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Plenty (1985)
starring: Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014138300234
Format: Anamorphic, Digital Sound, Dolby, PAL
Label: Cinema Club
Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cinema Club
Region Code: 2
Release Date: June 26, 2006
Running Time: 123 minutes
Studio: Cinema Club
Sales Rank: 10137

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Less than meets the eye
It seems a cheap shot to say that there's not much to Plenty, but Meryl Streep's rather wearingly one-note performance does tend to show up the thinness of the material. Despite his penchant for bombastic metaphor and excruciatingly on-the-nose dialogue, David Hare's adaptation of his play feels rather closer to naturalism than usual, but when the woman whose dilemma at the heart of his big theme is so resoundingly one-note you do feel as if you're just being told the same thing over and over again. Streep is the former SOE worker who, like Britain itself, was at her best and most noble during the war but struggles to come to terms with the post-war reality of stagnation, emptiness and missed opportunities in a country whose soul-crushing bureaucracy ... Read More:

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- Plenty of sighs
Plenty, is the sad and terribly unconvincing story of English woman Susan Traherne's life during and after WWII. Entirely crafted by Fred Schepisi, from a play by David Hare, Plenty portrays Susan's life, from the dangers and excitements of Resistance fighter in France to the twenty or so following years of boredom, disillusion and bourgeois existence. Determined to change the world, Susan returns to England, only to face a vacuous society, far more concerned by coping with reality than to change it. Susan is supposed to have lived such an intense and meningful life (dangers, excitements, passionate love and worth-to-die-for feelings and gestures) during her Resistance years in France, that she has become unfit to reality. All very good, at least if you ... Read More:

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- A beautiful but sour-hearted confection
Brilliantly created, finely scripted, beautifully acted by a who's who of British (and American) character actors, amazing to look at, a perfect gem of a movie... yet strangely unsatisfying. Or should that read 'dissatisfying'?

Much as I admire David Hare for his skilfull stage masterpieces, I can't help feeling that he's created here a confection consisting of a series of ornate historical set pieces, rather like a Christmas present wrapped with layers of brightly-coloured paper and ribbon, at the heart of which is a rather sour plum. Ultimately, it's a cynical and sour-hearted film, giving Meryl Streep the opportunity to act her cotton socks off and in the process go totally off the rails in some style, but strangely incoherent too.
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- Sublime English nostalgia
I first saw this film when I was about 17, I remember it but I'm not sure why I would have liked it. But 20 years later I can see its real beauty.

It's about hopes and aspirations. The intensity of youth that tails off, becoming frustration and boredom. This is one of those classic English films, depicting a class and its cruelties. The problem of living for yourself or making sacrifices for others. Meryl Streep is beautiful: poised, elegant, brittle, mad. I'd forgotten what a genius John Gielgud was - his comedy turns are so polished.

Charles Dance as the emotionally limited Englishman is very good. Tracey Ullman and Sting play bit parts very well.

I've watched it twice on DVD and seen more equisite details each time. ... Read More:

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