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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 11, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeremy Northam, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Ehle & Aaron Eckhart | |
Performer: | Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens & Lena Headey | |
Directed by | Neil LaBute & Barry Levinson | |
Screenwriting by | Laura Jones, Neil LaBute & David Henry Hwang | |
Produced by | Paula Weinstein, David Barron & Len Amato |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters, this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by Hollywood.
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BBC.com
Rating: 4/5 --
A film like this rides on the quality of the acting, and the Brits -- Northam and Ehle -- invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A sumptuous, century-spanning romantic epic ... in other words, the last thing you'd expect from Neil LaBute
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The Film Yap
...Ehle, an actress of dazzling grace, and Northam, an actor born of Byronic romance, bring real fire to their roles...
Rolling Stone
For a movie that purports to be about the passions of love and language, Possession is remarkably prim.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 3/4 --
... LaBute shows he doesn't have to be mean-spirited to be an effective filmmaker.
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Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart lead the cast, but their performances as modern characters rank second to Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.
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Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Product Description:
Set in both contemporary and Victorian England, POSSESSION, directed by Neil LaBute, is based on the novel by A.S. Byatt. The tale begins with Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart), a laid-back American studying the renowned Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) on a fellowship. When Roland discovers what may be a love letter from Ash, a supposedly devoted husband, to the reclusive poet Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), he recognizes that he's on to a big literary discovery. Enlisting the help of skeptical British academic Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), Roland embarks on journey to discover more about the link between the two revered poets. As Roland and Maud track Ash and LaMotte's elusive romance across the British countryside, the two scholars begin a relationship of their own.
Although this film presents a kinder, gentler LaBute--who is known for emotionally caustic movies such as IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS--POSSESSION still focuses on the relationships between men and women with skillful attention. Paltrow reprises her convincing British accent from films such as SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and SLIDING DOORS, while Northam and Ehle lend gravity to their Victorian characters. However, it's Eckhart, a longtime LaBute collaborator, who proves to be the film's heart and soul; his relaxed yet complex personality grounds both the movie and its two intertwined stories. As the two tales progress, the relationships between the characters wax and wane, leading to an ending with a surprising twist.
Although this film presents a kinder, gentler LaBute--who is known for emotionally caustic movies such as IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS--POSSESSION still focuses on the relationships between men and women with skillful attention. Paltrow reprises her convincing British accent from films such as SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and SLIDING DOORS, while Northam and Ehle lend gravity to their Victorian characters. However, it's Eckhart, a longtime LaBute collaborator, who proves to be the film's heart and soul; his relaxed yet complex personality grounds both the movie and its two intertwined stories. As the two tales progress, the relationships between the characters wax and wane, leading to an ending with a surprising twist.
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