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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783273358
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783273355
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 5991
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Modern love and classic romantic passion meet in this lush adaptation of A.S. Byatt's brilliant novel. Academics Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) and Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow) are experts on the work of two different Victorian poets. As they pursue a possible connection between their subjects, the two sleuths begin to stumble toward a romance of their own. Though it necessarily loses some of the depth of Byatt's original, Possession is a worthy adaptation, faithful to the book in both story and spirit. Director Neil LaBute uses clever and visually elegant methods of switching back and forth between time periods, subtly contrasting the prickly moderns and the swoony Victorians without making either pair seem unappealing. The movie also does an excellent job of capturing the exhilaration (and the politics) of intellectual discovery, and feels truly romantic without ever getting icky. Though Paltrow and Eckhart both succeed as the modern leads, the real standouts are Jeremy Northam as Randolph Henry Ash and Jennifer Ehle as Christabel LaMotte. Their passion gives the movie its romantic core and makes the whole search worthwhile. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - POSSESSION
POSSESSION (1999), set in England and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, and Jennifer Ehle, is an interwoven tale connecting the past with the present. Director Neil LaBute does a terrific job of mixing a period piece with contemporary times, weaving it into a seamless work of art. Based on the novel by A.S. Byatt, the film delineates the tale of two academic poets in contemporary London who set out to discover secrets of the past that are intricately tied to the present. In ... Read More
Rating:  - Undiscovered gem
A Film I first saw in a little independent cinema in the Somerset city of Bath, expecting nothing, but finding my heart bursting from its seams as the film unfolded.
A young American apprentice (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself amongst the snobbery of English literature circles, struggling for a space in the sun of acknowledgement, when he discovers secret love letters written by a Victorian poet (Jeremy Northam). Our American apprentice teams up with an English scholar (Gwyneth Paltrow), ... Read More
Rating: - Possession - the movie
I had rented this movie several times and decided I liked it enough to own it. I really fell in love with the intertwined stories - very moving and continues to hold my interest. The couple in present time are researching the couple from an older time. Each segment seems true to the characters and the characters from the past (the actors are great) are very convincing. I found this lovely. I also decided to buy the book, which is a best seller, because I wanted to embrace it at a higher level.
Rating:  - Brilliant book dumbed down for film
The book, Possession by A.S. Byatt, was one of the best novels I have read in years. Unfortunately, all of the themes that make it a wonderful novel - feminism, the expectations of society, British reserve, a woman's struggle between love and work, and much more - do not translate well to a movie, and of course don't appeal at all to the modern American moviegoer. The story lines were "dumbed down" to fit the just-under-2-hours pace of a movie, ignoring all of the subtleties that made these characters ... Read More
Rating: - A Fascinating Film
This is a mature, intelligent film (based upon the fictional novel (by the same title) by A.S. Byatt) starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle. Aaron Eckhart plays Roland Mitchell, an American graduate student working at a museum in London who stumbles upon a previously unaccounted for original letter, written by the (fictional) Victorian poet laureate, Randolph Ash (played by Jeremy Northam). The particular letter is of a rather racy nature and turns out to be directed ... Read More
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