The Trial
starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson, Polly Walker (II)
directed by: David Hugh Jones
directed by: David Hugh Jones
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381426526
Format: Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 11, 1998
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 38456
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-04
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On the morning of his 30th birthday, Joseph K. wakes up to every person's worst nightmare when two strange men enter his home and place him under arrest. He doesn't take the charges seriously. When summoned to a hearing, he refuese to accept the case being brought against him. The more he fights the system, the more confused and destructive things become.
Amazon.com:
On the morning of his 30th birthday, senior bank clerk Josef K. is put under arrest by men who refuse to identify themselves. He's not taken into custody, and nobody will--or even can--tell him the charges against him. Josef refuses to take it seriously, and thus begins his descent into the mad vagaries of a court system that is as enigmatic as it is ominous. This BBC coproduction of the Franz Kafka book features a screenplay by Harold Pinter (Turtle Diary, The French Lieutenant's Woman) that starts out full of wit and menace, but loses steam in the second half and delivers a flat and confusing ending. Kyle MacLachlan is perfectly cast as a sort of yuppie Josef K. who's so self-involved and complacent that he cannot express proper outrage at the injustice. Although he's second-billed, Anthony Hopkins's role as the priest is more of a cameo. Polly Walker and Alfred Molina (a standout as the court painter, Titorelli) both seem to get Kafka's cosmic joke. Beautifully filmed in Prague. --Geof Miller
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- Not a bad film, considering pinter doesn't understand kafkaKafka is my favorite modern writer. Anyone who wants to understand Kafka should read Ruth Tiefenbaum's ... Read More
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- Great move--TERRIBLE DVDI give the movie five stars. The DVD, one (see below). I won't focus much on the merits of the film aside from ... Read More
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- It's an allegory!!At some point in your life you begin to question all of the reasons you used to give yourself to explain why you ... Read More
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- It's an allegory!!At some point in your life you begin to question all of the reasons you used to give yourself to explain why you ... Read More
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