The Search for John Gissing
by Mike Binder
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Actor: Alan Rickman, Janeane Garofalo, Juliet Stevenson, Mike Binder, Owen TealeDirector: Mike Binder
Cinematographer: Sue Gibson
Composer: Larry Groupe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of The Search for John Gissing
DVD Review: Uncaring seller
Summary: 1 Stars
I have no way of knowing about this product.The seller did not ship nor return 3 E-Mails. Got a refund. Amazon should conduct an investigation of this seller based on the amount of negatives listed.DVD Review: Funny film
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a very funny movie. Alan Rickman is really the better and shows all his talent in this film. Happyness!DVD Review: I Love this movie!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful movie for any Alan Rickman fan. This is an extremely funny movie. I laughed so hard at the intelligent wit and complete humor of the movie.DVD Review: Searching for laughs
Summary: 4 Stars
I got my copy when it was first available thru the film maker. It's funny -- often hysterically so. That said, I could have lived without the massive amounts of profanity. My favourite scene is when Gissing (Rickman's character) is minus his glasses and trying to make a big presentation. He is sandbagged in spades by the man he sandbagged earlier. When they finally join forces, stand by for more laughs at the expense of the stuff-shirted "boss," come to town to take over.
As other reviews have indicated, it's Rickman who steals the show (as usual in his films). In comedy, it's all about timing; and Rickman is as good as George Burns!
DVD Review: Rickman's Comic Genius
Summary: 5 Stars
I paid an arm and a leg to get this movie to add to my Rickman collection before it was widely available, and it was worth it. Alan Rickman has described himself an instrument. He is most known for "playing that instrument" as a heavy, and even as a romatic lead. He does each brilliantly. But in Gissing, he proves that he also has perfect comic timing. The movie is a little choppy in its transition editing, perhaps because someone thought this was creative. It is not. However Alan Rickman's performance is incredible. If you are a Rickman fan, you absolutely must own this. If your don't know much about him (where HAVE you been?), you will be a fan when you see this.
Description of The Search for John Gissing
Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/12/2008Mike Binder wrote, directed, and stars in this smart comedy set in corporate London. Akin to television series The Office, and many other feature length comedies about vicious takeovers, bureaucracy, and foul business practice like 9 to 5, The Search for John Gissing also stars Alan Rickman as Gissing, a British fellow out to foil Matthew Barnes, the fumbling Woody Allen-type character portrayed by Binder. This revenge tale opens with Gissing inviting Barnes and his wife, Linda (Janeane Garofalo), to London to sign a merger with a German company. From the second Matthew and Linda step off the plane, plans fall through, income disappears, and Gissing steadily botches Barnes' attempts to succeed in this new environment. Clever characters, like Francois Fuller (Allan Corduner), the French CEO whose accent confounds Matthew with his New York dialect, and Sister Mary (Sonya Walger), the sexy nun, compliment the Barnes' and their archenemy, Gissing. Since the story is about a rather straightforward competition between the two men, one can focus on the sharp-witted script and the ways Rickman, Binder, and Garofalo infuse their characters with realistic quirks and neuroses. Garofalo transforms Linda into an understanding, but opinionated, wife. Binder's underdog persona slowly dissolves to reveal a strong, intelligent "soldier" in his businessman's "war." Rickman's Gissing is a suave, yet somehow dorky villain whose ill intentions are ultimately rooted in a fear of losing power. As each of the three main characters come to clarify priorities in their personal lives, they begin to see that they are not so opposite after all. --Trinie Dalton
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