North & South
by Brian Percival
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Actor: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Emma Ferguson (II), Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Travis OliverDirector: Brian Percival
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of North & South
DVD Review: #1 in my movie library!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is simply put... My favorite movie... period. Acting... screenplay adaptation..costumes...soundtrack. I found little fault with it.. Except wanting to be the leading lady... Why are there no movies like this anymore? The soundtrack is haunting.. and I finally found a website that I was able to download with little or no background noise. Get the movie... you truly will not be disappointed. DVD Review: Worth watching just to look at Richard Armitage
Summary: 5 Stars
I stumbled upon this on youtube after "Cranford" ran on PBS. This was the first time I had ever heard of Elizabeth Gaskell. I thought that is was really well done and I liked watching Richard Armitage. OK - he is my new favorite British actor. You can get a synopsis of the story from another review. The acting is really good and the sets are great. I just love the last scene... I purchased this as part of the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection. It is very much worth watching.DVD Review: Elizabeth Gaskell Rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am embarrassed to admit I've never read a Gaskell book, but I am soon to remedy that situation. However, I've seen all of the movie mountings of her work. I think she goes way beyond Jane Austen and actually more closely resembles Dickens in that she was a social critic, a writer who was not totally focused on romance and the social restrictions inherent in the English "caste" system of the time.
Not to suggest she didn't care about romance; the ending of this series, that scene at the train station, is the single most romantic movie moment I've seen in many, many years. It brought tears to my eyes. Women will absolutely melt.
As is typical of these BBC series, the acting is uniformly excellent. I was familiar with the luminously beautiful Daniella Denby-Ashe from the British soap EastEnders. Sinead Cusack is outstanding as the cold and unfeeling mother, and does a nice job with the midlands accent. Richard Armitage is a revelation as the factory owner.
DVD Review: All-time favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
The characters--especially John Thornton and Margaret Hale--really came to life in this four-hour BBC mini-series. It captured the tense socio-economic climate of the 1850s that serves as a backdrop to the love story. This, along with the chemistry between the actors, and the beautiful costumes and sets, helped provide a texture of richness and realism. Casting, direction and screenplay are perfect. It made me want to read the book. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South is now one of my best-loved novels and this mini-series, an all-time favorite. DVD Review: If you like Jane Austen you will like this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
In this day and age a movie like this is rare, except a few Jane Austen movies. This movie is clean but deeply romantic. All about the importance of living an honororable life. This movie has some "Pride and Prejudice" under tones. I recomend this movie to someone who considers themselves a Jane Austen movie fan. It does have a different kind of plot then Austen movies.So do not expect it to be the same- but simaliar. Enjoy!!!!!!!!
Description of North & South
As the daughter of a middle-class parson Margaret Hale has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in rural southern England. When her father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton Margaret is shocked by the dirt the noise and the gruffness of the people but she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.Running Time: 233 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?794051245328North & South is a splendid, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely, and somewhat star-crossed, love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a hardscrabble, northern city. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale, forthright and strong-willed daughter of a former vicar (Tim Pigott-Smith) who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving, largely illiterate Milton, a factory town where John Thornton (Richard Armitage) and his mother (Sinead Cusack), survivors of poverty, rule their cotton mill with an iron hand. Thornton befriends Margaret's father but incurs her wrath for his severity with his workers. What she doesn't notice is Thornton's core sense of responsibility for his employees' welfare. On the other hand, he misinterprets some of Margaret's own actions and intentions. Equally stubborn, the two drag out their obvious attraction over many painful months and events.
North & South's two leads are both very good, though Armitage's brooding, penetrating performance may very well be considered a classic one day. There are other wonders in the cast: Cusack and Pigott-Smith are superb, and Brendan Coyle is memorable as a firebrand union organizer who ultimately becomes an ally to a softening Thornton. The miniseries script by Sandy Welch is a persuasive mix of historical context and character study. Brian Percival's direction is full of moments that linger in the imagination, such as the winter-dream look of a busy cotton mill, with thousands of snowy fibers floating in the air. --Tom Keogh
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