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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Miranda Richardson & Gabriel Byrne | |
Performer: | Emily Watson, Julie Waters, Nicholas Hoult & Celia Imrie | |
Directed by | Richard E. Grant | |
Screenwriting by | Richard E. Grant | |
Composition by | Patrick Doyle | |
Produced by | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | |
Director of Photography: | Pierre Aïm | |
Executive Production by | Jeff Abberley |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The actors give it a spark, and Grant directs his fine cast with sureness.
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Seattle Times
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts polished and sincere enough to ensure Grant's first time behind the camera won't be his last.
Total Film
Rating: 2.5/5 --
After watching his directorial debut, Wah-Wah, I'd like [Richard] Grant to stay in front of the camera.
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Cinematical
Rating: 3/4 --
I admired the movie and was happy to see it but can think of two other films about whites in Africa that do a better job of seeing their roles.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Only occasionally successful . . .
SA Movie & DVD Magazine
[A]cidly funny and very moving....A wry and involving film, WAH-WAH is clearly a labor of love for both Grant and his cast.
Los Angeles Times
The richness of the film lies in its attention to detail and its refusal to judge is protagonists, however extreme the behaviour.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Actor Richard E. Grant makes his directorial debut with this beguiling, semi-autobiographical dramatic comedy set in Swaziland at the end of British colonialism. Gabriel Byrne plays a member of the reigning British government, a cabal of hard-drinking, sexually duplicitous upper-crust types living in the thick heat of the African desert. Miranda Richardson plays Harry's wife, who runs off with another man. It's all seen through they eyes of the son who then comes home from boarding school to learn that his dad has married a feisty American (Emma Watson) and has developed a full-blown drinking problem. Meanwhile the British government is preparing to grant the country its independence, and the club mounts a production of CAMELOT to celebrate the arrival of Princess Margaret. Grant captures the anxiety-fueled perspective of a child forced to witness debauched adult behavior and the African backdrop is vividly etched (it's filmed entirely in Swaziland). As one might expect in a movie directed by a respected British actor, the cast is peerless: Byrne delivers a highly complex performance, veering from harrowing scenes of alcoholic violence to stiff-upper-lipped affectation; Watson breathes a wealth of dimension into a role that might have been a caricature of American crassness; Zachary Fox plays the pre-boarding school version of Ralph; and Nicholas Hoult plays Ralph's older incarnation.
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- Sales Rank: 40,585
- UPC: 043396166028
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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