Heidi
by Paul Marcus
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Actor: Diana Rigg, Emma Bolger, Geraldine Chaplin, Max von Sydow, Pauline McLynnDirector: Paul Marcus
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Heidi
Movie Review: Grandfather, I'm home and will never leave again.
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was very satisfying. It was lovely to see Heidi on some mountains, unlike in the Shirley Temple version. Emma Bolger did a great job as Heidi. The film largely left out the harshness towards illiterate Peter that was in the book and highlighted the misery for the Grandfather of being a social outcast. Geraldine Chaplin was a Frau Rottenmeier that you could care about rather than just laugh at. I would say that this DVD is actually an improvement on the original book. However the wildflowers that garlanded the little Golden Book will always remain in my mind as well as Heidi saying, "Grandfather I am home and will never leave again." Heidi is one of several books in which an innocent child brings hope to a dried up old adult. Others include Pollyanna, The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy (which is worth re-reading).
Summary of Heidi
Set in the Swiss Alps 100 years ago, Heidi is the story of a young orphan girl who is sent to stay with her grandfather in the High Alps. A tale of the indomitable spirit of children amid the hardships of an adult world, Heidi has been a favourite childhood fiction for generations around the world.The beloved tale of Heidi, the Swiss miss whose indomitable spirit touches all those around her, despite having been dealt a harsh hand in life, gets a spunky boost in this 2005 film adaptation. A stellar cast includes Max von Sydow as Grandfather, a roiling-with-inner-rage Geraldine Chaplin as Rottenmeier, and a benevolent Diana Rigg as Grandmamma. At the center of their world--like it or not--is Heidi, played with irrepressible optimism by the adorable Emma Bolger. As the orphaned Heidi is flung from home to home, city to city, valley to mountain, by those who profess not to want her, she accepts her fate and still manages to cast sunshine on her bleak situation. This version features breathtaking scenery--Grandfather's mountain aerie looks more like a Canadian Rockies summer spread than a place of self-imposed solitary confinement. At times the pan-European cast gives the film a feel of being the United Nations on location; Chaplin and Rigg's upper-crust British accents clash with von Sydow's clipped Swedish delivery, and Bolger's accent adorably reflects her Dublin roots. (Only the goats truly look Swiss.) But the story of Heidi has a huge heart, and this film is family entertainment in the best sense of the word. --A.T. Hurley
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