Alpha Male details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Patrick Baladi, Arthur Duncan, Christopher Egan, Jennifer Ehle, Danny Huston |
| Director: | Dan Wilde |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | VERVE PICTURES |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
|---|---|---|---|
Alpha Male |
1hr 36 mins | 15 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 36 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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Time Present and Time Past
By FrankIV (506 reviews) from Cirencester, England , 04 Mar 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
An English Country House family drama centreing on a bereavement which pretty well screws a whole family up in a low-key, very civilised Middle Class way. The film moves backwards and forwards in time, following threads, drawing parallels and showing the characters at different points in their lives. It's well plotted and very nicely played, with touching performances by Jennifer Ehle, Patrick Baladi and two very good child actors. Yes, it's 'slow', whatever that means, but unlike the other reviewers, I wasn't bored.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)OK if there is nothing else to watch
By Snowywhite (1 review) from Nottingham , 11 Oct 2008This film is slow to start and never really gets going. Not really one to bother with unless there isn't anything else to watch- Was this review helpful to you?
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What film?
By a customer from Midlands , 06 May 2008I cant say i remember seeing this film, but if Tesco says I did, I did. It washed over me and was gone as it is so insignificant.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Interesting, but not especially enlivening
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 18 Jun 2007One's heart sinks to discover another British film stuck in the bourgeois rut of a country house and posh people's problems, but Wilde's film unspools in a manner slightly more interesting than just another Merchant-Ivory knock-off. Perhaps taking his cue from 'Accident', the writer-director keeps everything very low-key, switching back and forth between two time-frames, trying to dissect why an apparently idyllic family fell apart, and what might put them back together again.
That much is interesting, but the clunking symbolism, the obvious parallels drawn between those two time-frames, and a refusal to acknowledge that anything else might have happened to these people over the intervening ten years, do mean that the film has precious little intellectual underpinning. It's fine to watch, but it falls apart as precipitately as the tree-house once you think about it afterwards.
It should be said, however, that Dan Wilde campaigned to have his name removed from the released version, since it had, apparently, been extensively recut by producer Trudie Styler (who also appears in the film, as the dead-eyed aunt), and he no longer considered it his film. So who's to say it might not once have been much better?- Was this review helpful to you?
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Absolute Tosh
By leescott gibbon from reading, england , 10 Mar 2007I watched the first ten minutes and realised what i was getting myself in for. Avoid this depressing rubbish at all costs.- Was this review helpful to you?
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dont bother!!
By a customer from norfolk england , 06 Mar 2007most boring film i have ever watched!!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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