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The Lion in Winter [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
directed by: Anthony Harvey

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792849209
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792849205
Label: MGM
Manufacturer: MGM
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 134 minutes
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1968
Sales Rank: 60608
MPN: MGMD1001587D

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In this 12th-century version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Henry II of England (Peter O'Toole) and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn), meet on Christmas Eve to discuss the future of the throne. These two are having slight marital problems, as she is kept in captivity most of the year for raising a rebellion against him, and he flaunts his young mistress. Then there are the problems raised by their three treacherous and traitorous sons. James Goldman won an Oscar for the brilliant screenplay, based on his Broadway play. It is a tad wordy, as the action is kept to a minimum, but those words are sharp as daggers. The humour is wicked and black and delivered with very dry, dead-on precision. Sparks fly and the screen sizzles whenever Hepburn and O'Toole tango, which is often. Both were nominated for Academy Awards for their vigorous performances. (She won, he didn't.) There is also an infamous homoerotic exchange between Philip of France (Timothy Dalton) and Richard the Lionhearted (Anthony Hopkins). Both actors were making their feature film debuts. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A cocksure, swaggering piece of cinetheatre aimed at impressing Americans
What an over rated film this is. Not easy to get into, its verbosity is either a turn on or a turn off, depending on your taste, and once into its stride, it does not open out as I for one was hoping it would. Theatrical, with that high camp style that British cinema developed in the 60s to make full use of actors like O'Toole, Burton, Harvey, Williamson, Harris, to name a few of that physical brand of stage trained screen actor, it tends to screech its own greatness at you, telling you that with this great cast and with this stylish dialogue, what we have here is a great film of a fashionable era in history and a rather cool dynasty. That sort of thing...well it was made in the late 60s, and now seems very much a victim to the pervasive attitudes ... Read More:

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- A right Royal Christmas
If a family meets for Christmas very often it ends in disaster as all the family troubles not having bespoken about for the rest of the year and slowly poising everybody's mind erupt.

Well, why should it be different in the Royal Family? But here it is worse than usual: the first Plantagenet King's family was known for its temperaments. Henry II and his consort Eleanor of Aquitaine and their sons Young King Henry, Geoffrey of Brittany, Richard the Lion heart and John Lackland are stuff for legends and endless books. On top the cousin of France poisons the atmosphere further. The struggle for power and crowns, greet, jealousy, hate and sexual lust are a powerful mixture which creates a most explosive atmosphere. If the main characters ... Read More:

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- Well, What Family Doesn't Have Its Ups and Downs?
"Katharine Hepburn, from her first scene when she is briefly taken out of her 10-year imprisonment, shows a wonderful relish for even the most unimpressive sarcastic line. "Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs," she says, when sodomy, patricide, treason and incest are running their daily course. There is something about an actress with this degree of presence and a wholly distinct, pleasant and idiosyncratic voice that gets her through even misplaced weepy or extravagant scenes." Renata Adler

How many times can you watch a masterpiece and not get tired of it? Apparently as many as you want. Thus 'The Lion In Winter' is the masterpiece for me. The action is contained within one day,Christmas Eve. Henry II, Peter O'Toole is ... Read More:

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- The ultimate family Christmas movie
No movie sums up Christmas or brings back so many memories of Christmases Past than The Lion in Winter. It's 1183 and Henry II's let his wife out of prison to decide the succession at Christmas court in Chinon: he favors John, she favors Richard and nobody cares for Geoffrey. Cue daggers, plots and reopened wounds as everyone tries to kill everyone else and nobody gets what they wanted for Christmas. Part costume drama, part Who's Afraid of Eleanor of Aquitaine? as these jungle creatures scratch and claw at each other's weak spots and almost certainly a lot closer to history as it was lived than as it is written thanks to a truly great screenplay by James Goldman (who stumbled across the plot while researching a play about Robin Hood that would later ... Read More:

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- A play rather than a film
I did not really like this film. Too much emphasis on the relationships between the characters and not much actually going on. The dialogue is great though, very witty, but it would have been more appropriate staged as a play. There are some good moments but, on the whole, I found it did not give me the impression of being set in the middle ages or to give an accurate reflection of the historical events of the time.
I was a bit disappointed or perhaps not in the mood for that kind of film when I watched it.

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