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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396214507
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 508
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 29, 2008
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Product Description:
Based on the best-selling novel The Other Boleyn Girl is a captivating tale of intrigue romance and betrayal starring Natalie Portman Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana. Two sisters Anne (Portman) and Mary (Johansson) are driven by their ambitious family to seduce the king of England (Bana) in order to advance their position in court. What starts as an opportunity for the girls to increase the family fortune becomes a deadly rivalry to capture the heart of a king and stay alive.System Requirements:Running Time: 115 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396214507 Manufacturer No: 21450
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A tale of two sisters competing for the same king, The Other Boleyn Girl uses historical facts as window dressing for this work of fiction that is entertaining, if not wholly believable. Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) is the doe-eyed vixen ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Her shy sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) has always been in Anne's shadow; Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary--the 'other Boleyn girl'--as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. With a pair of American actresses in the lead roles and an Aussie portraying their hunky object of desire, the English accents are all over the place in this period piece with a modern feel. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for the advancement of men,' it is Anne who ultimately throws her slight weight around to bully Henry into doing her bidding. When he begs her to give herself to him, Anne--wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque 'B' pendant on her neck--counters, 'Make me your Queen.' Is the audience really supposed to believe that Henry the VIII--the most powerful man in the land--would divorce Catherine of Aragon, separate from the Catholic church, and put England in upheaval simply because Anne refused to sleep with him until he jumped through all her hoops? 'I have torn this country apart for you,' he hisses at her before finally getting his way. Based on Philippa Gregory's bestselling novel of the same name, The Other Boleyn Girl features an attractive cast and a familiar plot with some icky twists. Kieran McGuigan's cinematography is breathtaking and is as crucial to setting the film's tone as the dialogue. Actually, it fares better: Lines such as 'Well? Did he have you?!' sound almost comical. But the sweeping shots of Henry's kingdom and the carefully framed close-ups of Portman and Johansson are breathtaking in their beauty and say what words simply cannot. --Jae-Ha Kim
Get to Know the Cast of The Other Boleyn Girl
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Natalie Portman (Anne Boleyn) | 
Scarlett Johansson (Mary Boleyn) |
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Eric Bana (Henry Tudor) | 
Jim Sturgess (George Boleyn) | 
Kristin Scott Thomas (Lady Elizabeth Boleyn) |
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Rating:  - Absolutely horrible
The only way this horrible movie could be more historically inaccurate is if they said it took place in another country with monkeys or something. The producers intend to show how women in a different era were debased for ambition. But with their historical inaccuracies they once again debase Anne Boleyn but on a much wider scale then Henry VIII could've dreamt. He was in reality a narcissist and serial adulterer who would kill or accuse a wife of anything to be rid of her. This movie claims a lot ... Read More
Rating:  - Severely flawed period drama doesn't accomplish what it sets out to do
First of, I haven't read the book. So you won't be seeing me complaining about the differences between the two.
Boleyn Girl is a pretty movie. From the actors, to the setting and the cinematography, everything is put together in a way that pleases the eye.
But aesthetics isn't quite enough, and it doesn't make up for blatant flaws like the bad accents, the over the top story that resembles a soap opera and the script that manages to be uninteresting although dealing with a subject ... Read More
Rating: - Book Translation Dissapointment
To begin with, let me say that I am a huge fan of Phillipa Gregory's. I read my paperback copy so many times that pages almost fell out. But after watching this movie I almost started hating the novel. Yes I understand that Hollywood has many difficulties in translating book to film, but this was basically a failure. So many literary AND historical inaccuracies it was laughable.
The mother was shown as too sympathetic and the father extremely weak, Mary and Anne became enemies much too ... Read More
Rating: - If you like drama and twisted story lines you'll like it but...
When I first watched this movie, I had no knowledge of its historical context.I just thought that it was a fictional story set in 15th or 16th century England.As I watched it though I quickly realized that it is one of Henry VIII's many love stories.Before viewing the movie I had little knowledge about Henry VIII other than he had six wives whom he beheaded.I was intrigued by the plot of the story and decided to investigate into the history of his rule a bit further.I quickly found out though ... Read More
Rating: - disappointed
i was excited to hear that there was going to be a movie based on the other bolyen girl book. the book is from mary boleyn's point of view. the movie, however, follows the point of view of anne boleyn. the acting was good, and the costumes where great but i just wished that they had stuck to the book a little more closely.
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