - do a terrific job.
If you have a single romantic bone in your body you will probably enjoy this...but be warned: If you don't have a family of your own just yet this movie might well make you yearn for one!
Before this I have always read books by female writers (except for Nick Hornby) as I thought that I could not relate to a male writer's views or that they simply would not be able to write with the same depth of feeling as women. How wrong I was! This changed my views on male authors & men in general.
A very touching book. Not sure about the characters. Yes, the main character is an idiot by having a one night stand but his wife seems to turn into super-bitch afterwards & seems to use the infidelity to give up on a marriage which she always felt had trapped her. It is similar to 'Kramer versus Kramer' but better, I felt.
This novel is very well adapted in the TV drama which is now available on video & DVD.
I have over 200 films in my DVD collection & 200 videos & this is the first time I have taken to writing a note inside the case of any film.
The note reads "If you have opened this case & are considering watching this DVD, please close it & do something more enjoyable, like pulling hairs from your nostrils"
The acting is so wooden, that if Pinnochio were to enter before the end of this film, I would sit up & prepare myself for some decent performance.
I have no empathy for the characters, the storyline is disengenuous & unconvincing with a gamut of cliches.
The fact that this is a BBC production may be the reason that this film is such a disappointing waste of time.
People often say that the original book is far superior to any film drawn from it... In this case, it would be impossible for the book not to be better than the film.
I walked out of the cinema when "Batman & Robin" came out (and had to wake up the woman on the end of the row)... but believe me, this is far far worse...
Enough said...
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