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To The Ends Of The Earth
starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Neill, Jared Harris, Victoria Hamilton, Joanna Page
directed by: David Attwood

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050467848825
Format: PAL
Label: Warner Music Vision
Manufacturer: Warner Music Vision
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Music Vision
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Running Time: 270 minutes
Studio: Warner Music Vision
Sales Rank: 39099

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- Compulsively watchable
Golding was fascinated with what happens when a group of humanity is thrown on their own, isolated from other humanity and forced to recreate their own society. He studied this in Lord of the Flies, and in a great way in the sea trilogy that this film is based upon.

The story involves maturation of Edmund Talbot, an aristocrat who takes ship from England for Sydney, Australia, to take up a post sponsored by his influential Godfather. It's also the story of a group of people of disparate backgrounds who are jumbled into the cramped confines of an elderly, leaky man o' war, with all of the effluvia of 50-year-old ballast and the constant suppuration of slimy bilge water, and packed humanity crammed between the decks. Finally, it's ... Read More:

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- Cabin Fever
Didn't watch this because you thought it would be another BBC
costume drama about the minor social gaffes of upper class twits? Well, cast aside your expectations for the quite splendid opening episode of this three-parter, which starts with a good ten minutes of prodigious vomiting. It goes on to rejoice in not only the low comedy of seasickness, drunkenness, being rude about the French, and our hero repeatedly hitting his head on low beams, but also some excellent 19th century dialogue of the "Sir, you are a drunkard and a fool!" variety. I promise you'll soon be talking like this yourself.

The cast is uniformly excellent, but Benedict Cumberbatch (brilliant in "Hawking" too) is just wonderful as foolish young aristocrat Edmund ... Read More:

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