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Enchanted April [1991] | ![Enchanted April [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WNB7R7XJL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Neville Phillips, Jim Broadbent
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 98
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 89
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5024165293881
ASIN: B00004D2W0
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 1993
Release Date: February 3, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: tape, insert and cover all in very good condition
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the cost with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long naps--they all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit. Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral) directs with seeming effortlessness, and it is impossible not to be swayed by the promise of restoration for these burdened characters--or for anyone alive. Wonderful performances all around, including a particularly sensitive one by Alfred Molina and a very funny one by Jim Broadbent. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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Therapy in a box. October 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
From grey rainy England, a mad impulse sends four very different women to the sparkling light and sensual flower filled bliss of the sunny Italian coast, where magic begins to work on their souls. Watching this, it will seep into yours as well. You will long for such an experience. This production is therapy for dark nights and a lack of joy, and love.
It contains, for me, one of the most beautiful visual moments I have ever seen on television. The rainstorm has passed, it is morning, and an unexpected light glimmers through the shutters of the quiet bedroom. They are opened and ... heaven!
I join with those who are waiting and hoping for a DVD to be produced. We should start bombarding the BBC with emails!
A Gentle Masterpiece September 4, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ignore the Time Out and Film Buff reviews, which consign this film to the dustbin of the bland. In fact this film is a consumate allegory on Spiritual Enlightenment.
Appearing almost innocent of its own intentions, the film follows the naive ambitions of a misunderstood and unhappily married young woman to take a villa in Italy with "like minded" companions. This is a singles holiday wound back one hundred years.
But what unfolds is a subtle and exquisitely elegant story of diversely thinking people resolved to their mutual antipathies and psychological flaws.
A simple tale which is all the more intelligent for its restrained and understated poise.
This film is (will be) one of the jewels of 20th Century Cinema. The direction is taut yet breathes, the location is stunning. The script is clever, the cast outstanding.
This is a must have film, and is a welcome antidote to so many other films which gain their kudos through sensation, violence, and essentially empty attempts to impress.
Enchanted April should be compulsory viewing for all those seeking "conflict resolution". It is a better healer than a thousand therapy sessions.
Stunning and peaceful at the same time July 12, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As all the other reviewers have said, breath-taking...peaceful. A holiday in itself, from everyday, for any viewer.
Please, please, please bring it out on DVD.
Much-watched VHS copies are fading away.
Relaxation therapy in a box.
Delightful June 6, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This adaptation is truly a delight to watch whilst at the same time quite uplifting. Anyone watching who feels that the rain in winter gets to them at times can postively feel the warmth of the italian sun radiating from Josie Lawrence's window the first morning she arrives in Italy.
A true classic that is watchable again and again.
Bring it out on DVD! May 17, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A delightful, feel-good film. One to watch any rainy day, it has humour, wonderful acting and a beautiful setting. Should be avaiable on prescription.
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