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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396180857
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 1051
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1966
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Product Description:
Adaptation of Robert Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More a Catholic statesman in England who rebelled against Henry VIII's self-proclaimed status as the head of the Church of England and paid for his religious beliefs by having his head exhibited on London Bridge.System Requirements:Run Time:120 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396180857 Manufacturer No: 18085
Amazon.com:
Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as he stuck to a relatively small budget. The results took everyone by surprise, as the talky morality play became a box-office hit and collected the top Oscars for 1966. At the play's heart is the standoff between King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw, in young lion form) and Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield, in an Oscar-winning performance). Henry wants More's official approval of divorce, but More's strict ethical and religious code will not let him waffle. More's rectitude is a source of exasperation to Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles in a cameo), who chides, 'If you could just see facts flat on without that horrible moral squint.' Zinnemann's approach is all simplicity, and indeed the somewhat prosaic staging doesn't create a great deal of cinematic excitement. But the language is worth savoring, and the ethical politics are debated with all the calm and majesty of an absorbing chess game. --Robert Horton
Amazon.com:
Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as he stuck to a relatively small budget. The results took everyone by surprise, as the talky morality play became a box-office hit and collected the top Oscars for 1966. At the play's heart is the standoff between King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw, in young lion form) and Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield, in an Oscar-winning performance). Henry wants More's official approval of divorce, but More's strict ethical and religious code will not let him waffle. More's rectitude is a source of exasperation to Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles in a cameo), who chides, 'If you could just see facts flat on without that horrible moral squint.' Zinnemann's approach is all simplicity, and indeed the somewhat prosaic staging doesn't create a great deal of cinematic excitement. But the language is worth savoring, and the ethical politics are debated with all the calm and majesty of an absorbing chess game. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  - Academy Award winner, for good reason
Paul Scofield gives a stellar performance as a man whose ethics and principles trump even his regard for his life.Mr. Scofield plays Thomas More, King Henry VIII's close friend and confidante.But when the King virtually begs Sir Thomas for his acquiescence to a divorce from Queen Katherine so that he may "legitimately" marry the coquettish Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas, an ardent Catholic, refuses.Locked in the Tower of London and ultimately deprived even of books to read, Sir Thomas refuses to relent, ... Read More
Rating: - Do not rent this movie, OWN it.
This Academy Award winning movie is a miracle.Fred Zinnemann's cinematic treatment of the play by Robert Bolt has a quality of luminous economy.The casting is amazing.Every member of the cast is just right, from Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More and Dame Wendy Hiller as Lady Alice all the way down to those cast as the Thames river boatmen, the messengers, the jailers at the Tower and the big lab who played the More's family dog.
The costuming and settings in the movie are perfect, a huge ... Read More
Rating: - SADLY, THEY DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE
I don't mind recent Oscar winners with their complicated characters and bizarre situations (see Crash, The Departed, etc.) but it's nice to see a movie like A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and remmember a time when the academy rewarded movies about deep, congruent, inteligent men. A truly great one for sure.
The movie does feel a little dated regarding hair styles (very 60s!) and customs (you can easily tell they have never been worn until right before the movie was shot) but the performances and screenplay are ... Read More
Rating: - excellent performances
A man for all seasons is an amazing tale of a turbulent period in english history: The king, Henry VIII, is in love with a girl and want to finish his marriage to the queen. For that He wants the Pope's consent and when He refuses, the king takes english church out of the Pope's jurisdiction and proclaims himself head of the church. So far so good. But He needs the support of the bishops, the people and the members of government. One of the most prominent members being Sir Thomas More. More is a humanist, lawyer, ... Read More
Rating:  - Even more thoughtprovoking in 21st Century!
King or God? Who is more important?
Law of the land? Or religious sermon? Which is more correct?
Lawmakers or clergy - who should override whom?
Come and watch this movie to find how these thoughts were resonated in 16th Century England as it still do today at a different wavelength.
Sir Thomas More had bee glorified in last century as Saint, though he was a lawyer and a statesman. This movie at least partially explains why. He remained firm to his stance that King Henry VIII ... Read More
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