Daniel Deronda
by Tom Hooper
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Actor: Edward Fox, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Dancy, Jodhi May, Romola GaraiDirector: Tom Hooper
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Kate Harwood
Producer: Laura Mackie
Producer: Lee Morris
Producer: Louis Marks
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Writer: Andrew Davies
Writer: George Eliot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 210 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of Daniel Deronda
DVD Review: Don't always follow your heart
Summary: 5 Stars
I liked this movie very much. Love can be satisfying and bitter, but for Daniel, he made a very hard and heartfelt decision in persuing his own heritage. That was more important to him then that of belonging to a different class of society with great statue. He was content with who he was and used his education for a good purpose.DVD Review: Good, classic story film
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie and, since I have never read the book, I probably enjoyed it the more for not having done so. It actually makes me want to read this book. The acting was good and the story held my attention but it was rather melancholy at the end, I thought. For the price of the movie I don't feel ripped off. It was a good buy and I am sure I will view it again in the future.
If you like BBC Classic Dramas as much as I do, you will probably like it. If you are not into the genre, then this is probably not the best one to introduce you to the genre.
DVD Review: HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE
Summary: 1 Stars
The main character couldn't act and the script was so poor that I never really figured out what the plot was until the end. Gwendolyn was egotistical and selfish and then later- pathetic and needy. Daniel just wandered around lost the whole time. Mirah was a weak character...
This seemed to be a movie (at the end, anyway) about how terrible English society was when compared to the unfortunate Jews. It tries to be interesting and complex, but it fails miserably. At the end, I felt like I've been shammed into watching something that is just a thinly veiled attempt at convincing the viewer of the greatness and importance of Jews and their quest for a homeland. I don't care about any of that. If it had been about any other race/religion taking pride in themselves, while showing how crappy other people were, I still would have been annoyed. The problem with this movie is that at one extreme, you have gwen and the rest of the English and at the other extreme you have these zealots who are made to look like .. I don't know- perfect??? I am sure this review will make some people angry, so you can enlighten me on all the injustice that Jews have been subject to, but I just thought the movie could have found some middle ground. People are pretty much the same everywhere you go and there are some good, some bad. This flim was too black and white. It gets one star for excellent costumes and scenery. (And yes, I did notice the few TOKEN attempts at pretending to be fair.. The way the German-Jewish magician married the English girl and the fact that Mirahs dad sucked... Those were tokens, though).
DVD Review: Plot was getting somewhere - but final chapter lets down
Summary: 3 Stars
I personally was let down when watching the 4 part installment of this movie.
Don't get me wrong - the acting is wonderful, the costume amazing, and the storyline had promise........ but it seems as if it just ended kind of cheezy and abruptly.
My Complaints:
*I didn't care for the amount of time spent in Duronda searching/delving/debating his Jewish past....it became dragged out and almost too religous.
*I like Jodhi May - but her expressions when she is upset are unattractively distracting (kind of a snarl flared nostril thing)
*Barbara Hershey portraying a Spanish Contessa who is English/Jewish (??) that's when I threw in the hat..... she was terribly chosen for that part and it just seemed from there on out, the film was in a hurry to climax and end.
Of course a happy/unhappy-for-some ending was a pleasant difference, but I can't say that I was a fan of how Mrs. Grandcourt became a widow either...kind of cheesy.
In redemption, I loved the marriage that went awry for Gwendolyn and Grandcourt - the abuse was belieavable and Grandcourt really is dastardly. Duronda's true romance was also endearing with Jodhi May's character.
Overall the film was good - it just had me hoping it would end better/ more developed in several aspects.
DVD Review: Daniel Deronda
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great movie. Hugh Dancy does a great job.
I got the product a week or so after it was ordered and it's in excellent condition.
Description of Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent young man, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But Gwendolen needs money more than passion, and the self-centered aristocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help, only to discover his involvement with the young Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.Torn between his devotion to Gwendolen and his passion for Mirah and the plight of her people, Daniel is forced to look at his own mysterious past and find out who he really is...and who he wants to be.DVD Features:
Biographies:Cast and crew, plus author George Eliot
Photo gallery:Featuring pictures from behind the scenes
George Eliot's accomplished but underrated last novel is effectively, often stirringly, adapted for this 2002 BBC production, which was scripted by old pro Andrew Davies (Middlemarch) and directed with wit and subtlety by Tom Hooper (Cold Feet). Set in the 1870s, Eliot's story concerns two strong-willed young people whose self-determination is under attack by legal constraints on their rights to an inheritance. The noble Daniel (Hugh Dancy) is of dubious birth; the fiery Gwendolen (Romola Garai) can't possess her late father's estate because she's a woman. They are sympathetic to one another, but not lovers: Gwendolen is obliged to marry into wealth and becomes an unhappy bride of the scoundrel Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville), while Daniel must sort out his feelings about the much-maligned "Jewess," the beautiful Mirah. Despite Garai's somewhat questionable casting, this lengthy drama--evenly divided between the two leads--never lags in insight or passion. --Tom Keogh
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