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Doesnt live up to the book

Advantages: Good acting.
Disadvantages: Weak ending

Kate has been sick for most of her life. Her parents decided the best way to ensure her health was to have Anna. Anna was an IVF baby created as a gentic match to donate blood and bone marrow to Kate. When Kate needs a kidney transplant her parents look to Anna. But Anna decides that she is going to seek medical emancipation from her parents. I was looking forward to the film after reading the book by Jodi Picoult. It is as heartbreakingly sad as ...
...playing the mother who will do anything for her child, this role was much more challenging than we are used to seeing from her and she pulls it off well. The problems with the film were not with the acting or the emotion evoked but rather with the changed made in conversion from book to film. After reading the book the film felt like a let down, especially the sidelining of Campbell to focus on other less interesting subplots.The ending had been ...

loobylou88 10.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of My Sister's Keeper (DVD)

Macbeth DVD-very good for GCSE which it is mainly used for

Advantages: Understanding and visualising the play and language.
Disadvantages: the film is just over 2 hours and the picture quality is not great.

I really enjoyed this, I am not one to pick up a Shakespear play for interest, the reason I needed to watch the DVD was because I was doing an evening GCSE course, I feel you get more into it and get to know the charactors alot more and understand the story line because you get to actually visualise the play. I would recommend it for any level of education or for personnal use because I would watch it again. The picture quality is not great but ...
...scene! The only disavantage is that the film is over two hours long so you do have to make the time to watch it and I do recommend writing note as you go along and to also use the film as a visualisation of the play but refer to the book. ...

prettydaisy01 20.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Macbeth (DVD)

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble...hehe! (Macbeth 1978)

Advantages: action-packed, exciting, tense, gripping, fabulous acting, top quality
Disadvantages: none

Macbeth is my favourite of all the Shakespeare plays (that I have seen/read so far anyway!), and this is by far my absolute favourite production. Macbeth is a Scottish soldier, played by Sir Ian McKellen, and his wife Lady Macbeth by Dame Judy Dench. With names like these at the top of the cast list you instantly know this just has to be quality! Both characters are ambitious creatures, so when Macbeth receives a prophesy from three witches (hubble, ...
...Macbeth and his wife believe the prophesy is taking too long to reach fruition! So they decide to help things along a little, with a touch of murder here, and a hint of madness there, there are battles, ghostly apparitions, and the whole thing is tense and gripping, helped along greatly by the sheer quality of the performances of the whole cast. The costumes are pretty good, this is a 1970's production (1978 to be precise), and there are a few small ...

razielle 20.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Macbeth (DVD)

"Love is a Weakness"

Advantages: It's British, Bob Hoskins
Disadvantages: The rest of the cast, tedious plot

...film, so seeing advertisements for Mona Lisa free with the Times this weekend, I made sure I got hold of a copy. Mona Lisa is a film I remember coming out in the 80s when I was in my teens, although I never actually saw it at the time. I wasn't expecting a brilliant film; although the names of the actors - Bob Hoskins, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Caine - led me to believe that it would be pretty good. To be honest, I was disappointed. This is a fairly ...
...skills - he was nominated for an Oscar for this role. The story George is an 'odd job man' living in London who has a number of dodgy contacts. One day he meets a high class prostitute called Simone and ends up becoming her chauffeur. Their relationship is initially fiery, but they soon come to appreciate each other. George is intrigued by Simone's lifestyle; all the more so because an acquaintance of his is also interested in exactly what it is ...

sunmeilan 09.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mona Lisa (DVD)

Emotional But Heart Warming

Advantages: good acting
Disadvantages: emotional

...the release of the film My Sister's Keeper and decided that I would give this a watch, all I knew was that it was based on a novel but really had no idea what the exact plot was about. However, had I known the plot I might have rethought this choice for the particular day I watched it as it did end up being rather intense and about nothing I had assumed it would be about. This film is based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name which I had at ...
...by fertilization of a medical kind rather than the old fashioned way to be a genetic match for her older sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva). Kate is suffering from leukemia and this is badly affecting her the older she gets, from a young age Anna has been helping her sister pull through by giving her what she needs to be ok. However, Anna gets to the stage when she is told she will have to donate a kidney and decides to take a stand as she is sick of ...

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Review of My Sister's Keeper