Glorious 39 R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Mnrk One Music
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, David Tennant, Juno Temple, Christopher Lee & David Tennant | |
Directed by | Stephen Poliakoff | |
Screenwriting by | Stephen Poliakoff | |
Composition by | Adrian Johnston | |
Director of Photography: | Danny Cohen |
Entertainment Reviews:
An enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: C --
Despite a few convincing turns, the feature is disappointingly winded, eventually going off on a few needless tangents that derail the whole production.
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BrianOrndorf.com
Rating: 3/5 --
But, when taken as a whole, [Stephen] Poliakoff's film is a watchable and involving thriller which effectively uses its setting to tell a menacing story of a family - and a country - being torn apart by an all-encompassing war.
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Roll Credits
Rating: 2/5 --
Not glorious. Not good. Just plain old-fashioned duff.
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Daily Mirror (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A ripping, old-school conspiracy thriller.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/5 --
A bizarrely tasteless pet-euthanasia subplot -- clumsy parallels with the Holocaust abound -- is merely the wackiest turn the wildly unconvincing script takes: it's well below Poliakoff's more intelligent TV work.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
Stephen Poliakoff performs his usual routine of conjuring an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue for the first hour and failing to fulfil it in the second.
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Financial Times
Product Description:
A woman makes a surprising discovery with dangerous consequences in this period suspense thriller, set in 1939. Anne Keyes (Romola Garai) is an attractive young woman who is enjoying modest success as a film actress; she's also the adopted daughter of Alexander Keyes (Bill Nighy), a career politician and member of Parliament. Anne still lives in the family home with her father, mother Maud (Jenny Agutter), budding diplomat brother Ralph (Eddie Redmayne) and socialite sister Celia (Juno Temple). One night, Hector (David Tennant), one of Alexander's friends, stops by for dinner and during a heated conversation makes no secret of his disapproval of prime minister Neville Chamberlain and his efforts to appease Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime. Another dinner guest, Balcombe (Jeremy Northam) doesn't care for what Hector has to say, and later that evening, Hector is found dead, an apparent suicide. Anne, however, begins to suspect foul play when she finds a set of phonograph records that document conversations of men discussing state intelligence secrets. When Anne ties to share this discovery with others, they're soon found dead, and she's no longer certain what she should do with these deadly secrets. GLORIOUS 39 was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.