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The nativity story / New Line Cinema presents a Temple Hill production ; produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen ; written by Mike Rich ; directed by Catherine Hardwicke.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: N10668 | New Line Home EntertainmentN10670 | New Line Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780656709
  • 9780780656703
Uniform titles:
  • Container of (work): Nativity story (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A vision -- Mary of Nazareth -- King Herod's collection -- The prophecy -- Marriage to Joseph -- A child through the Holy Spirit -- Mary visits Elizabeth -- Birth of John -- The three Wise Men journey -- Mary returns home -- Joseph's dream -- The census -- To Bethlehem -- The perilous journey -- The holy city -- Herod and the Wise Men -- Finding shelter -- The birth of Jesus -- Three gifts -- Escape to Egypt.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Robert K. Lambert ; music, Mychael Danna ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; production designer, Stefano Maria Ortolani.
Awards:
  • Dove Foundation Film Advisory Board Award winner.
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciarán Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Emilia Fortunato, Alexander Siddig.Summary: Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD New DRAMA NATIVITY Available 33111010005300
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Australian-born Whale Rider sensation and Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Annunciation, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. House of Sand and Fog's Shohreh Aghdashloo co-stars in a film with a screenplay by The Rookie and Finding Forrester scribe Mike Rich. Filmed in the village of Matera, Italy (a locale that has remained virtually untouched by modern progress and also served as the backdrop for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ), and Quarzazate, Morocco, former production designer Hardwicke's film strives for authenticity in telling the Bible's most treasured tale. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen (2.35:1) and full screen (1.33:1) presentations ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, surround.

In English with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciarán Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Emilia Fortunato, Alexander Siddig.

Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Robert K. Lambert ; music, Mychael Danna ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; production designer, Stefano Maria Ortolani.

DVD release of the 2006 motion picture.

A vision -- Mary of Nazareth -- King Herod's collection -- The prophecy -- Marriage to Joseph -- A child through the Holy Spirit -- Mary visits Elizabeth -- Birth of John -- The three Wise Men journey -- Mary returns home -- Joseph's dream -- The census -- To Bethlehem -- The perilous journey -- The holy city -- Herod and the Wise Men -- Finding shelter -- The birth of Jesus -- Three gifts -- Escape to Egypt.

MPAA rating: PG; for some violent content.

Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.

Dove Foundation Film Advisory Board Award winner.

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