Gideon's Daughter
by Stephen Poliakoff
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Actor: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Miranda Richardson, Robert Lindsay (II), Ronni AnconaDirector: Stephen Poliakoff
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 144 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of Gideon's Daughter
Movie Review: A mesmerizing experience . Thank you
Summary: 5 Stars
What a joy to see a compelling, totally intriguing story beautifully acted by a cast that does not appear to be acting: Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson,Emily Blunt,Robert Lindsey, Ronny Anacona, Tom Hardy & company. Bill NIghy is a treasure. Miranda Richardson, too. Never miss their movies. The screenplay and direction of Steven Poliokoff are so creatively conceived as to be mesmerizing. What a pleasure to see a writer/director who truly presents a fully developed movie. We love the metaphorical quality of the stroy, and appreciate the fact that it enhances, without getting in the way. Gideon's Daughter is a jewel that we first rented, and immediatly purchased,becasue we ant to see it again.
Summary of Gideon's Daughter
Gideon Warner is a hugely successful public relations consultant to the wealthy, to politicians, to businessmen and rising starlets. Their hair, their cloths, where they go and with who ? Gideon advises them on everything. With all his skills, he is the perfect man to package the Millennium celebrations and sell them to the rest of the world. But disillusioned with the world in which he works and increasingly concerned over the growing distance between he and his daughter, Gideon takes less and less notice of his business, just as clients seem to want him more and more. He clings to his slowly flourishing relationship with Stella ? a mother grieving for her dead son ? as his world spins further out of control. Only together can they make it stop.DVD Features:
Interviews:Commentary by Stephen Poliakoff Robert Lindsay Interview Miranda Richardson Interview Bill Nighy Interview Emily Blunt Interview Ronni Ancona Interview Tom Hardy Interview
Other:Timeshift Documentary about Stephen Poliakoff
Everyone believes that Gideon Warner (Bill Nighy, Love Actually), a hugely influential publicist, has the key to making everything happen. But Warner can't make his daughter (Emily Blunt, Empire) love him, and her thinly hidden disgust is slowly killing him. British tv-movie auteur Stephen Poliakoff doesn't just write about people; in his view you can't separate one life from the lives of others, or the events of the world in which that life is lived. Gideon's Daughter unfolds organically in a series of disconnected events, chance collisions and coincidental intentions that shape the character's fates. In the wrong hands, this could feel sloppy or forced; but Poliakoff has a gift for keeping his audience caught up in the struggles of his unpredictable (yet very believable) characters. The juxtaposition of events large and small--a man steals flowers from a memorial for Princess Diana so he can lay them on the sidewalk where a car struck his bike-riding son--reflects how a life as supposedly large as Gideon's can become enmeshed in one so supposedly small as that of a grief-stricken middle-aged salesclerk (Miranda Richardson, The Phantom of the Opera). Extras include interviews with Poliakoff and the cast, as well as a 40 minute documentary on Poliakoff, A Brief History of Now, which may help explain why this intriguing writer/director is so well-regarded in England, though he's little-known in the U.S.. --Bret Fetzer
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