Eleni (Blu-ray) PG
The Echo of a Mother's Voice. Fuels a Son's Revenge.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 16, 2016
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich & Linda Hunt | |
Performer: | Oliver Cotton, Ronald Pickup, Glenne Headly, Rosalie Crutchley, Dimitra Arliss, Leon Lissek & Peter Woodthorpe | |
Directed by | Peter Yates | |
Edited by | Ray Lovejoy | |
Screenplay by | Steve Tesich | |
Composition by | Bruce Smeaton | |
Director of Photography: | Billy Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Malkovich is developing into one of the great strong quiet zones of contemporary film acting. His characters internalize their feelings.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...The film has the power to move us...
Los Angeles Times
...Nelligan, Malkovich and Linda Hunt, superior performers all, have strong grips on their characters...
Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
An extraordinary movie about a heroic Greek woman with an outstanding performance by Kate Nelligan.
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
This poignant drama is based on Nicholas Gage's angry nonfiction book about his mother's execution during the Greek Civil War. John Malkovich stars as Gage, a civil war survivor who worked in Greece as a journalist for the New York Times, hoping to uncover the truth about Eleni's (Kate Nelligan) death and exact revenge against those responsible. As Gage returns to his homeland and the various scenes of heinous war crimes, he is deeply moved by the memories of his mother's devotion and ultimate sacrifice. Gage's boyhood experience of the war and his mother's eventual execution are conveyed in a series of haunting flashbacks. The tragedy took place in the months following World War II, when communist soldiers flooded Eleni's small village. Ultimately, Gage does confront the man responsible for condemning Eleni, but the experience proves different from his expectations. Kate Nelligan gives a tour-de-fource performance in director Peter Yates's compelling tale of a country and family ripped apart by war.