North & South
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Actor: Brendan Coyle, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Sin?ad Cusack, Tim Pigott-SmithBrand: Warner Brothers
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Movie Reviews of North & South
Movie Review: best ending of a movie PERIOD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Like everyone else, I can't say enough about how fantastic this movie is! My daughter and I believe that this is THE BEST and most romantic movie, with the best ending...period! We are great Jane Austen fans with P & P, of course, right up at the top of our list and we also LOVE the new (and old) version of Persuasion. But I think this one tops them all! Once we began watching, we could not stop! The very second the credits from one episode began to roll, we were..."hurry up, get the next episode going!" We watched it three times in one weekend!! Then we decided to get it out of the house because it was becoming a problem!:) So we loaned it to a friend and now can't wait till she returns it. Richard Armitage is "fiercely handsome!" The other actors are perfect! The ending is exquisite and yet, it is a movie that you do not want to end!! I bought the book on Amazon and have been anxiously checking the mail. You can bet I'll be pouring over the dialogue. WOW! GOOD CLEAN FUN!!
Summary of North & South
DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Commentary on Episodes 1 and 4 by producer Kate Bartlett, director Brian Percival and writer Sandy Welch
Biographies:Cast bios
Deleted Scenes
Interviews:Specially recorded interview with Richard Armitage
Production Notes
North & South is a splendid, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely, and somewhat star-crossed, love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a hardscrabble, northern city. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale, forthright and strong-willed daughter of a former vicar (Tim Pigott-Smith) who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving, largely illiterate Milton, a factory town where John Thornton (Richard Armitage) and his mother (Sinead Cusack), survivors of poverty, rule their cotton mill with an iron hand. Thornton befriends Margaret's father but incurs her wrath for his severity with his workers. What she doesn't notice is Thornton's core sense of responsibility for his employees' welfare. On the other hand, he misinterprets some of Margaret's own actions and intentions. Equally stubborn, the two drag out their obvious attraction over many painful months and events.
North & South's two leads are both very good, though Armitage's brooding, penetrating performance may very well be considered a classic one day. There are other wonders in the cast: Cusack and Pigott-Smith are superb, and Brendan Coyle is memorable as a firebrand union organizer who ultimately becomes an ally to a softening Thornton. The miniseries script by Sandy Welch is a persuasive mix of historical context and character study. Brian Percival's direction is full of moments that linger in the imagination, such as the winter-dream look of a busy cotton mill, with thousands of snowy fibers floating in the air. --Tom Keogh
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