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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783125695
Feature: The year is 1932 and Tony and Brenda Last (James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas), a devoted and attractive couple with one son, John Andrew, appear to live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian Gothic house which is the symbol of Tony's family pride. One weekend they inadvertently play host to John Beaver (Rupert Graves), an idle young socialite. It is the chance arrival of this penniless scrounge
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0783125690
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: 92126
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1988
Features:- The year is 1932 and Tony and Brenda Last (James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas), a devoted and attractive couple with one son, John Andrew, appear to live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian Gothic house which is the symbol of Tony's family pride. One weekend they inadvertently play host to John Beaver (Rupert Graves), an idle young socialite. It is the chance arrival of this penniless scrounge
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Product Description:
The year is 1932 and Tony and Brenda Last (James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas) a devoted and attractive couple with one son John Andrew appear to live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian Gothic house which is the symbol of Tony's family pride. One weekend they inadvertently play host to John Beaver (Rupert Graves) an idle young socialite. It is the chance arrival of this penniless scrounger which irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359212628
Amazon.com:
Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's Jazz Age satire, A Handful of Dust is a brutal story of a failed marriage with shattering consquences. James Wilby stars as a country gentleman, Tony Last, who loves rattling around his expansive estate, Hetton Abbey. Tony's wife, Brenda (Kristin Scott Thomas), however, pines for London's excitement and commences an affair in the city with penniless aristocrat John Beaver (Rupert Graves). The fallout of Brenda's betrayal includes a family tragedy and creative divorce settlement ultimately undone when fed-up Tony goes on a naturalist trek through Brazil and becomes the hostage of a mad, illiterate explorer (Alec Guinness). One might wonder whether it's more appropriate to laugh or tremble at these events, and director Charles Sturridge's handsome, graceful production ingeniously accomodates the story's streaks of dark comedy and horror. With brief, memorable supporting roles for Anjelica Huston and Stephen Fry. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
A Handful of Dust is arguably Evelyn Waughs finest novel, striking a perfect balance between dark humour and aching tragedy without indulging in the baroque excesses that make Brideshead so tempting and yet so flawed. In fact, HoD shares some of its themes with Brideshead Revisited, especially the threat posed to traditional aristocratic country life by a vapid modern lifestyle, and the destruction of the great English country house. But while at the end of Brideshead Charles Ryder has found redemption ... Read More
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Let me make this easy for you. Tony & Brenda are married to each other, but split up because Brenda is unfaithful. Tony goes to Brazil on what he thinks is an adventure, and ends up trapped there. Everyone back in the UK is falsely led to think he is dead by a man who keeps Tony a virtual prisoner so that he will read Charles Dickens books to him. A funeral is held for Tony back home, who is actually still alive. And the movie ends. Wow, did I ever get a lot out of that.
You might ask, how ... Read More
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The story opens in 1932, in the magnificent country home of Tony and Brenda Last (James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas). Tony loves puttering around the old manor, while Brenda longs for the party life in London. Out of sheer boredom, she begins an affair with a social-climbing mama's boy (Rupert Graves).
As the title indicates, this is a grim story, the first part being a rather typical domestic drama focusing on the stuffy, idle rich. No one plays the snobby aristocrat better than Thomas, ... Read More
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Brenda and Tony Last live in a quirky English country house. Tony is perfectly content with their quiet country life with their precocious little son. Brenda, however, is bored and stupid. She longs for the shallow party life in London. She lacks morals, brains, and taste. She becomes involved with an equally shallow person, John Beaver. He's a penniless fop, who relies on being invited to dinner and parties to keep himself fed. You want to slap Brenda for being so stupid and selfish. You want to ... Read More
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What a GREAT movie! Movie in exact condition as stated by seller. perfect condition. Arrival of movie very quick.Would definitely order again from seller.
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