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, 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
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- 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
Movie Reviews of The Nativity Story
Movie Review: The Nativity Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie Review - The Nativity Story
The Nativity Story is a moving recount of the life of Mary and Joseph and the events before and during the selection as parents to God's only Son. The movie depcits their struggles and long journey that ends in a lowly stable located in Bethlehem where the miracle birth of Jesus, Christ and Savior to the world, takes place.
Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The message of love resonates through His entire ministry. Although crucified in His early thirties for a crime he did not commit, His teachings continued through the devotion of His twelve disciples and the many people whose lives He touched. By giving His life, Jesus saved the world and provided salvation to those who seek it. Through the blood that he shed, all who believe in Him will have everlasting life. Three days after His crucifixion, Jesus arose from the dead. During this time, he spent much time consoling and encouraging his disciples to continue their mission of spreading the gospel. Many of His teachings and life stories can be found in the books of Matthew, Luke, Paul, and John, from the New Testament. The ministry of Christ is still very much alive today as Christians all over the world celebrate His life and practice his teachings.
The script focuses largely on Mary and her struggles of carrying this miracle child. How is she supposed to explain her pregnancy, when being pregnant outside of marriage is considered a disgrace? To complicate matters further, she must try to explain how she became pregnant while still a virgin.
The movie starts off a little slow, but has a strong ending. It is a very good film choice for the entire family and will be especially memorable to watch around the Christmas holiday season.
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).The 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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