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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 9780767028189
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 076702818X
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 30, 2001
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 14631
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2001
Editorial Review:
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 01/30/2001 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
Boy loses girl, boy wins her back, boy loses her again and is killed in his pool. F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age tragedy once again makes a somewhat rocky transition from page to screen in this A&E production starring Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino as the feckless Daisy. This version has Paul Rudd (the stepbrother who got the girl in Clueless) doing the honors as narrator Nick, who reintroduces his married cousin to his lavish-party-throwing neighbor Gatsby. Toby Stephens captures the heartbreaking single-mindedness of Gatsby, although not once does the phrase 'old sport' seem to fall naturally from his lips. Director Robert Markowitz uses flashbacks of Daisy and Gatsby's prewar courtship in an attempt to explain their reckless relationship, but they do little more than slow the pace of an already leisurely 93 minutes. The costumes and sets are opulent, however, and Montreal substitutes nicely for Long Island. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Winning features are the Fitzgerald bio and his narrative text in movie
Pros and cons of the 2000 (UK, 2001 US) A&E version of The Great Gatsby have been extensively discussed. Suffice it to say, I value it because, unlike the 1974 movie, the 2000 one has Nick extensively voicing Fitzgerald's (1896-1940) beautiful prose.
However, the real winner on the 2000 Gatsby DVD is the extra, namely, the A&E biography: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer (1997). Narrated by Edward Herrmann, it is in 4:3 aspect and has a TT0:44:35. This A&E bio was ... Read More
Rating:  - Decent, but could have been better
Although I was eager to see the updated version of Fitzgerald's novel, by the end of the film I only felt lukewarm about its delivery. It seems that this version has its faults just like the older version did, but I would probably rate the older one a little better than this one.
Textually, many of the important parts of the book are there in this version. Unlike the 1974 version, this one does a great job of having Nick be the narrator--which seems to follow the book more. However, I ... Read More
Rating:  - the best version was with alan ladd.nothing since has come near
each time a new version arrives i think back to alan ladd who was perfect
as the great gatsby what on earth has happened to that film
Rating: - In the Footsteps of the Great Gatsby
I am a great fan of Toby Stephens, who consistently turns in splendid performances (even making the dour Mr. Rochester terribly appealing), but I believe that in the role of Jay Gatsby, Toby Stephens has been miscast. It is not merely that he cannot fit into Robert Redford's shoes, but he cannot fit into the shoes of Gatsby as F. Scott Fitzgerald has conceived him--larger than life; a man of mystery, who is anonymous in a crowd of what Shakespeare would have called "gilded butterflies" and what Fitzgerald ... Read More
Rating: - Misses the Point
I had the pleasure recently of re-reading the book and then watching both film versions. This version is definitely not the one to watch if you want any sense of the greatness of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. The other 1970's version was not perfect by any means. That film, led by Robert Redford, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, and Mia Farrow version essentially captured the subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the vapid lifestyle of the rich of the 1920's. Thanks to a superior script by Francis Ford ... Read More
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