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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929008216
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 9919
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An extraordinary tale of sex passion and royal intrigue. This is the little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister Anne. Inspired by Philippa Gregory's best selling novel this film is about great families jockeying for position and using their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history it is a powerful narrative and at its heart is the relationship between two rivals - the Boleyn sisters.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 883929008216 Manufacturer No: 1000036754
Amazon.com:
King Henry VIII and his passions are so gripping, viewers still can't get enough of them nearly five centuries later. Consider the riveting British drama The Other Boleyn Girl, witty, tragic, and as full of real emotions as, well, Jane Austen's novels. The BBC film, based on the novel by Philippa Gregory (and remade into a much glossier Hollywood version in 2008), allows the viewer to sympathize with the plight of women in 16th-century England, while being slightly revolted by the whole sticky mess.
Imagine two sisters whose father and entire family encourage them to debase themselves to curry favor with the handsome young King Henry (Jared Harris, Ocean's Twelve, To the Ends of the Earth). Mary Boleyn, played with winsome gravity by Natascha McElhone (Californication), is the first sister to catch the eye of the king, grown weary of his wife, Queen Katherine (Yolanda Vazquez, Notting Hill). 'Use your wiles!' insists Mary's father, Sir Thomas Boleyn (noted British theater actor Jack Shepherd), as the appalled, newly married young woman tries to resist. Mary ultimately carries on an affair with the king and bears him an illegitimate son--but sister Anne sees her own opening as the king becomes restless again.
The film takes a decidedly modern approach to this period drama, by having the sisters occasionally speak directly to the camera, confessing their deepest desires (since clearly their own family couldn't care less). The men around them are desperate to advance their standing in the court and don't hesitate to push the young sisters into moral harm's way to get what they want. Things take a dangerous turn when Anne, played by the revelatory Jodhi May (Defiance), musters up ambition of her own to be not only a royal plaything but queen herself. The lack of a male heir, however, and Anne's own pride begin to spell her downfall, as her family distances themselves ('don't let that girl sink us all alongside her!' her horrified, and somewhat horrifying, father declares). It's the film's great achievement that though we know (most of) the end of the tale, we remain riveted to the very end. --A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Other Adaptation
The story of the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn certainly has enjoyed a lot of exposure lately with two years of the Showtime series The Tudors - The Complete First Season full swing and the 2008 Hollywood adaptation of Philippa Gregory's novel, The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman as the ill-fated second wife of Henry VIII now released on DVD. With these money-generating Tudor-related vehicles generating such popularity, it comes as little surprise that an older once-televised version ... Read More
Rating:  - Good BBC Costume Drama
This inexpensive production of The Other Boleyn Girl grows on you. I first got caught by seeing who the actors were, the girl from Californication, and the one from Mansfield Park. I thought I'd watch them and see how the show was. I didn't like it that much at first, but it does grow on you and it is enjoyable. The cheapness of the production and some of the shoddy direction is irritating but you get used to it after awhile and can overlook it. I disliked the "talking heads" voice over style ... Read More
Rating:  - Beautifully Done
This movie is beautifully done; the acting is outstanding. Jodhi May makes a perfect Anne Boleyn.
Rating: - Compared to the American version
I feel that this movie, compared to the American version, follows the book a little bit more closely. When I saw the American version, I was appalled at how the movie did not follow the book in any manner. They made it seem like the whole part of history (several years worth) happen in 3 months. I will admit that the book is excellent, so it is hard for any movie adaptation to match up to that caliber. At least this movie tries.
Rating:  - dissapointed
I had read the book about 6 months ago, I thought it was one of the best books I had read in a long time...My mistake was reading the book first. If I would have known that they were making a movie I would never had read it. The movie was like a short intro to the book. They left out so, so much of the story. Whoever edited that movie should be shot. The rivalry between the sisters was so downplayed. The king being really hurt, getting fatter and uglyer. His real relation with the Queen, etc. ... Read More
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