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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767837958
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767837959
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 14878
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Many thought The Winslow Boy was an odd choice of material for David Mamet. It was originally a Terence Rattigan play from 1946, taken from a true incident in England in 1908 about a boy, 13, discharged from Royal Naval College for allegedly stealing and cashing a five-shilling postal order. The boy's father, Arthur Winslow (Nigel Hawthorne), mounts a lengthy and expensive legal campaign to clear his boy's and by extension his own name, with the rallying cry, 'Let right be done!' The resultant notoriety, the dwindling fortune of the Winslows, as well as the punishment this pressure exacts on them, form the surface action of the story. Yet underneath the staid manners of the dialogue there roils a whole emotional life hardly hinted at in the actors' faces. The famous lawyer engaged to defend the boy, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), makes a suitable sparring partner for the Winslows' daughter, Catherine (Rebecca Pidgeon), a suffragette whose suitors are scared off by the family's legal battle. The unspoken romance between these two is more the point than whether right is done or not. Pidgeon brings the same inscrutable countenance that complicated her role in Mamet's previous film, The Spanish Prisoner, to this film--but here everybody seems to have it. As the differences between appearance and actuality reconcile themselves, Mamet builds bridges to his other works, House of Games and The Spanish Prisoner, for instance, for the ways in which dialogue is a cover for someone's true nature. The Winslow Boy is masterful in its quiet treatment of human mysteries. --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Most of you missed the point
It must be discouraging to Mamet to have so many completely miss the point of this movie. This movie is not about "right" or "justice" or "honor" or "perseverance" or any of the stuff mentioned by many other reviewers (at least the several that I read). It is about epigamic differentiation, a biological phenomenon known to most of you as "love at first sight". It is a romance, completely and entirely, between Pidgeon's character (Catherine) and Northam's (Sir Robert). It is all there, but disguised ... Read More
Rating: - Great movie for a Jane Austen fan
This an enjoyable film.
I stumbled upon it in the video store.
I love movies that are clean and historical in nature.
I think I might just add this one to my collection.
Rating: - A Case of Honor...And Potential Romance
Terrence Rattigan's 1946 play undergoes another onscreen incarnation in this study of a family whose honor is stake. The stereotypical staidness of the British upper-class makes itself felt, even in the elegant well-orchestrated theme music.
Based on the real-life 1908 case of young George Archer-Shee, the story is about the 13-year old son of a retired banker (Nigel Hawthorne)named Ronnie(a fair and staid looking Guy Edwards, whose sunny complexion stands out against his predominantly brunette ... Read More
Rating: - A British remake
The acting is good and they have remained faithful to the earlier script of the 1950's version but I really prefer the first movie. If you are looking for a good British drama, you won't be disappointed but see the older version as well.
Rating: - a subtly sexy family film!
Rebecca Pidgeon and Jeremy Northam's fine performances fuel the supremely sexy subtext of a film that at first glance tackles the topic of honor and truth. Equally fascinating is David Mamet's (I repeat: David Mamet's!)profound exegesis of a topic rarely explored by modern filmmakers--namely, a happy family. His portrayals of parental, filial, fraternal and of course romantic love are in my opinion unparalleled in any movie, ever. Furthermore,of particular interest is The Winslow Boy's fine use of costume ... Read More
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