Agatha PG
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer Agatha Christie during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. What really happened? The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 3, 2010
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman & Timothy Dalton | |
Performer: | Helen Morse, Alan Badel, Tony Britton & Timothy West | |
Directed by | Michael Apted | |
Edited by | Jim Clark | |
Written by | Arthur Hopcraft & Kathleen Tynan | |
Composition by | Johnny Mandel | |
Produced by | Gavrick Losey & Jarvis Astaire | |
Director of Photography: | Vittorio Storaro |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If Kathleen Tynan and the makers of "Agatha" had worked in that spirit -- had given us a droll and macabre black comedy -- the movie might have worked. They do not, and so it does not.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Agatha is a visually rich movie filmed exquisitely by Vittorio Storro.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
The film has moments of absolutely breathtaking beauty that more than make up for any dramatic shortcomings. Occasionally the imagery actually becomes the drama.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4/5 --
Fascinating drama with Hoffman and Redgrave.
Kansas City Kansan
...[A] surprising and beautiful Vanessa Redgrave...and a comically inventive Dustin Hoffman...
New York Times
Rating: C+ --
Unconvincing.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...AGATHA is an engaging and stylish film mystery....AGATHA is one of the smartest-looking films of this year, and packs a surprise twist that the real Agatha Christie might have envied...
Variety
Description by OLDIES.com:
Agatha Christie is generally considered the Queen of Crime Fiction. Her novels, stories and plays bamboozle legions of murder aficionados with complex plotting and dazzling denouements. But no mystery she ever wrote surpassed the one she lived. This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. Dustin Hoffman plays a brash American journalist who tries his own hand at sleuthing when he sets out the find the missing novelist (Vanessa Redgrave), a shy, introspective woman whose marriage to a war hero (Timothy Dalton) has foundered. What really happened? The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told. But as suspensefully directed by Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorky Park), Agatha offers a spellbinding solution.
Product Description:
In December 1926 famed mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared, setting off speculation that she had either committed suicide or had been murdered. When she was found 11 days later, she claimed to have suffered amnesia, which many did not believe. AGATHA imagines what might have happened in those "lost" days. Vanessa Redgrave subtly portrays the shy Christie, while Timothy Dalton gives a creepy performance as her philandering, arrogant husband. Dustin Hoffman plays an ace American reporter determined to track down the mystery writer by any deception necessary. An effective re-creation of 1920s England, AGATHA unfolds like the best of Christie's mysteries, with Hoffman as the Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple character. Although many of the incidents in the film stretch the imagination, some of the details have been confirmed by statements from Christie's relatives and recent books published on the subject; AGATHA is based on a book of the same name by Kathleen Tynan. For director Michael Apted, who has made both documentaries (7 UP series) and mainstream films (THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH), AGATHA demonstrates his dual interests, as it succeeds in blurring the boundaries between true life and fiction.
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- Sales Rank: 30,994
- UPC: 883316236673
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