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Daniel Deronda

starring: Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, Hugh Bonneville, Jodhi May, Edward Fox
directed by: Tom Hooper (II)

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790777511
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790777517
Label: BBC Video
Manufacturer: BBC Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Running Time: 210 minutes
Sales Rank: 50075
Studio: BBC Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002



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Description:
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent young man, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But Gwendolen needs money more than passion, and the self-centered aristocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help, only to discover his involvement with the young Jewish singer Mirah Lapidoth.Torn between his devotion to Gwendolen and his passion for Mirah and the plight of her people, Daniel is forced to look at his own mysterious past and find out who he really is...and who he wants to be.

Amazon.com:
George Eliot's accomplished but underrated last novel is effectively, often stirringly, adapted for this 2002 BBC production, which was scripted by old pro Andrew Davies (Middlemarch) and directed with wit and subtlety by Tom Hooper (Cold Feet). Set in the 1870s, Eliot's story concerns two strong-willed young people whose self-determination is under attack by legal constraints on their rights to an inheritance. The noble Daniel (Hugh Dancy) is of dubious birth; the fiery Gwendolen (Romola Garai) can't possess her late father's estate because she's a woman. They are sympathetic to one another, but not lovers: Gwendolen is obliged to marry into wealth and becomes an unhappy bride of the scoundrel Grandcourt (Hugh Bonneville), while Daniel must sort out his feelings about the much-maligned 'Jewess,' the beautiful Mirah. Despite Garai's somewhat questionable casting, this lengthy drama--evenly divided between the two leads--never lags in insight or passion. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE
The main character couldn't act and the script was so poor that I never really figured out what the ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Plot was getting somewhere - but final chapter lets down
I personally was let down when watching the 4 part installment of this movie.
Don't get me wrong ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Daniel Deronda
This is a great movie. Hugh Dancy does a great job.

I got the product a week or so after ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Some Viewers apparently didn't get it
To judge by the majority of Amazon reviews, Daniel Deronda was seriously appreciated much more than not, ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Not worth the time it takes to get through it
Okay, I am glad that so many people enjoyed this film, but having never read the book, I had a very hard time ... Read More

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