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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0616892594925
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Film Movement
Manufacturer: Film Movement
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Film Movement
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 01, 2005
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 87045
Studio: Film Movement
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Carol Shields, The Republic of Love is a romantic comedy about the barriers facing the lucky and the unlucky in love in the 21st century. Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host whose unconventional upbringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love and marry. Fay is an academic whose expectations are impossibly high as a result of the living perfection that is her parents' marriage. The characters connect in a maze of malls, condos and family homes, underpinning the idea that 'geography is destiny' and that each of us has our own 'republic', where lives intersect.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - even better than the book
The Republic of LoveThe book was good, but this is one of those rare cases where the movie is better. A terrific cast--including the too-little-known Bruce Greenwood (JFK in "Thirteen Days") and a real-life as well as onscreen father-daughter pair, James and Emilia Fox--gives us a terrific look at love.
Rating:  - Meditation on love and marriage
Film follows three couples: elderly couple who have spent their lives together without being married, couple that celebrates 40 years of marriage and a middle aged couple in a new relatioship on a crossroads of deciding if they want to get married or not. We learn that relationships are never what they seem to be to the outsiders. What seems to be perfect 40-year long relationship ends up in trial separation and what seems to be uncommited casual relationship ends up in marriage in a hospital death ... Read More
Rating: - VERY FINE FILM
Adaptations are tough, they can never be completely faithful, but this film does well. We own it and have seen it several times. Much more insight into human nature than a standard formula romance or romantic comedy.
Rating: - An Intelligent Script from a Pulitzer Prize Novelist Delivered by a Top Cast!
THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE is yet another fine film from Canada based on Canadian Pulitzer Prize Winner (for 'The Stone Diaries') Carol Shields' novel by the same name, and written for the screen and directed by the gifted Deepa Mehta ('Earth', 'Fire', 'Water', etc). It is a satisfying story about the human boundaries set by/for love and how those 'republics' touch and clash and interact.
Tom Avery (the very gifted actor Bruce Greenwood) was an illegitimate child, raised by a homemaker class as ... Read More
Rating: - Lovely
This is a very nice love story that is fairly conventional on one level (love at first sight) but has the more comfortable pacing and luminous imagery of independent films that makes it a bit more original. I hadn't read the novel to be able to make comparisons, but I can see how a lot probably had to be abbreviated. The two leads are excellent. Bruce Greenwood is one of my favorite actors, and it is only because he is so appealing that his character Tom (who has been married 3 times and impulsively falls ... Read More
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