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Whistle Stopper - The Buccaneers
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $8.15
Your Save: $ 6.83 ( 46% )
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Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Starring: Carla Gugino, Mira Sorvino, Gwen Humble, Conchata Ferrell, Peter Michael Goetz
Directed By: Philip Saville
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051249425
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-04-18
Running Time: 302
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-10-08
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Skip it
Comment: I love period dramas, but this was the worst. I did not even finish the movie because it was awful. The immorality alone took it from period drama to pandering soap opera. The characters are weak-willed, lack integrity and make mistake after mistake which they resolve by less than noble means. From homosexuality to abortion to infidelity, this movie was totally tasteless and not deserving of anyone's time or attention. Skip it.
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Summary: Depressing....and well depressing
Comment: I usually am a fan of period pieces, but this movie is so depressing. It makes you never want to be a Duchess for sure. It was long and depressing. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: A great Masterpiece series
Comment: The Buccaneers was a BBC mini-series I had seen and greatly enjoyed in 1995. It is the story of four American girls who dream of love with high-society English men. Their happiness is short-lived. The story is very interesting. I was really glad to see it again.
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Summary: My FAVORITE!
Comment: I have watched this movie countless times since it was released on video. It remains my all-time favorite and I now own it on DVD as well. A great addition to the library of any lover of period costume drama. I only wish it was longer.
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Summary: Don't Bother...read the book if you really want to enjoy the "Buccaneers"!
Comment: I had high hopes for this DVD. I should have thought twice about it. Even though the price is right the movie is very low quality. The acting is very poor. Where did they find these people??? Oh yeah...that's right where did they find them...except for a few I have never seen any of them before or since! The actress who played the mother of the lead was a nightmare! Really except for Mira Sorvino and Greg Wise the rest were B-actors at best, and you hardly see them in the stupid production!
I think the problem was that it was low budgeted and hastily made. It sure seemed so to me. For a BBC production I sure would have expected much better.
Rent, borrow or just read the book! Don't buy this one, you won't watch it a 2nd time!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Deemed nouveau riche and shunned by elitist New York society, sisters Nan and Virginia St. George, along with their friends Lizzy Elmsworth and Conchita Closson (Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino), try their luck in London. The girls' New World spontaneity and impertinence constitute nothing less than a social invasion of Old World society and they soon find themselves courted by a coterie of fascinated admirers. But as the old and new worlds come to clash, something has to give.
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