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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 6, 2001
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christian Bale & John Malkovich | |
Performer: | Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips & Ben Stiller | |
Directed by | Steven Spielberg | |
Edited by | Michael Kahn | |
Screenwriting by | Tom Stoppard & Menno Meyjes | |
Original story by | J.G. Ballard | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Produced by | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Allen Daviau |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[EMPIRE OF THE SUN] seems to speak a language all its own....Great and small triumphs...steadily deliver[ed]...
New York Times
Christian Bale gives a most remarkable performance as Jim.
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The Spectator
Empire of the Sun is a great, overwrought movie that leaves one wordless and worn out.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
The film's grave problem is a lack of central heating: We don't have a single character to warm up to.
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Los Angeles Times
Included in the New York Times 10 Best Films of 1987
New York Times
The scenes in which the Japanese invade Shanghai and the English forlornly try to flee are handled with huge flair; but unusually for Speilberg, the performances and subtlety of his direction register equally strongly.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/4 --
Empire of the Sun wants very badly to be a great film, though as Steven Spielberg really ought to know by now, wishing doesn't make it so.
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Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
Steven Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN, based on the autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, stars Christian Bale as Jim Graham, a British schoolboy separated from his upper-class colonial parents when the Japanese sweep into Shanghai during World War II. Temporarily orphaned, Jim attaches himself to Basie (John Malkovich), a fast-talking American opportunist determined make a buck off the spoils of war. Later, when the two are interned in a prison camp, Jim's boyish fantasies are fueled by the grace and daring of the Japanese fighter pilots whom he comes to idolize despite their enemy status. Spielberg's visually spectacular wartime epic is a testimony to the human will to survive and a child's ability to find wonder even in the midst of horror. Thirteen-year-old Welsh actor Christian Bale is brillant as Jim in his feature film debut. Spielberg himself identified more with Jim, a boy who is obsessed with flying and who experiences the death of his innocence, than with E.T.'s Elliott. After a year of negotiations with the Chinese, Spielberg and his crew were allowed to film in Shanghai, which was virtually unchanged since World War II.
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- Sales Rank: 11,876
- UPC: 883929091539
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