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VHS : Daniel DerondaIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790777528 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790777525 Label: BBC Video Manufacturer: BBC Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: BBC Video Release Date: April 01, 2003 Studio: BBC Video Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Sales Rank: 10332 Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent young man, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Amazon.com: George Eliot's accomplished but underrated last novel is effectively, often stirringly, adapted for this 2002 BBC production, which was scripted by old pro Andrew Davies (Middlemarch) and directed with wit and subtlety by Tom Hooper (Cold Feet). Set in the 1870s, Eliot's story concerns two strong-willed young people whose self-determination is under attack by legal constraints on their rights to an inheritance. The noble Daniel (Hugh Dancy) is of dubious birth; the fiery Gwendolen (Romola Garai) can't possess her late father's estate because she's a woman. They are sympathetic to one another, but not lovers: Gwendolen is obliged to marry into wealth and becomes an unhappy bride of the scoundrel Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville), while Daniel must sort out his feelings about the much-maligned "Jewess," the beautiful Mirah. Despite Garai's somewhat questionable casting, this lengthy drama--evenly divided between the two leads--never lags in insight or passion. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLEThe main character couldn't act and the script was so poor that I never really figured out what the plot was until the end. Gwendolyn was egotistical and selfish and then later- pathetic and needy. Daniel just wandered around lost the whole time. Mirah was a weak character... This seemed to be a movie (at the end, anyway) about how terrible English society was when compared to the unfortunate Jews. It tries to be interesting and complex, but it fails miserably. At the end, I felt like I've ... Read More Rating:  - Plot was getting somewhere - but final chapter lets downI personally was let down when watching the 4 part installment of this movie. Don't get me wrong - the acting is wonderful, the costume amazing, and the storyline had promise........ but it seems as if it just ended kind of cheezy and abruptly. My Complaints: *I didn't care for the amount of time spent in Duronda searching/delving/debating his Jewish past....it became dragged out and almost too religous. *I like Jodhi May - but her expressions when she is upset ... Read More Rating: - Daniel DerondaThis is a great movie. Hugh Dancy does a great job. I got the product a week or so after it was ordered and it's in excellent condition. Rating:  - Some Viewers apparently didn't get itTo judge by the majority of Amazon reviews, Daniel Deronda was seriously appreciated much more than not, which is certainly as it should be. On the ImdB, however, there are some opinions, mostly about the ultimate developments of the story, which I find disturbing. I will give nothing of the plot away, except to say that the DVD ends the way the book ends, and why is this so unacceptable? Phil Gramm got in trouble for calling the U.S. a nation of whiners. Since I have no position to lose, ... Read More Rating:  - Not worth the time it takes to get through itOkay, I am glad that so many people enjoyed this film, but having never read the book, I had a very hard time getting through it. Let me start off by saying that I love period dramas, but this film was terrible. I didn't like ANY of the characters, and the supposed lovers of the film barely speak to each other. No one in this film is happy, and for the most part, they don't deserve to be. There is lots of whining and complaining about why life has to be so difficult and unfair, but I just want them ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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