Tempest
by Paul Mazursky
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Actor: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Molly Ringwald, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio GassmanDirector: Paul Mazursky
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Donald M. McAlpine
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Tempest
Movie Review: Four Stars
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of my favorite films. I like it because it's really different from what you might expect. There are aspects of it that leave you scratching your head. It's funny, entertaining, surprising and even shocking. It's a fairly unusual title, so if you're interested in something a little "off the beaten track" as it were, this might be it. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because the story moves a little too slowly for my taste. If you're an action junky - forget it. If you're in it for a deep story - forget it. After watching this, you'll recall it like it was a dream you had more than a movie you saw.
Summary of Tempest
This modernistic fantasy-drama, is about a New York architect Phillip (John Cassavetes), who is fedup with city living. He takes his wife Antonia (Gena Rowlands), an actress, and their daughter, Miranda (Molly Ringwald in her debut), to Greece to a barren island. There he meets a singer and a hermit and others who land on the island when the boat is shipwrecked.A burnt-out architect (the peerlessly unhinged John Cassavetes) tries to get away from it all on a seemingly idyllic Greek isle in this extremely loose-limbed adaptation of Shakespeare's play. This pleasantly rambling, exquisitely lit portrayal of the middle-aged-crazies is rather broad even by writer-director Paul Mazursky's estimable standards, but Cassavetes's wholly unpredictable performance keeps the considerable preciousness from ever getting too thick. (He's aided by a uniformly wonderful cast, including Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Molly Ringwald, and especially Raul Julia as a wacked-out lech of a goatherd.) Not recommended for people trying to get out of reading the source material (for that, try the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet), but patient viewers will find plenty of rewards amid the schmaltz. --Andrew Wright
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