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Alice [DVD] [1991]
enlarge	Director: Woody Allen Actors: Mia Farrow, Bernadette Peters, Gwen Verdon, Julie Kavner, William Hurt Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.34 as of 24/11/2009 02:22 GMT details You Save: £13.65 (85%) New (20) Used (4) from £2.34 Seller: fastdvd2006 Sales Rank: 38039 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 101 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070007619 ASIN: B00005V8UM Theatrical Release Date: 1990 Release Date: February 11, 2002 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Critics greeted Woody Allen's 1990 opus IAlice/I with sighs of resignation. Here was yet another of Allen's bemused heroines-at-a-crossroads/crisis, falling prey to all kinds of temptation and fantasy and emerging at the other end a more complete, fulfilled or at least self-aware human being. But, though it's a minor work by his highest standards, it has weathered rather well. This is a softer exploration of territory Allen had previously covered rather more intensely and seriously in IAnother Woman/I (1988). It's often very funny and ultimately affirms one of Allen's most persistent themes: however confused you think you are, the answer probably lies somewhere inside you rather than in anybody else.p As Alice, Mia Farrow gives one of her most versatile and unmannered performances, revealing a real gift for comedy. However bitter the breakdown of her long personal relationship with Allen, there is no doubt that he took her to new professional heights in their cinematic collaborations. At the start, Alice is little more than a well-heeled housewife and mother, a lady who lunches with bitchy friends. Her dissatisfaction with her marriage (to patronising rich guy William Hurt) leads her into the path of Chinese herbalist Dr Yang, whose potions set her off on a series of experiences which include the affair she has been considering, becoming invisible (cue some great gags, especially one involving a New York cab) and a brief flirtation with opium (here Allen's trademark soundtrack of old standards includes the evocative "Limehouse Blues"). There's also some great dialogue. "He's very deep," says Farrow of her putative lover (Joe Mantegna). "Yeah, and very deep is where he wants to put it", cracks back her visiting muse (a glittering cameo from Bernadette Peters). p BOn the DVD:/B Presented in widescreen (1.85:1) format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack, IAlice/I on DVD replicates the hallmark intimacy of Allen's films in the cinema with good picture and lush sound quality (the importance of his romantic, referential musical choices should never be underestimated). There are no extras, apart from the original theatrical trailer. --IPiers Ford/I

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