Avalon
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Eve Gordon, Leo Fuchs, Lou Jacobi Brand: Sony DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1 Running Time: 126 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-03-13 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Avalon
Movie Review: Cutesy artsy movie devices in search of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
A major disappointment after RAIN MAN had convinced me that Barry Levinson was a director to take note of. I generously give it two stars; one and a half would be more accurate. This movie traces the adventures of an immigrant family of sort-of generic ethnicity. Maybe not a bad idea, but too much of it is woefully bogged-down. A derailing streetcar and a boy attacked by a swarm of bees are among the numerous disjointed episodes that essentially go nowhere. It's hardly a sign of a great movie when its most memorable episode is of a schoolboy getting himself in a lurch by asking the teacher "Can I go to the bathroom?" when she's just finished lecturing on the difference between "can" and "may". If the whole movie were that memorable, it would be considerably better, though. Sometimes a movie is said to have needed better editing, but in this case, not much of a movie would be left. Early on there's a scene where a shroud is being spread over a casket at a funeral, then the magic of movie editing turns the shroud into a tablecloth being spread by a woman for a big feast. I can just hear critics calling that brilliant movie editing and talking about a "life goes on" message or something like that. But I only found it terminally cutesy.