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DVD : The ArchitectIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan directed by: Matt Tauber  List Price: $29.98 Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT EAN: 0876964000383 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Magnolia Manufacturer: Magnolia Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Magnolia Release Date: December 05, 2006 Running Time: 82 minutes Studio: Magnolia Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 29190 MPN: 10038 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Architect starring Anthony Lapaglia in the title role along with Isabella Rossellini and Viola Davis is a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (Lapaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley (Davis) is a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city s most drug and crime-infested public housing projects. As part of her ongoing campaign to have the projects torn down and decent housing built in its place Tonya decides that the one signature she needs more than any other on her petition is that of the projects original architect Leo Waters.System Requirements:Run Time: 42 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 876964000383 Manufacturer No: 10038 Amazon.com: Anthony LaPaglia, an expert at playing the conflicted Everyman, notches another such character in The Architect, a low-budget adaptation of a play by David Greig. LaPaglia plays a Chicago architect, complacent in his teaching theories and obsessed with his scale models, who doesn't comprehend the effect of his designs on the people who actually live in his buildings. Case in point: an eighties-era housing project, now overrun by gangs, drugs, and despair. It's gotten so bad that resident Viola Davis (World Trade Center) is petitioning the city to tear the place down, and she's approached the architect about signing. Meanwhile, the movie ranges across the families of both characters, including LaPaglia's massively confused teenaged kids (Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan), both of whom are trying on unfamiliar sexual roles. Isabella Rossellini plays LaPaglia's dazed wife, who straightens up the house in order to stave off the unhappiness of her marriage. In short, there's a lot going on here, too much for the brief running time of the movie; these people tend to have emblematic traits and not much else. Enlivened by actors, that kind of thing can work better on stage than in film, where the material feels skeletal. LaPaglia and Davis are in excellent form, however, and earn some of the power of the final moments. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ordinary people 30 years laterthis movie was one of the most depressing I have seen in 10 years. The DVD jacket could be called "bait and switch". nothing was said about the lack of dimension of the characters. If looking for a good movie along this type that truly is a character study try "Ordinary People". Rating:  - Waste of MoneyAbsolutely zero benefit from Blu-Ray on a movie like this, not to mention this movie just flat out stinks. I am all about the serious drama, but this was the serious sleeper, as in I could not stay awake... Rating:  - A Small Independent Film with a Big MessageTHE ARCHITECT is a film based on a play by David Grieg that deals with social class dichotomy, lack of communication in families, gender confrontations in youths, and coming to grips with decisions of the past that later haunt. Made on a budget less than a million dollars and shot in twenty days, this unique little movie packs a wallop in the most secretive and subtle way. Directed by Matt Tauber, who also wrote the screenplay with Grieg, it has a fascinating, if at times disconcerting, format ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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