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Jump [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Joshua Sinclair Actors: Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Ben Silverstone, Richard Johnson, Anja Kruse Studio: LWB Media Category: DVD List Price: ~~£9.99~~ Buy New: £3.50 as of 21/11/2009 09:18 GMT details You Save: £6.49 (65%) New (10) Used (3) from £2.49 Seller: em-g Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 7976 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 103 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5022153100111 ASIN: B0019GJ4KQ Release Date: August 25, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Great Period Piece June 25, 2008 Joshua Loffredo-sinclair 1 out of 7 found this review helpful This is one of the few movies that shows that Austria was just as much a part of NAtional Socialism as Germany in the 1920's. JUMP REVIEW November 6, 2009 Mrs. V. Davies (DINAS, RHONDDA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful I REALLY ENJOYED THIS FILM. I AM A BIG FAN OF PATRICK SWAYZE, AND WAS SO br /SAD HEARING HE LOST HIS BRAVE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER. br /THANK YOU FOR THE DVD, AND WOULD RECCOMMEND IT FOR ALL AGES. br /V. DAVIES Jump May 4, 2009 yellow tulip 2 out of 3 found this review helpful A Patrick Swayze fan myself so great film, but even non fans would find this interesting and worth a watch. Patrick Swayze March 24, 2009 Mand Foley (Berkshire) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful Being a big fan of Patrick Swayze i wasn't dissapointed with this film. His passion always comes across and it was easy to be drawn into the film. Not the best film i've ever seen but i would recommend it as a film to watch. A Question of Authenticity June 17, 2009 Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK) 1 out of 4 found this review helpful I bought this DVD because it features Ben Silverstone in the main role (despite being third in the credits) of Philippe Halsman, famous New York society photographer who provided over one hundred photographs for the cover of `Life' magazine, who had earlier in his life been accused of murdering his father. I also bought this DVD because I have a more than passing interest in Austrian history. (If Ben Silverstone is third on the list, what of Martine McCutcheon who appears second? Well, throughout the whole film, she speaks about ten words.) br / br /The opening has the following disclaimer: "This is a true story. The sequence of some events has been changed for the purpose of the story-telling." Behind the opening credits we see Manhattan in black and white, accompanied by the song `Fly Me to the Moon', to represent 1950s New York. But even if there are no twin towers in view, there are plenty of post-1950s buildings to be seen: how much, therefore, can we rely on as being true in the rest of the film? (Having said that, though, there appear to have been great efforts made to provide good period authenticity.) br / br /But soon we jump to the Tyrol and the year 1928, where the young Halsman is hitchhiking on holiday with his family and already experimenting with photography. Halsman's father is portrayed as a dominating paterfamilias, who would try the most patient and forbearing sibling: his is stubborn, resentful, argumentative, and a philanderer with a heart condition. The irony is that Halsman's portrayal in this film hints that the son probably did want his father dead! br / br /I don't think I'm giving the game too much away by relating the basics of the plot: whilst father dies hiking in ambiguous circumstances, his son is eventually charged with his murder. Enter Patrick Swayze as his lawyer, who explains to Hensman's mother that the Tyrol is that part of Austria most unsympathetic to the Jews. If, as the film states, the script is based on the actual court transcripts, then Swayze's lawyer is quite inept at times. He attacks the judge for being racist on account of the bench not accepting a telegram from the famous Sigmund Freud - who was at that time out of the country - as valid evidence: even in English courts, such evidence would be ruled as inadmissible. (What Swayze's character should have done was to call a Viennese psychologist to counter the one-sided views that had already been espoused by the local doctor.) br / br /I do have some issues with this films portrayal of actual events. I freely admit to not having studied in any way the details of this infamous case, but I felt that the way that the local inhabitants were all or mostly portrayed as closet and not-so-closet Nazis verged on the caricature. During their hiking together, father and son are looked on with distaste by the locals, one of whom remarks disparagingly to his colleague, "Those Jews again", but yet there is nothing I could see in either the father's or the son's apparel or demeanour that would reveal their religious or racial allegiance. br / br /In addition, would we be seeing swastikas worn in Austria in 1928? (The Nazis polled less than 3% of the vote in the elections in neighbouring Weimar Germany in that year.) And we later see the judge in his private chambers having a conversation with prosecuting counsel to whom he says, "Haven't you noticed how the political climate has changed in this country. It is not time to be brandishing our consciences." Yet the attempted Nazi putsch of 1934 in Austria - six years after the events of this film - failed, despite Hitler being by then in charge of Germany. The cover for this DVD proclaims that this is "the true story of the first trial of a Jew by a Nazi government", but the film itself qualifies this by stating at its end that, "The trial ... is considered by many to be the first trial of a Jew by the National Socialist Movement." br / br /What, if anything, makes this film rise above the merely OK? The acting is fine, but the lack of Austrian accents by the leading players makes things somewhat disjointed and inauthentic, when the minor actors use them. And the ADR is quite blatant in places. At least the placards that greet Halsman outside the Tyrolean courthouse are in German, and I have already mentioned that there has clearly been much work done to achieve a certain level of authenticity. It was filmed in Linz, and Upper Austria, as indicated by the "thanks" at the end. br / br /There are, alas, no extras. br /

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