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The Chosen (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 28, 2008
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Agostina Belli, Kirk Douglas & Simon Ward | |
| Performer: | Anthony Quayle, Virginia McKenna, Spiros Focas & Alexander Knox | |
| Directed by | Alberto De Martino |
Entertainment Reviews:
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79%
Rating: 2/4 --
It shouldered its way into the popular consciousness, perhaps with a few concessions and a straining dramatic license, but nonetheless it remains a thoughtful, provocative engagement of legitimate issues relating to Judaism, the ancient, ever evolving rel
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Bangitout.com
Jeremy Paul Kagan's The Chosen is singularly brilliant, an impressive achievement that puts it in the select company of the best films of the year.
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Boston Globe
This little-seen movie deserves a wider audience.
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Film4
Rating: B- --
An engaging family drama religious film that explores the ideological differences between two teenage Jewish friends.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A dedicated team of faithful adapters created a wonderfully rich movie version of the book in 1981, and the emotion and intellectual depths of the story resonate through the decades.
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Denver Post
A worthy but irretrievably dull homily.
Time Out
Based on Chaim Potok's best-selling novel, this film is filled with colorful details of Hassidic lifestyle and has strong performances by Rod Steiger and Maximilian Schell.
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
Kirk Douglas stars in this hallucinogenic, dread-leaden 1977 biblical horror film as Robert Caine, an executive who scoffs at the warnings against building a nuclear power plant in a network of sacred caverns in the Middle East believed to portend the end of days. But when people involved with the power plant undertaking begin to die in gruesome ways, Caine's encounter with an unnerving, unparalleled terror is just beginning.
Description by Lions Gate Home Entertainment:
Detailed Synopsis:
When Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) sets out to build a massive nuclear plant in the Middle East, he discovers a cavern rumored to foretell the end of the world. Caine shrugs off the dire inscriptions on the cave walls...until people who oppose the plant begin dying in strange and horrifying ways. Can Caine complete his project and prove the curse to be false - or will he fall victim to the same terrible fate'
When Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) sets out to build a massive nuclear plant in the Middle East, he discovers a cavern rumored to foretell the end of the world. Caine shrugs off the dire inscriptions on the cave walls...until people who oppose the plant begin dying in strange and horrifying ways. Can Caine complete his project and prove the curse to be false - or will he fall victim to the same terrible fate'
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