The Special Relationship
Never underestimate the politics of friendship
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 30, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: HBO Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Michael Sheen, Helen McCrory, Dennis Quaid & Hope Davis | |
| Directed by | Peter Morgan & Richard Loncraine | |
| Screenwriting by | Peter Morgan | |
| Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
| Director of Photography: | Barry Ackroyd |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The Special Relationship marks a worthy addition to Morgan's ever-expanding body of work as a modern historian of the big screen.
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Courier Mail (Australia)
Rating: 3/5 --
The third act in the chronicles of Tony Blair features Michael Sheen and scribe Peter Morgan in fine form, but a shaky turn by Dennis Quaid mars The Special Relationship from reaching its full potential.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
The relationship between Blair and Clinton never seems capable, dramatically speaking, of bearing the weight the film assigns to it.
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The Age (Australia)
It's smart and believable and very well-acted.
At the Movies
3 stars out of 5 -- Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power.
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The Special Relationship does indeed focus on a friendship between two (admittedly powerful) dudes, but this is more than a mere episode of Entourage. For one thing, stuff happens.
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Quickflix
Rating: B- --
[The] glimpse of the real Blair was far more interesting than the clichéd version we saw throughout the film.
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ABC Radio Brisbane
Description by OLDIES.com:
In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister - and began a "special relationship" with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict and personal scandal. HBO Films presents Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis and Helen McCrory in the behind-the-scenes story of two world leaders who forged a loyal, if tempestuous, friendship out of the crucible of political necessity: The Special Relationship.
Product Description:
Screenwriter Peter Morgan (FROST/NIXON, THE QUEEN) explores the complex relationship that developed between former American President Bill Clinton and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair as the two progressive statesmen strived to unite their countries toward a common goal. The growing bond between President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair is later solidified by the fact that their wives, Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair, seem to have just as much in common as their powerful husbands.
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- UPC: 883929147120
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