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Enchanted April [videorecording] / Miramax Home Entertainment presents a BBC Films production in association with Greenpoint Films ; producer, Ann Scott ; screenplay by Peter Barnes ; directed by Mike Newell.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 101160 | Miramax Home EntertainmentSeries: Miramax award-winning collectionPublication details: Burbank, CA : Miramax Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2009]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0788895001
  • 9780788895005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Photography, Rex Maidment ; music, Richard Rodney Bennett.
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina, Michael Kitchen, Jim Broadbent.Summary: London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and believes that she is sick of men. They arrive in San Salvatore. The seaside italian castle is drenched in wisteria and sunshine. The women find themselves in a transformative beauty so enchanting that they experience changes in themselves they never thought possible.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA Enchante Available 33111006662080
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a bottomless reserve of brilliant dialogue. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992.

Special features: Audio commentary with filmmakers.

Photography, Rex Maidment ; music, Richard Rodney Bennett.

Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina, Michael Kitchen, Jim Broadbent.

London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and believes that she is sick of men. They arrive in San Salvatore. The seaside italian castle is drenched in wisteria and sunshine. The women find themselves in a transformative beauty so enchanting that they experience changes in themselves they never thought possible.

MPAA rating: PG; for some mild language.

DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Widescreen (1.85:1, enhanced); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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