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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 3357805022971
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 4.0FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 4.0
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 115 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997
Editorial Review:
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In biographies written before 1990, Jennifer Jason Leigh claims to have been born in 1958. Recently, she's changed that to 1962. In either case, she definitely looks a bit odd in this 1998 release playing a 20-year-old opposite the youthful Ben Chaplin. Even stranger is the fact that she's been cast as the ugly girl; after all, she was voted one of America's 10 most beautiful women by Harper's Bazaar. Still, this film captures to a T the Henry James novel on which it is based. The story concerns Catherine Sloper, a 19th-century heiress whose father disapproves of the man she loves. In a twisty plot, questions are raised about both her father's and her suitor's motives, and Catherine must untangle the connections between love and money. This provides fodder for Henry James's critiques of the shallowness and sexism of his society. Some find James's work stiff, self-important, and a bit dull, while others see him as the most astute social critic of his time, so your enjoyment of this film may be a matter of taste. But it's definitely a period piece done right, which is to say that it fully captures its era, and never stoops to anachronisms that would interrupt the viewer's sense of an older, crueler world. --James DiGiovanna
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I saw this movie about five years ago and liked it, but was a bit disappointed in the ending. I'm a big fan of movies based on books by Jane Austen, so I'm used to everything working out in the end. Recently I viewed "Washington Square" a second time and found it extremely compelling and thought provoking (as well as being entertaining). Catherine and Morris are complex characters and you never really know exactly what they are thinking or what their motivations truly are. I think Morris wanted ... Read More
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Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as Catherine Soper in this film version of Henry James' "Washington Square" is one of the great acting cameos of the 1990s.Cruelly exposed to her father's psychological abuse,we see her undergo agonies of low self-esteem and self-loathing until,in the movie's final stages,the worm turns.It is this transformation at the end of the film that leaves us dwelling upon what has preceded it.In addition to the cold downputting by her father,played convincingly by Albert Finney,Catherine ... Read More
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An excellent print of a very enjoyable movie. The print quality is most important to me.
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I have both versions of this movie; the original being
"The Heiress" with Olivia deHavilland, but Jennifer Jason Leigh was made for this role. Excellent cast, excellent film!!
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Washington Square is a remake of The Heiress, which starred Olivia De Havilland and Montgomery Clift in 1949. Amazon.com was the only place I could find this DVD. Jennifer Jason Leigh is superb as the lonely young woman in search of happiness, and Albert Finney is hateful as her overbearing father who does not love her. I enjoy this version just as much as the original.
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