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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 20, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Russell Crowe & Paul Bettany | |
Performer: | Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, George Innes, Mark Lewis Jones, Robert Pugh, David Threlfall & Edward Woodall | |
Directed by | Peter Weir | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Weir | |
Composition by | Christopher Gordon, Iva Davies & Richard Tognetti | |
Produced by | Peter Weir, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. & Duncan Henderson | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Boyd | |
Executive Production by | Alan B. Curtiss |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2003 -
Best Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Entertainment Reviews:
[M]ost of the action of Peter Weir’s movie, an adaptation of Patrick O’Brian’s popular series of seafaring novels, is of a far calmer variety, delving into the curious human ecosystem of a British warship.
The Atlantic
[A]n intelligent movie about men tested by the sea. Director Peter Weir mounts an impressive production...
Chicago Sun-Times
There aren't too many films that can combine intelligence and thrills, but Master and Commander succeeds on both counts.
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Bowling Green Daily News
[T]his is a plain old good movie….it ought to find fans among the young and the old and both genders.
USA Today
Rating: A --
Crowe and director Peter Weir have thrown the cliche overboard and replaced them with great storytelling. Run -- don't walk. I liked it so much i wanted to enlist.
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Good Morning America
The detailed depiction of shipboard life is total and overwhelming.
Uncut
It never achieves the visual elegance or majesty that a David Lean might have provided. The story line isn't the freshest. And yet the film is satisfying all the same.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Product Description:
Based on a series of books by Patrick O'Brian, and directed by Peter Weir, MASTER AND COMMANDER plunges viewers deep into the story of a British Navy ship at sea during the Napoleonic war. Russell Crowe stars as Aubrey, the charismatic captain who wrestles with issues like honor, pride, duty, sacrifice and loyalty while using ingenious tactics to engage his prey--a much larger and better-equipped French Man o' War. Paul Bettany plays his friend, the ship's doctor, who cautions Aubrey about letting revenge cloud his judgment after the French Man o' War almost sinks them in an early battle. Before the incredibly intense final skirmish the men battle a raging storm, launch an excursion to the Galapagos Islands, find time for grog-enhanced merriment, and endure some primitive surgery. Weir fills the film with a rich wealth of period detail, convincing dialogue, and the same haunting, dreamlike mood that has informed his best films, such as PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, THE LAST WAVE and THE TRUMAN SHOW. The wealth of sounds and sights on display are so evocative one can practically smell the salt air and feel the heave of the ocean. Russell is intense and inspiring as Aubrey, and Bettany proves a worthy match. MASTER AND COMMANDER is another triumph for Weir, and further evidence of his ability to fuse poetic realism with rousing entertainment.
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Product Info
- UPC: 024543114215
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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