Daniel Deronda From:Hugh Dancy , Romola Garai , Hugh Bonneville , Jodhi May , Edward Fox , Warner Brothers , Tom Hooper (II) , BBC Warner ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051288523
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: BBC Warner
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-04-17
Running Time: 210 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews:
 HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE, 2008-12-05
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).
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