Gods and Monsters R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 17, 2003
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser & Lynn Redgrave | |
Performer: | Lolita Davidovich, David Dukes, Kevin J. O'Connor, Mark Kiely, Jack Plotnick, Rosalind Ayres, Jack Betts, Todd Babcock & Martin Ferrero | |
Directed by | Bill Condon | |
Edited by | Virginia Katz | |
Screenwriting by | Bill Condon | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Subject: | James Whale | |
Produced by | Paul Colichman, Gregg Fienberg & Mark R. Harris | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen M. Katz | |
Executive Production by | Clive Barker |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1998 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Bill Condon
Entertainment Reviews:
...Beautifully crafted....Fraser gives the movie its shattering emotional impact...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
While Condon may not quite have captured an accurate Whale, he and his cast have brought a memorable creation to life.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
Gods and Monsters is not a deep or powerful film, but it is a good-hearted one.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 5/5 --
It may not be history, but what a glorious imagining it is.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Not a complicated film, but warm and clever.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The film clearly belongs to McKellen, whose presence is what makes the film as affecting at it is.
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TheMovieReport.com
An engrossing, unusual, imaginatively executed bit of psychological gamesmanship ...
Variety
Product Description:
Based on Christopher Bram's novel FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN, Bill Condon's semi-fictional 1998 sleeper stars Sir Ian McKellen in a fantastic performance as director James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, SHOW BOAT). It is 1957, and Whale is living in semiseclusion in Southern California with his scrutinizing maid, Hannah (Lynn Redgrave). His health is failing, and he is able to do little but lounge around and contemplate his younger days--his many male loves, his days in WWI, and the film world that has forsaken him. When Whale first gazes upon his musclebound gardener, Clay (Brendan Fraser), however, it is the beginning of an unusual (and platonic) friendship. Seasoned with multiple flashbacks to the sets of his films and to the battlefield, GODS AND MONSTERS is a haunting and touching look at the life of a man who was at the top of the Hollywood hierarchy but soon found himself out of favor--and the offbeat friendship he formed in his final days. McKellen and Redgrave were both nominated for Oscars, and the film garnered one statue for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 131,532
- UPC: 031398833222
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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