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Anything For Her [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Director: Fred Cavaye Actors: Olivier Perrier, Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Remi Martin Studio: Metrodome Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £8.28 as of 24/11/2009 17:54 GMT details You Save: £11.71 (59%) New (7) from £8.28 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 4208 Format: PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), French (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), French (Published) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 92 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5055002554858 ASIN: B002FC89QI Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Release Date: October 5, 2009 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours


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Customer Reviews: Just an average guy October 27, 2009 technoguy (Rugby) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is a bit of a one track film.It goes back 3 years into Julien's past.He is a happily married teacher with a lovely boy.While he(Vincent Lindon)is passionately in love with his wife Lisa(Dianne Kruger) their home is broken into by police.She is arrested and taken away for the murder of her boss.She was at the wrong place at the wrong time and was brushed up against by the murderer.She was found washing blood out of her coat when the police arrested her and was known to have argued with her boss on the day of the murder.She is sentenced to 20 years in prison and Julien making appeals on her behalf, after 3 years has provided no more evidence, although this average mild-mannered man believes she is innocent.He is so single-minded he is not side tracked by a single mother he meets in the park.Lisa is diabetic and due to the growing distance between her and her son, becomes suicidal and refuses to take her insulin.Julien embarks on a mission so perilous it will risk the lives of everyone he loves:he will stop at nothing to daringly break her out of prison.He arranges to see an expert in prison breaking, Pasquet, to garner ideas:he says you have to be a criminal to try or you'll get burned."Escaping is easy,the hard part is staying free".You'll need lots of cash and good ID.And find the key.He gets involved with some shady, underworld characters, wanting fake IDs and passports.He is beaten up by street criminals,but eventually secures fake passports and a license.He builds up wall charts and maps,telling neither his wife or parents.This builds up the sense of surprise and tension.He has many affecting bonding scenes with his son,who he has to bring up alone.His relationship with his father is distant.He can't sit back and watch Lisa die and his son needs his mother.Due to her poor results Lisa gets transferred to a clinic by escort in 3 days.He leaves Oscar at his parents,kidnaps a drugs-pusher and gets him to take him to a drug-trafficker's house,who he kills in a shoot-out and gets his cash pile.He follows Lisa on her transfer and escapes with her from the clinic.They set out again with Oscar closely pursued by the police.This is an excellent edge -of -your-seat thriller,well acted by the Belmondo-like Lindon and the anguished Kruger with some impressive cameo parts like the inspector,the prison-break ex-cop,the brother.The cinematography catches the seamy side of north Parisian streets ,withimpressive framing.If you liked Tell No One,you'll love this.He was just an average guy...oh yeah? br / Uninspired November 16, 2009 Ian Thumwood (Winchester) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful There are plenty of instances where French thrillers are right on the button but this one is pretty poor and stretches credibility to the extreme. Notwithstanding the fact that there are few thrills and the overall plot lacks excitement, I found this film totally implausible , not particularly well acted and , most disappointingly, there looked like being a twist at the end which failed to materialise. So much of this film is unsatisfactory. It was never explained why the lead character had a gun even though he was a school teacher, why he should have decided to arrange a prison break and leave all the clues necessary for his arrest pinned to his wall and, most unforgiveable, who actually killed his wife's boss. Don't think I can ever recall seeing a thriller with so many holes. This made the grossly over-rated "Tell no-one" seem like a masterpiece by comparison. br / br / Watch something like "The beat that my heart skipped" or "Mesrine" if you want to know how a thriller should be done. Little better than an American TV movie. Subtitled!! November 16, 2009 Anon (Suffolk) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful Unless we got the wrong DVD by mistake, this was subtitled - which was not expected at all. good film - but unless you want to read subtitles do check which version you are getting. at the time of buying there was nothing on the website warning me - and i just couldn't watch an action movie in this way.

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