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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: KOCH ENT.
EAN: 0741952666691
Feature: Two men are brought together after their wives die on the same day in the same hospital. Lonely, devastated, and struggling to rebuild their lives, ex-RAF fighter pilot Reggie Conyngham-Jervis and former milkman Roy Southgate move in together. Here commences a touching story--with exceptional performances by Finney and Courtenay--about an unlikely pair trying to make amends with their lives, losse
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: E1 Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: E1 Entertainment
MPN: KOC-DV-6666
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: E1 Entertainment
Release Date: April 07, 2009
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: E1 Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Features:- Two men are brought together after their wives die on the same day in the same hospital. Lonely, devastated, and struggling to rebuild their lives, ex-RAF fighter pilot Reggie Conyngham-Jervis and former milkman Roy Southgate move in together. Here commences a touching story--with exceptional performances by Finney and Courtenay--about an unlikely pair trying to make amends with their lives, losse
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Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 04/07/2009 Run time: 104 minutes
Amazon.com:
The best part of ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader Reggie Cunningham-Jarvis's life was obviously World War II (just ask anyone at his local pub), when he and his comrades won the Battle of Britain from the cockpits of Spitfire fighter planes. After that, Reggie (Albert Finney) married into money and didn't do much else for the next 40 or so years, except turn into his own, blustering idea of a pillar of English resoluteness. Meanwhile, a fellow veteran, Roy Southgate (Tom Courtenay), who saw the war from the ground, spent his productive years quietly as a milkman, devoted husband, and tragically failed father. When the wives of each of these men die on the same day in the same hospital room, an unlikely bond is established, leading to an experiment in shared housing with a spurious yet, for Reggie and Roy, somehow comforting class division between them. This very rewarding British comedy-drama, based on a novel by Angela Lambert, is rich in character, beautifully crafted dialogue, and vital performances from two of the finest actors in the world. Just to gild the lily, Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) is cast as one of the most sympathetic gold diggers in film history, but the real hook here for movie fans is the reuniting of Finney and Courtenay in roles not terribly dissimilar to those they played in the 1983 hit The Dresser. Not just for Anglophiles, A Rather English Marriage is a touching, vigorous delight. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
but not riveting make sure you put subtitles on as dialogue gets very gravelly......albert finney is sad to see and sometimes hard to understand
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Reggie Conyngham-Jervis: You are a prissy little tight ass bastard aren't you, Southgate?
Roy Southgate: If you say so, sir.
Marvelous,humorous,sad and lovely; a few words to describe this film. Albert Finney plays Reggie, a Squadron Leader in the RAF during WWII, and he thinks of those years as the best of his life. He meets up with a man,
Roy, played by Tom Courtenay in hospital where both have wives who were dying. They saw each other several times and in fact, both ... Read More
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This is one of those wonderful British films that are hilarious and poignant at the same time. One feels free to laugh at events which would ordinarily be sad, or even tragic. There is always, however, an underlying tenderness - an emotion which the British films can so effortlessly evoke.
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Shown on Masterpiece Theatre (during the Russell Baker years), this reunites two spectacularly fine actors of British cinema's "angry young man" era. The virile Albert Finney of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, and the subtle Tom Courtenay of Billy Liar or The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, may come to mind again as you watch them in this twilight story of two widowers learning to live without their wives of forty years.
Finney plays something of a lion in winter, a self ... Read More
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Film doesn't get any better than this, in a splendid production.
Ignore the popcorn movies and have yourself a real treat, watching truly great actors doing what they do best.
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