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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0717951003423
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 03, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 18404
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 1997
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Description:
Riveting performances from an all-star cast highlight this passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money! Jennifer Jason Leigh (SINGLE WHITE FEMALE) is Catherine, a lonely young woman in search of happiness ... until she is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin -- MURDER BY NUMBERS, THE THIN RED LINE). Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, however, her controlling father (Albert Finney -- ERIN BROCKOVICH, TRAFFIC) threatens to disown Catherine if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes! You're sure to find this timeless story both powerful and entertaining.
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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 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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I am a lover of all things period and this movie does have some nice settings and costumes in it, however that is all it has to offer. All the actors do is trip over each other and whisper little to no dialogue of not much consequence. One can barely tell what the story is trying to relate the dialogue is so scant. I am sorry but just having actors stare into the camera is not great drama. I wonder did this movie have a director? But of course, it did, someone had to purposefully make all these mistakes. ... Read More
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I am from the old-school notion that if you are going to have a romantic movie, the girl should end up with the guy at the end. I don't mind drama, though there was no great meaning from her being alone in the end. This is not a pick me upper movie, and if you feel kinda like an old maid waiting for love, this old maid in the movie never finds love. The ending is horrible! Or maybe I am just too simple to understand some profound meaning of her sitting there all alone, playing her piano. I just don't get ... Read More
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Honestly, this was one of my favorite films until I read the book, and it brought to light two things that I think the director really messed up on.
1. Catherine Sloper was nowhere near as socially retarded in the book as she was in the movie. In fact, as someone said, in the movie they practically portray her as being borderline mentally challenged. In the books her faults were not as exaggerated, and consisted of her plain looks, dull personality and occasional lack of a witty retort (which happens ... Read More
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