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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790794051
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0790794055
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: WARDE2021D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on the award winning play by julian mitchell the film explores the effect of public school life in the 1930s on guy bennett (rupert everett) as his homosexuality and unwillingness to play the game turns him eastwards towards communist russia. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/12/2005 Starring: Colin Firth Rupert Everett Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Marek Kanievska
Amazon.com:
An indictment of the British class system dressed up like a Ralph Lauren ad, Another Country is the movie that made a very young and very gorgeous Rupert Everett a star. Whatever other ideas it has knocking around its head (and there are quite a lot of them), director Marek Kanievska's adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play is first and foremost a star vehicle for Everett, who played the openly gay main character with a vigor, flair, and smoldering appeal that was rarely seen onscreen in the early '80s. Everett is Guy Bennett, a charming, confident schoolboy in 1930s England who yearns to climb to the top of the social strata at his Eton-like school. His ambitions, however, are waylaid by the young and equally gorgeous James Harcourt (Cary Elwes), with whom he begins a passionate yet secret affair. Soon, however, Guy finds that balancing his love and his ambition is a no-win situation, and that no matter how hard he bucks against it, the ages-old traditional structures of British class and etiquette won't yield in his wake. Added to all this E.M. Forster-style drama and romance is the fact that Guy later on becomes a spy for the Russians against England; it's a weighty theme to drop on the movie, and the fact that it's a true story just shows how less than artfully the film unfolds. Still, holding it all together is the sublime Everett, who took this persona of the classy, beautiful, passionate, British gay man and ran with it throughout the '80s and '90s. With Colin Firth as Everett's Marxist (and heterosexual) compatriot. --Mark Englehart
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As the story opens, a British traitor describes the beginnings of his rebellion at a posh public school in the 1930s. In the flashback, we follow classmates Guy and Tommy (Rupert Everett and Colin Firth); Guy is struggling with hiding his homosexuality and Tommy is a budding Marxist.
This fictionalized account of infamous spy Guy Burgess' youth is a fascinating look at that very British institution, the public school with its young aristocrats luxuriating in their privileged lives. ... Read More
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The Bottom Line:
This stellar film adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play theorizes that the overwhelming snobbery, hypocrisy, and cold-blooded elitism that fueled British public schools directly led to "the Cambridge Five" betraying British secrets to the Soviet Union; totally involving and displaying a rare grasp of character, Another Country is a film to make 90 minutes for.
3.5/4
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This film has multiple levels of involvement for everyone. Following the playwright's original intent (via the DVD's special features), it's much more a commentary or observation on British life and society over the decades as anything else. It's obviously directed square at Eton College, but for my money, doesn't ever go overboard. Yes, they had fags, young boys who did things at the behest of the older boys, but they are not portrayed as being at all abused. Yes, they caned each other, but the ... Read More
Rating:  -
It is odd what Cannes would allow in 1984. Among them a British film at the cusp of the British Film Movement about a group of closeted homosexual boys, unwilling to leave the comfort of their university, of which one eventually becomes the coveted Russian spy Guy Burgess (or at least a small transgression). On several top ten lists of international critics, this viewer had trouble understanding the overall tones, themes, and relative points to the film. Was this a simple love story? Was this ... Read More
Rating:  -
I was bored to tears!!! This is a real lackluster movie. Dialogue poor, cinematography ordinary and the acting boring. Believe me, you can't wait to see this sleeper....yawn!
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