Moll Flanders (Widescreen) [Import]
Author: Robin Wright
Brand: MGM (Video & DVD)
Features:
- Moll Flanders (Widescreen) Robin Wright Morgan Freeman Stockard Channing
Format: Anamorphic
Release Date: 07-10-2003
Details: Robin Wright gives an adolescent, one-note performance as Daniel Defoe's 18th-century heroine, who has successive experiences as an abandoned child, a prostitute, a wife (five times over!), a thief, an artist's model, a felon, and much else. Writer-director Pen Densham takes a Forrest Gump-like sentimental angle on Moll's many manifestations (quite a bit different from Terence Young's bawdy 1965 film version) and mostly succeeds in making a movie that is too silly, precious, and weepy. Morgan Freeman plays a narrator (who doesn't exist in the book), and there are some good performances from John Lynch, Stockard Channing, and Jeremy Brett. But by the time this wobbly adaptation reaches its sappy conclusion, one can't help but feel the overriding power of the film is to insult the intelligence with treacle. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
UPC: 027616857774
EAN: 0027616857774
Languages: English
Binding: DVD
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood