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1.Between Two Women [2000] starring: Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll, Andrew Dunn, Bruce Alexander, Tony Barton directed by: Steven Woodcock March 27, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		Used Price: £15.00
I absolutely loved this film, it makes such a refreshing change from action movies with CGI overload, explicit sex and violence. It is a beautifully gently paced story which gives an idealistic insight into a bygone era. I loved the way the relationship between the lead characters was portrayed, the tentative looks, the unspoken words, the hope and longing being beautifully conveyed by the actresses Barbara Marten (playing Ellen) and Andrina Carroll (playing the teacher Kathy). I do however share the disappointment about the scene in the park that was partly cut, as I feel this was pivotal to the plot and showed the depth of emotion and love between the two women. This, I believe, was a mistake by the writer and director Steven Woodcock, as ... Read More:

2.The Jealous God [2005] starring: Jason Merrells, Denise Welch, Mairead Carty, Pamela Cundell, Andrew Dunn directed by: Steven Woodcock February 20, 2006
Average Rating: >>More Details		List Price: £15.99 Off The Bookshelf's Price: £3.96 You Save: £12.03 (75%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.80
If you've read the book and loved it (as I did), don't go out of your way to watch this (as I did). steven woodcock has spectacularly missed the point of the novel. All the searing emotions, the conflict and contradiction, the raw humanity....all gone. What you're left with is a lightweight, facile "drama" which is closer to a particularly poor episode of Heartbeat than it is to the novel. The jumbling of the plot doesn't work at all, the taking of dialogue from one place and putting in another fails badly and the casting is all wrong (no disrespect to Denise Welch, but if a woman of that age had fallen pregnant in the early sixties it would have been an outrage and a miracle). What's worse is that in the extras the "writer" seems to think ... Read More:

3.Between Two Women [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) starring: Andrew Dunn, Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll directed by: Steven Woodcock March 02, 2004
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If you've read the book and loved it (as I did), don't go out of your way to watch this (as I did). steven woodcock has spectacularly missed the point of the novel. All the searing emotions, the conflict and contradiction, the raw humanity....all gone. What you're left with is a lightweight, facile "drama" which is closer to a particularly poor episode of Heartbeat than it is to the novel. The jumbling of the plot doesn't work at all, the taking of dialogue from one place and putting in another fails badly and the casting is all wrong (no disrespect to Denise Welch, but if a woman of that age had fallen pregnant in the early sixties it would have been an outrage and a miracle). What's worse is that in the extras the "writer" seems to think ... Read More:

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