Enchanted April Director: Mike Newell Cast: Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Josie Lawrence, Alfred Molina
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- DVD Release Date: 05/05/2009
- Original Release: 1992
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- Sales Rank: 2,120
Features
Feature commentary by director Mike Newell and producer Ann Scott
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Disc #1 -- Enchanted April
1. Wisteria and Sunshine
2. Blatant Extravagances
3. Keys To the Castle
4. Two More Tenants
5. Getting Away
6. A Bumpy Start
7. Smoothing Feathers
8. Sharing Love
9. Catching "Cold"
10. Awkward Introductions
11. Reaching An Understanding
12. Clever and Attractive
13. A Visitor
14. Feeling Young
15. Frederick Arbuthnot
16. Wonderful Inside
17. Pairs
18. End Credits
Editorial Reviews
Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a bottomless reserve of brilliant dialogue. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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