Arabian Nights with Mili Avital: DVD Cover

    Arabian Nights Director: Steven Barron Cast: Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, Alan Bates, Jason Scott Lee

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    • DVD Release Date: 08/07/2001
    • Original Release: 2000
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 13,266

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Features

    Standard full-screen; 2.0 Dolby Surround; "Making of" documentary; Cast and crew information; Production notes; Digitally mastered; Scene access; Interactive menus

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    0. Scene Index
    1. Main Titles [3:44]
    2. A Madman Rules [4:56]
    3. Marriage [5:14]
    4. Sesame Seed Biscuit [4:04]
    5. Black Coda [5:28]
    6. "Open Sesame" [4:01]
    7. Kasim Gets Killed [3:47]
    8. A Rich Funeral [2:47]
    9. "It's a Trick" [5:26]
    10. Forty Jars of Oil [5:06]
    11. Morgiana's Plan [4:23]
    12. Ali Baba's Party [2:20]
    13. The Sultan's Jester [:53]
    14. Taking a Gamble [4:04]
    15. A Final Jest [2:50]
    16. Pickpocket [1:54]
    17. "Take This Ring" [6:35]
    18. Trapped Underground [8:25]
    19. The Lamp Genie [7:23]
    20. Money [4:43]
    21. Introdutions [3:35]
    22. Unworthy of Her Love [2:35]
    23. Magic Monkey [1:46]
    24. Eliminating the Enemy [4:46]
    25. Living in Style [3:08]
    26. A Bargain [3:18]
    27. Aladdin Wins [4:14]
    28. Storytelling [5:31]
    29. A Joke [7:33]
    30. The Sultan's Court [3:24]
    31. A Rude Awakening [3:22]
    32. Repeating the Jest [5:56]
    33. The Three Brothers [1:17]
    34. The Greatest Wonder [2:26]
    35. Telescope [3:59]
    36. A Rare Fruit [1:26]
    37. Flying Carpet [4:09]
    38. United [4:03]
    39. "Stories Can Save Us" [4:02]
    40. End Credits [5:08]

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    Editorial Reviews

    In this made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale A Thousand and One Nights, a woman discovers the ability to spin a good yarn is literally a matter of life and death. Schahriar (Dougray Scott), a powerful sultan who rules Bagdad, has developed a bitterness and distrust of women ever since he discovered his first wife was unfaithful to him. He no longer trusts the fair sex and has vowed to never marry again, but circumstances force him to wed Scheherezade (Mili Avital), a beautiful girl he's known since he was a child. Schahriar decides that if he must marry Scheherezade, he will murder her after their wedding night. Scheherezade, however, is understandably unenthusiastic about this idea, and to postpone her execution, begins regaling Schahriar with a long series of fascinating stories; by keeping him intrigued with her fables of adventure and honor, she hopes his heart will soften and she will be allowed to live. Scheherezade's stories include the tales of Ali Baba (Rufus Sewell), BacBac the Hunchback (Alexei Sayle), Aladdin (Jason Scott-Lee), the Genie of the Lamp (John Leguizamo), and many more. Arabian Nights was originally shown as a two-part miniseries, with the first episode airing on ABC on April 30, 2000. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    Unremarkable and boringby Anonymous

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    July 10, 2009: A very ordinary product. Apparently a budget basement and an amateurish production. It gives the impression of a series of takes put together with careless editing. Older DVD versions of Arabian Nights are far better and entertaining.

    A Wonderfully Flowing Movieby Anonymous

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    December 31, 2003: I happened to see this movie with my classmates a few years ago and to our surprise we all really liked it. The movie simply flowed with Sherazade cleverly postponing her persecution by telling her husband stories. There are a lot of good subplots and I especially liked the end scene where we find out that she happens to be telling the story to her two boys rather than the viewers as we are led to believe. Narration is often sloppy but here is nicely done. It's a good movie.


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