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	List Price: $9.94 Our Price: $17.95 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Michael Denison, Andrew Seear, Tim McMullan Directed By: Richard Attenborough
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303115450 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 6303115454 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 1995-01-31 Running Time: 133 Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Editorial Reviews: This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by WilliamNicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham. Best known for writing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is living comfortably as a respected Oxford don, his academic lifestyle a kind of shell protecting him from the emotional risk of love. Joy Gresham (Debra Winger) arrives at Oxford as an avid admirer of Lewis's writing, and the safety of his collegiate routine is quickly disrupted when Lewis realizes that he's fallen deeply and unexpectedly in love. Their courtship is uniquely engaging; he's shy and uncertain, she's outspoken and bold. But when Joy is diagnosed with cancer, Lewis's Christian faith is put to the test--he cannot fathom why their happiness together would be so drastically challenged. Together, they find a way to accept and honor the time they have shared together, and under the sensitive direction of Richard Attenborough, Shadowlands arrives at a conclusion that is both heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Hopkins and Winger are equally superb in this absorbing story of personal and spiritual transformation--a story previously filmed for British television in 1985, with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom. --Jeff Shannon
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic - then and now. Comment: I loved this movie the first time I saw it many years ago. It is just as great now. Anthony Hopkins is so attractive and sexy. This movie provides another look at the amazing depth of his acting ability. The list of friends who want to borrow my copy just gets longer as more of them hear about how great it is. (Somehow they all missed it when it came out.) Customer Rating: Summary: Not as good as the other version Comment: This is a good movie because of its subject and the fact it is relatively well done. However, it is not as good as the BBC version, "Through The Shadowlands." Although I'm a big Anthony Hopkins fan, I think Joss Ackland played a better Lewis than did Hopkins. Strangely, I was reminded of the role Hopkins played in "The Remains of the Day," in which he played an extremely inhibited individual. Lewis, however, while guarded was not so inhibited, and I think Ackland captured the right balance better than Hopkins did. A bigger difference, I thought, was in the role of Joy, where I found Claire Bloom both more believable and appealing than the Winger version. I thought Winger's NYC accent a little overdone. Also, Winger's approach was more in-your-face than Bloom's. Some have described Winger as "challenging" and Bloom as "passive" or more "traditional." I didn't see it that way. Certainly, the initiative that Joy took in starting their relationship was not passive or traditional. She came across to me as a very intelligent, highly literate and refined woman, and I thought she would have appealed to Lewis for that reason. When she has to deal with Lewis's stodgy Oxford friends, she is able to engage in dry repartee as an equal. In the Winger version, Joy substitutes insult for clever repartee. The BBC version reaches an emotional crescendo that this version struggles to attain but does not (IMO). In the BBC version Lewis spontaneously affirms his love of Joy and embrace of her as his wife, whereas Hopkins painfully struggles to do so and finally does because the script dictates it, but I found it not fully credible. The one drawback to the BBC version is that it is technically inferior, being an earlier TV production compared to the HBO movie. Customer Rating: Summary: SHADOWLANDS/ ANTHONY HOPKINS Comment: Excellent movie/ well-done/ award winning acting. I would recommend it to anyone interested in C.S. Lewis and his body of work. It's a real insight into the man...and the author. Jeff Phillips Customer Rating: Summary: A movie about dying and living Comment: I'm a long time fan of C. S. Lewis. He was an Ivory tower scholar and philosopher who wrote classic the Narnia series of children books. Before seeing this movie I knew pretty much nothing about his personal life. Songs or love and songs of death together have a limited market. The C. S. Lewis works are a modern bridge of Christian faith that have made him an important writer like Ray Bradbury. His sci fi is pretty bad as he just has very little understanding of real science? In this we see the life of an Oxford top literary scholar in a way that makes him seem not so remote. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Product Comment: The product was pretty close to the description given. The VHS itself was in awesome shape. The case was said to be in perfect condition - it was slightly worn however - which was kind of a disappointment. But overall I was pleased and happy with my purchase.