Scandal [Import]
The story that seduced the world is now the most controversial film of the year.
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DVD Details
- 4:3 Full Screen
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 23, 2010
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda & Ian McKellen | |
Performer: | Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey, Roland Gift & Jeroen Krabbé | |
Directed by | Michael Caton-Jones | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Thomas | |
Composition by | Carl Davis | |
Produced by | Stephen Woolley | |
Director of Photography: | Mike Molloy | |
Executive Production by | Joe Boyd, Nik Powell, Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The film holds because of the brilliance of Hurt and the fascination of Whalley-Kilmer, as well as the sly, tongue-in-cheek viciousness of Bridget Fonda's Mandy Rice-Davies.
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Los Angeles Times
Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll.
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TIME Magazine
Call it a hindsight view of British history, an unnecessarily controversial film about the uses of sex, or a perverse love story -- any of the descriptions will fit Scandal.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Caton-Jones is not the most stylistically assured of filmmakers, but his ability with actors is obvious. For this project, that is enough to turn the flat conventions of the docudrama into something resembling life.
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Chicago Tribune
Michael Caton-Jones' Scandal tries to recreate those muddied times for the British in a sex-laden but leaden film that's held together only by John Hurt's strong performance as Stephen Ward.
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Associated Press
A quality cast, polished writing and the atmospheric evocation of Soho and Whitehall sleaze make for a powerful depiction of Ward's fall from grace.
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Film4
Rating: 3/4 --
Instead of sleaze, director Caton-Jones and screenwriter Michael Thomas deliver a vindication of the affair's chief scapegoats -- Ward and Keeler -- in the form of a two-hour nostalgia trip, with some complex and powerful performances.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
NTSC/Region 0. English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963.
Keywords:
British
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Politics
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- UPC: 8809151397029
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