The Nativity Story
by Catherine Hardwicke
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Actor: Ciar?n Hinds, Hiam Abbass, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Shaun ToubDirector: Catherine Hardwicke
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Nativity Story
Movie Review: Could've been better.
Summary: 3 Stars
The Nativity Story starring Keisha Castle-Hughes is the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. This film is directed by Catherine Hardwicke who also directed Thirteen, what a drastic change from that arena. I like this film but I just feel the whole uplifting story of Mary and Joseph and the judgments that they faced didn't go into greater detail. The acting is great but I was hoping for a more well-rounded movie, decide for yourself.
Summary of The Nativity Story
It was the cruelest of times. Under Herod's torturous reign families struggled to survive and yet in the midst of utter turmoil a young woman's faith is put to the test. Join Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes) and Joseph (Oscar Isaac) on an incredible journey of hope and discovery. Epic in its scope yet intimate in it's portrayal of this historical family this "wonderful film" (Bill Zwecker Chicago Sun Times) is "a family feature that will be cherished for years to come!" (Greg Russell WMYD-TV Detroit).Running Time: 161 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 101 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?794043106682 Manufacturer No:?N10668The Nativity Story is a remarkable, if frustratingly restrained, act of imagining the tale of Christ's birth as a flesh-and-blood drama actually set in Israel two millenia ago. Written by Mike Rich (Finding Forrester) and directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), the film makes very strong impressions in a scene-by-scene way. Beginning with the slaughter (bloodlessly portrayed; this is a PG movie) of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod (a dark and knowing Ciar?n Hinds), the film then jumps back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah (Stanley Townsend) that his wife, Elizabeth (Shohreh Aghdashloo), will bear a child. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes), struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph (Oscar Isaac). Soon comes word to Mary, via an angel, that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Thus begins a detailed account of Joseph and Mary's hard travel to Bethlehem, while three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Hardwicke and Rich anchor all this in period detail, though what proves most moving are relationship nuances, especially the friendship and trust that emerge between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy. While The Nativity Story should appeal to almost anyone as a straightforward narrative, it is far from a secular version of the familiar Biblical tale, and thus feels a bit stifled. It might have been nice if the film could have breathed a little more with imagination, but The Nativity Story makes up for it by ingeniously weaving hints of things to come, later in Christ's life, into the action. --Tom Keogh
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