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The Elephant Man

starring: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Fanny Carby, Gerald Case, Claire Davenport

: The Elephant Man
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792177319
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792177312
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 5763
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1980



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Amazon.com:
You could only see his eyes behind the layers of makeup, but those expressive orbs earned John Hurt a well-deserved Oscar nomination for his moving portrayal of John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed Victorian-era man better known as The Elephant Man. Inarticulate and abused, Merrick is the virtual slave of a carnival barker (Freddie Jones) until dedicated London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins in a powerfully understated performance) rescues him from the life and offers him an existence with dignity. Anne Bancroft costars as the actress whose visit to Merrick makes him a social curiosity, with John Gielgud and Wendy Hiller as dubious hospital staffers won over by Merrick. David Lynch earned his only Oscar nominations as director and cowriter of this somber drama, which he shot in a rich black-and-white palette, a sometimes stark, sometimes dreamy visual style that at times recalls the offbeat expressionism of his first film, Eraserhead. It remains a perfect marriage between traditional Hollywood historical drama and Lynch's unique cinematic eye, a compassionate human tale delivered in a gothic vein. The film earned eight Oscar nominations in all, and though it left the Oscar race empty-handed, its dramatic power and handsome yet haunting imagery remain just as strong today. --Sean Axmaker



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 4 stars out of 4
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Expertly directed, painfully acted, and shot in a way that makes the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Painfully sad to watch but a true classic
Rightly regarded as one of the classic British films of the last decades, this broadly true tale of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the most powerful films in existence
This is an incredible film and one of my all time favorites. I first saw it on cable TV when I was only ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A sad, sad film....
The film opens under the tent of a circus. The Elephant Man is the main attraction of the freak shows. A ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Too melodramatic and predictable
A man and the lifetime conflict of his existence and the self acception... Despite the fact it was based ... Read More

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