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Children of the Revolution DVD

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936220469
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: DISD30914D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 1997




 

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Product Description:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/09/2006 Rating: R

Amazon.com:
Australia's most consistently fascinating export, Judy Davis has made a career of playing intriguingly high-strung women with a hilariously icy edge. Here, she plays the leader of Australia's Communist Party in the early 1950s whose struggles to keep the party alive are rewarded with a trip to Russia to meet Stalin himself (F. Murray Abraham). The meeting turns into a seduction, and she returns to Australia carrying Stalin's love child. So it's no surprise when her son Joe (Richard Roxburgh) grows up to be a political rabble-rouser, bringing the country to the brink of disaster. Filmed in mockumentary fashion by writer-director Peter Duncan, the film is never quite as funny as you wish it would be, but works as well as it does because of the performances by Rush and, particularly, Davis. --Marshall Fine



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Cineam at its best!
Sam Neil at his best. The writers should be comende for a great piece of political satire!



Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - "I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing."
1996 Australian black comedy Children of the Revolution is one of those ideas that sounds better on paper than it plays on screen. It's the Cold War and Judy Davis is a hardline doctrinaire Communist oblivious to sad sack boyfriend Geoffrey Rush's attempts to win her hand because her heart belongs to Josef Stalin. When the dictator gets to see her letters - and more importantly her photo - he invites her to Moscow where a night of passion leaves him dead and her pregnant. Marrying Rush and raising ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best Aussie flick since Gallipoli
This wonderful, sparkling bubbly commentary is simply a masterpiece. Showing the exploits of a Communist mother and her suspecting son this movie is not only a commentary on COmmunism and the excess of liberalism but it is also a hilarious film with an amazing funny cast and a profound group of intrigue. The main character is followed through his life as he slowly realizes he is none other then the son of Stalin, the man his mother loves but who he learns to loathe. Yet as time goes on the viewer ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The difference a moustache can make
This is an extremely original and well made farce. the film is generally comical but there are some tragic overtones throughout. The story of the idealist leader of the Australian communists earns a trip to meet Stalin in Moscow. The visit provides the setting for some of the funniest moments in the film. The idea of Stalin dancing and singing is funny in itself, imagine watching it realized on screen. But this comical interlude provides the crucial elemnt of the plot, the conception of Stalin's son. ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Wicked
A real find. The film starts out as a broad satire (perhaps just a bit too broad), then sharpens to a steely point in the second half.Judy Davis has never been more ferocious (and that's really saying something). A romp, but one that leaves bruises. Grab it.





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