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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HBO HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0026359331121
Feature: Drama) The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this decidedly low-key take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the early 1980s diet craze. Despite the popularity of the Dr. Tarnower's revolutionary "lose
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: 93311
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Features:- Drama) The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this decidedly low-key take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet" Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the early 1980s diet craze. Despite the popularity of the Dr. Tarnower's revolutionary "lose
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Product Description:
FACT-BASED STORY ABOUT JEAN HARRIS, A WOMAN WHO ACCUSED OF MURDERING FAMED SCARSDALE DIET DR. HERMAN TARNOWER AFTER BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM FOR 14 YEARS.
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Mrs. Harris is HBO's fact-based tale about the tumultuous relationship between Jean Harris and Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower, whom she is accused of shooting to death in a jealous fit of rage. But it's also a cautionary tale about what can happen when a woman is so obsessed with a man she'd rather die--or kill--than be left behind. As Harris notes when she's on trial for his murder, she doesn't understand how "something that ugly and sad could've happened between two people who didn't argue, except over the use of the subjunctive." As the oddly paired lovers, Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley do a formidable job with their roles. She is a well-educated social climber teaching at a girls' prep school. He is a wealthy doctor who loves her enough to propose marriage, but not enough to go through with it. She sticks around for 14 years, hoping she'll outlast all his other mistresses. When her best friend suggests she find someone worthy of her, Harris scoffs, "I despise decent men. ... Cruelty isn't a crime. Boredom is." Unfortunately, the film--even with all the sensationalistic background material--is a meandering production that evokes boredom and impatience rather than viewer's pity, anger, or understanding. --Jae-Ha Kim
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Ben Kingsley is an inspired choice to play the bald-headed diet doc who gets shot by his jealous middle-aged girlfriend way back in 1980. This was tabloid manna back then, and this newer film manages to convey why Mrs. Harris probably shot the guy. He was a creep. What doesn't make sense is why she was so nuts about him. The film doesn't get that message over very well. Still, this is pretty entertaining stuff about a slice of 1970s society.
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If you have seen the earlier film made about the infamous Jean Harris and her "killing" of Scarsdale Diet Guru Hy Tarnower entitled The People Vs. Jean Harris.Neither is very compelling,as the the story and trial in real life is more sensational than it is interesting fodder for a movie.Because the real life story is from the perspective of a woman who, to this day we are not sure what the real story is over the relationship of Harris and Tarnower,(he's dead... so dead men can't talk!), then the ... Read More
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I became a fan of the movie after my first viewing and have DVR'd it so I can watch whenever I want. Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening give wonderful performances, the chemistry between these two makes this a movie worth watching. If Dr. Herman Tarnower was a rich self-centered womanizing jerk, then Ben Kingsley conveyed that in so many ways. I was really entertained with the way these two communicated with each other throughout the movie, for example when Jean begged her lover to stop concentrating ... Read More
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A courtroom drama that doesn't unfold in the courtroom at all. It is told through a story line with two different views on what happened that fateful night. It'll make you wonder what really took place.
Fine, fine performance by Annette Bening. Has she ever made a bad movie?Ben Kingsley usually always does well in his roles too (see the powerful movie 'House of Sand and Fog' or 'Death and the Maiden').
A well recommended movie.
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I watch this movie everytime it comes on HBO--and everytime I am beside myself laughing. Annette Bening does a brilliant job of portraying one woman's slow spiral out of control, having been driven to the breaking point over her love for the Scarsdale Diet doctor. Her descent into complete madness is remarkably eerie and believable. Her irrational comments are side-splittingly funny.
Adding to this wonderful character study is the satiric tone of the entire film and the fake-documentary ... Read More
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