The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
by Neil Jordan, Susan Ricketts
Our Price: $31.95
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $14.53 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Adrian Dunbar, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen ReaDirector: Neil Jordan, Susan Ricketts
Writer: Neil Jordan
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen
Producer: Kate Nayberg
Producer: Nik Powell
Producer: Paul Cowan
Producer: Peter Morgan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Summary of The Crying Game (Collector's Edition)
The Crying Game offers a rare and precious movie experience. The film is an unclassifiable original that surprises, intrigues, confounds, and delights you with its freshness, humor, and honesty from beginning to end. It starts as a psychological thriller, as IRA foot soldier Fergus (the incomparable Stephen Rea) kidnaps a British soldier (Forest Whitaker) and waits for the news that will determine whether he executes his victim or sets him free. As the night wears on, a peculiar bond begins to form between the two men. Later, the movie shifts tone and morphs into something of a romantic comedy as Fergus unexpectedly becomes involved with the soldier's girlfriend Dil (Jaye Davidson) and discovers more about himself, and human nature in general, than he ever dreamed possible. Like Spielberg's E.T., The Crying Game was supposed to be director Neil Jordan's "little, personal movie," the one he just had to make, even though no studio was willing to give him money because the story was so unusual. Instead, it became a surprise popular sensation, thanks in part to Miramax's cleverly provocative campaign playing up the hush-hush nature of the movie's big secret. The performances (including Miranda Richardson as one of Fergus's IRA colleagues) are subtly shaded, and the writing and direction are tantalizingly rich and suggestive; you're always trying to figure out the characters' true motives and feelings--even when they themselves are fully aware of their own motives and feelings. The Crying Game is a wise, witty, wondrous treasure of a movie. Director Jordan's credits include Mona Lisa, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins, and The Butcher Boy. --Jim EmersonSimilar DVD Movies
PhiladelphiaSony; Release date: 2002-07-25; DVD
Best price: $3.25
Price in other shops:
Along Came a SpiderFREEMAN/POTTER/WINCOTT/BAKER/B; Release date: 2001-09-25; DVD
Best price: $2.94
Price in other shops:
Nixon - The Election Year EditionBuena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2008-08-19; DVD
Best price: $4.26
Price in other shops:
In the Name of the FatherUniversal Studios; Release date: 1998-07-08; DVD
Best price: $6.83
Price in other shops:
Brokeback Mountain (Widescreen Edition)NBC Universal; Release date: 2006-04-04; DVD
Best price: $1.89
Price in other shops:
Boys Don't CrySWANK,HILARY; Release date: 2009-10-13; Published: 2009-10-01; DVD
Best price: $6.30
Price in other shops:
The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Extra Frills Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-06-05; DVD
Best price: $9.89
Price in other shops:
The Wind That Shakes the BarleyGPI; Release date: 2007-09-04; DVD
Best price: $10.49
Price in other shops:
Michael CollinsNEESON,LIAM; Release date: 1997-04-08; DVD
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)Release date: 2008-07-22; DVD
Best price: $5.25
Price in other shops: