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Penelope [DVD] [2007]
enlarge	Director: Mark Palansky Actors: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage Studio: Momentum Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy New: £3.14 as of 21/11/2009 19:34 GMT details You Save: £14.85 (83%) New (19) Used (6) from £2.40 Seller: direct_offers_uk Rating: 14 reviews Sales Rank: 1937 Format: PAL Rating: Universal, suitable for all Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 86 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060116722079 ASIN: B0013VUS70 Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Release Date: June 23, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next » Just lovely! April 20, 2008 Bettina von Cossel (Greater London, UK) 6 out of 8 found this review helpful A great film with great actors - especially lovely McAvoy as scruffy gambler Max! This is fairy tale romance as good as it gets, and the connection between the two is very believable. You'll watch this film again and again! br / br / This one GROWS on you. August 21, 2008 Mr. R. P. Quinlan 1 out of 1 found this review helpful For some time (almost 2 years) I have known about, and waited patiently for this Reese Witherspoon production; wondering if it ever would come to fruition on DVD in the U.K. On 12th August, I found it in a local Super-Market, and bought my copy there and then. br / br /I have to say that my first thoughts when I watched it for the fist time were not very complementary. But, unusually for me after such thoughts, I let the film continue, watching it to the Happy Ending that it duly deserved. As I watched that first time, the film slowly "GREW ON ME", to the point where I couldn't walk away and forget it; I just HAD TO WATCH TO THE END. br / br /It's a fable about a young (25-year-old) woman, Penelope, played by Christina Ricci (who I had never heard of until I watched this movie), bourne, under an ancient family curse, with a pig's snout for a nose: whoes potential Suiters all seem to have a great pair of legs for running away from her the moment she shows herself to them. All, that is, except one: a gambler employed by a news reporter to get a photograph of Penelope. After several visits to Penelope's home, the photograph is taken: but our gambling friend has, by then, fallen hopelessly in love with Penelope, and destroys the picture rather than have it published. br / br /Penelope pleads with the gambler to marry her, promissing to kill herself if the curse is not broken. But her pleading is rejected, as the gambler knows he does not have the power to break the curse. After this, Penelope escapes the house that has been her prison, runs off to town where she meets and becomes great friends with Annie (Reese Witherspoon); but meets up, too, with the man she knows as Max, the gambler who rejected her. Max is also on hand when Penelope becomes engaged to marry the one person who has started all the bad publicity in the news-papers about her: something Max tries to put a stop to. br / br /This film "GREW ON ME" as I watched it that first time; and has become a Nightly show for me now. I'm a succer for a good Rom-Com or Romantic Adventure: and this is Romantic Adventure AT IT ULTIMATE BEST. br / br /Forget the SNOUT Miss Ricci carries for the majority of this movie. Just enjoy HER BEAUTY, some GREAT Acting by the entire cast, and what I like to think of as "A ROLLICKING GOOD YARN". Get to see this movie (only available on DVD). YOU'LL LOVE IT! Feel-good fairytale viewing for young and old alike November 30, 2008 R. WEST-SOLEY (Birmingham, UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is feel-good viewing at its best - a charming, modern fairytale with Christina Ricci expertly leading a very strong cast as Penelope, the girl born with the face of a pig thanks to an age-old family curse. She is supported by a host of familiar faces, including Reese Witherspoon in a brief but memorable appearance as Penelope's new-found friend. James McAvoy plays Penelope's would-be suitor, and is perfectly cast as the loveable rogue. br / br /With themes of rejection and self-acceptance at its core, the film has a really wide appeal. Far-fetched but relevant, it makes for a really fun, warm hour and half of viewing. penelope dvd April 11, 2009 Mrs. S. J. Thurland (uk) about a girl that had a spell put on her and was given a pigs nose,entertaining and amusing and all is happily ever after once the spell is broken,i enjoyed it even though i bought it for my daughter. A great Fairy Tale October 7, 2009 Mrs. A. Wellstead (West Sussex UK) I bought this for my granddaughter who is 13 years old she loved it , when my other 17 year old granddaughter watched it she thought it was a great up to date fary tale. Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next »

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