Plenty Fred Schepisi Digital Life DVD

Plenty
starring: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud
directed by: Fred Schepisi

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STREEP,MERYL
EAN: 0013131146394
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 14765
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1985

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A British woman returns home from her work as a resistance fighter in France during the War. Her unconventional and strong-willed behavior soon begins to disrupt the lives of those around her.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 16-APR-2002
Media Type: DVD

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David Hare's Broadway play--about political idealism and the way some people always need to be fighting for a cause--was credibly transferred to the screen by director Fred Schepisi from Hare's screenplay. Meryl Streep (in the midst of a streak of movies that required accents) plays a British woman who fought for the French Resistance during World War II. When she returns to normal life in post-war England and marries a diplomat, she becomes something of a terror--speaking her mind when, of course, diplomacy dictates otherwise. Did she leave the best part of herself in France, where life was more meaningful and immediate? Hare's comment on Great Britain's post-war slide into Thatcherism, this film features a tough-minded (and not particularly likable) performance by Streep, who is actually quite good. It's a hard movie to embrace, but a well-made one nonetheless. --Marshall Fine

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- Less than meets the eye
It seems a cheap shot to say that there's not much to Plenty, but Meryl Streep's rather wearingly one-note performance does tend to show up the thinness of the material. Despite his penchant for bombastic metaphor and excruciatingly on-the-nose dialogue, David Hare's adaptation of his play feels rather closer to naturalism than usual, but when the woman whose dilemma at the heart of his big theme is so resoundingly one-note you do feel as if you're just being told the same thing over and over again. Streep is the former SOE worker who, like Britain itself, was at her best and most noble during the war but struggles to come to terms with the post-war reality of stagnation, emptiness and missed opportunities in a country whose soul-crushing bureaucracy grows as its empire shrinks. Which is a perfectly serviceable metaphor for post-war disillusionment even if the WW2 scenes in France have absolutely no vitality or danger ... Read More

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- Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar
A commentator here claims to have seen this film 50X and is prepared to see it 50X more.

Few films if any (unless I am studying to become an actor) would draw that much interest.

Streep does a good job playing a troubled woman who lives in the past but who is embroiled in the present that has little future for her. She does not know what she really wants and expects so much. She sure can manipulate.
There are people who say that they were born in the wrong century or period. Many of us long to be someplace else that appears to have been better....more exciting. Westerns sometime do that to me. In reality a 2 hr western could be 20 years or more of ones life....perhaps not that exciting after all.
I recently watched Streep in Holocaust. 1978 film.

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- Hare Delivers The Goods
Socialists have a serious problem of convincing themselves and others that life would be improved by an expansive government. They have trouble convincing anyone that our lives would be improved by having our property confiscated and distributed to our less fortunate brethren. Yes, it is a hard sell this socialism, which is why most socialists don't talk about the future. Socialism belongs to the past. There is, of course, no socialist utopia that can be pointed out, so here Hare, an old agitprop playwright, has found the French resistance as a metaphor for the utopia he yearns for. In America, leftists identify the 60s as a time for triumphant social involvement. The problem with this kind of nostalgia is that intellectually one fails to face certain brutal truths. The resistance, which no doubt had its moments of personal heroism, was paid for by capitalist America and by the earnings of England's soon to be bankrupted ... Read More

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- A Mackerel Sky
Meryl Streep gives a heartbreaking performance in this deeply affecting and brilliant film about a woman trapped forever in the past. Susan Traherne might appear on paper to be a selfish and unlikable woman, but Streep somehow manages to let the audience see her inner anguish and restlessness, and her quiet desperation at not being able to recapture the feeling of living life to its fullest; something she experienced during WWII as a Resistance fighter in France. It is one of the most exquisite performances ever captured on film.

Fred Schepisi crafted this Edward R. Pressman produced RKO film from a play by David Hare. There is a fine cast which lend support to Meryl Streep, including a winning turn from Tracey Ullman as Susan's wild and irreverent friend, Alice Park. Beautifully shot in several countries, the viewer feels as if they too are trapped in a moment in time. It is a poignant and wistfull moment, however, ... Read More

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