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Enchanted April (1991)
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  • Closed-captioned
  • Color
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    Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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    Description: This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long naps--they all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit. Mike Newell (Into the West) directs with seeming effortlessness, and it is impossible not to be swayed by the promise of restoration for these burdened characters--or for anyone alive. Wonderful performances all around, including a particularly sensitive one by Alfred Molina and a very funny one by Jim Broadbent. --Tom Keogh
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    A Surprise Gem


    This is one of those movies that you may never have heard of before, know the actresses from somewhere, decide to give it a try and end up loving it.

    The movie starts in a trolley, filled with sneezing and coughing passengers, on a winter's day in 1920's London. One of the female passengers spots an ad from someone else's newspaper for an Italian castle that is available for rent for four weeks.

    The woman becomes obsessed about renting the villa. As she gathers three other women to join her, we learn that she is shy and kept down by an overbearing husband. The other women, who have never met before and are of various ages, are also stuck and unhappy. Together, they rent the villa, where they try to figure out their lives.

    "Enchanted April" avoids becoming a sappy, cliched movie by capturing so well the women's frustrations in London. But although they are in depressing situations, the witty British dialogue keeps the pace from getting too slow or the viewer from getting depressed, though some of their situations are likely to hit a chord.

    Then the switch to beautiful Italian scenery, where the women begin to feel better about themselves and sweep you along with them. A lush soundtrack also adds to the pleasure.

    So, kick off your shoes on a winter's day and travel to Italy with your British friends.







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    Enchanted, Enchanting Vacation 10stars

    This film is a beautiful and extremely faithful rendering of a lovely book.
    It begins with a cast that is talented and dead perfect. Josie Lawrence as the somewhat loopy romantic, Miranda Richardson as the "disappointed Madonna," Joan Plowright as the stuffy, controlling dowager, and Polly __ as the lovely Lady Caroline, searching, even though she doesn't know it.
    The story takes you from the humdrum, drizzly life of the city to the luxurious splendor of an Italian villa on the sea. Reading the book is like taking a vacation, and so is the film. But it is not only the location which refreshes, it is the gradual infusion that Josie Lawrence spreads, of hope, and the feeling that no good thing is impossible if people would just believe in it.
    Personally, at one twilight moment when "In the glow of twilight" is playing on a gramaphone, I always cry, because it is a beautiful moment of reconciliation, but also because my grandfather used to whistle and hum that song. Now that I have heard the words, I realize he must have been singing it for/to my grandmother.
    The production values are top notch in every respect, from the crowded "art parties" where Lady Caroline is cloistered, to the suffocating Victorian darkness of the home of Miranda Richardson's character and Joan Plowright's.
    The men are equally stupendous. You may recognize the star of PBS's Foyle's War, as the suprise love interest that sweeps us away with his mistakes and his nearsightedness. Alfred Molina blossoms from gruff to sexy as Lottie's stiff husband. This ultimately is about regular everyday love... not just between mates, but between "mates" - friends. It lifts us to a higher place where love makes even magic possible.
    This is one of my top 5 favorite films.

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    A Cleansing Rain

    I love this movie. This is definately a chick flick and not for everyone. It is about people, relationships, and growth. It is about renewal and rebirth. When I watch this movie, I always finish with a content sigh and a general feeling of well-being. I leave feeling like a rain shower has come though and washed the day away.

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