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DVD : Enduring Love (Widescreen Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Bill Weston, Jeremy McCurdie, Lee Sheward directed by: Roger Michell  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Paramount EAN: 9781415711002 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 1415711003 Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 03, 2005 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Sales Rank: 7660 MPN: PARD344154D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: In ENDURING LOVE, a Joe (Craig) and Claire's (Morton) romantic picnic is disrupted after a hot air balloon drifts into a field, appearing to be in trouble. Inside the balloon is a young boy and the pilot whose leg gets tangles in the anchor rope. After three men, including Joe, rush to secure the basket and try to save the two passengers, it seems they cannot rescue the pilot, who eventually falls to his death and the young boy remains unscathed. When Joe and one of the other men, Jed, go to retrieve the body of the fallen man, Jed feels an instant connection with Joe--one that, as the weeks go by, becomes ever more intense. Amazon.com: A red hot-air balloon floating gracefully over the green English countryside leads to a shocking death in Enduring Love, an eerie and hypnotic movie based on a novel by Ian McEwan. Two men tried and failed to help, and afterwards Joe (Daniel Craig, Sylvia, The Mother) finds himself being stalked by the hungry-eyed Jed (Rhys Ifans, Vanity Fair, Human Nature). Like a gangly wraith, Jed follows Joe and begs him to recognize the passionate love Jed feels certain was sparked by the balloon accident. Jed's obsession crawls into Joe's head and his life, clawing at his happy relationship with his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar, Minority Report) and derailing Joe into an obsessive spiral of his own. Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Craig and Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Enduring Skill of Daniel CraigThose unfamiliar with Daniel Craig prior to his brawny beefcake turn as 007 are in for a bit of a shock; like Daniel Day-Lewis, Mr. Craig molds his persona to suit each individual role and is unafraid to make extreme changes in his physical appearance to convey character. Here he plays Joe, a mild-mannered professor, whose placid domestic life with his girlfriend is disrupted by witnessing a freak accident. Joe's marriage proposal is ruined when a hot-air balloon comes crashing into the field where ... Read More Rating: - slow moving movie that tears at the emotionsThis movie has one heck of a beginning. While romantically picnicking, Joe (Daniel Craig) and his live-in girlfriend watch a red balloon fall to the ground, an older adult tumbles out as a boy remains trapped inside. The balloon starts to move. The grandfather desperately tugs on the rope attached to the basket in the hopes of keeping his grandson close to the ground. Joe runs to help him as does several other passer bys. All of the men valiantly pull together to keep the balloon down and help the ... Read More Rating:  - Enduring LoveWhile I really like Daniel Craig, and he did some fine acting in this movie, the story made no sense and I had a hard time following the convoluted story line. Rating:  - A fascinating exploration of the psychological nature of loveTo truly appreciate this movie, I think, is to see it as largely metaphorical. Those critics who dismissed it as typical--and not very interesting--stalker fare have completely missed the boat, and I daresay are not observant or imaginitive enough to be good at their jobs. For the central question the film poses reflects the double meaning in the title: Can real, emotional love be enduring, or is it merely something to be endured? Is love a cruel trick of basic animal biology, as unreliable and enexpected ... Read More Rating:  - A Waste of TimeA hapless existentialist and random stalker make for the loony bin. The acting is decent, but as the mystery unravels, it becomes clear the plot was as poorly conceived as any other stalker movie (e.g. Scream II). The main character, the professor (the new Bond), never does what you want him to do, making him predictably annoying. The unwieldy camera effects and cliche or alternatively random dialogue do not help make the movie any more convincing. Browse for similar items by category:
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