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Gulliver's Travels
1996
This acclaimed made-for-television version of Swift's fantasy employs an all-star cast (led by Ted Danson) and superior special effects to portray all four books in the cycle. From Lilliput and Brobdingnag to Laputa and the lands of the Struldbruggs and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's nine-year odyssey and his struggle to prove his .. Read more
| Starring | Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty |
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| Director | Charles Sturridge |
| Genres | Drama |
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Gulliver's Travels
This acclaimed made-for-television version of Swift's fantasy employs an all-star cast (led by Ted Danson) and superior special effects to portray all four books in the cycle. From Lilliput and Brobdingnag to Laputa and the lands of the Struldbruggs and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's nine-year odyssey and his struggle to prove his sanity are vividly brought to life.
| Starring | Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy, Shashi Kapoor, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, John Standin |
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| Director | Charles Sturridge |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1996 |
| Format | DVD |
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Great story, very well adapted--shame about the casting
This is a visually stunning adaptation of the great novel by Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote this story as a satire on the many wrongs of English society in the XVIII century, and the point of placing the hero in different lands is to provide contrast with Gulliver's native England. This allows for constant changes in location, which are on the whole handled very well. The sets for the sequences occurring in Lilliput (the land of the little people)are remarkable, and all in all this is an enjoyable story with a message. Shame about the casting: Ted Danson is his usual flat, uncharismatic, shallow self. The role calls for someone who can go from respectability to despair to lunacy to love and reconciliation. Ted Danson doesn't even know what these things are.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Great story, very well adapted--shame about the casting
This is a visually stunning adaptation of the great novel by Jonathan Swift. Swift wrote this story as a satire on the many wrongs of English society in the XVIII century, and the point of placing the hero in different lands is to provide contrast with Gulliver's native England. This allows for constant changes in location, which are on the whole handled very well. The sets for the sequences occurring in Lilliput (the land of the little people)are remarkable, and all in all this is an enjoyable story with a message. Shame about the casting: Ted Danson is his usual flat, uncharismatic, shallow self. The role calls for someone who can go from respectability to despair to lunacy to love and reconciliation. Ted Danson doesn't even know what these things are.
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Blunt & Segel tapped for Gulliver roles
- 31 Jan 2009
Emily Blunt and Jason Segel have been tapped to join funnyman Jack Black in a new movie version of fictional adventure book Gulliver's Travels. The pair are reportedly negotiating with bosses at Twentieth Century Fox to co-star with Black, who signed on in November (08) to play a travel writer who gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle and washes up on an island of tiny people. The film, to be directed by Shark Tale's Rob Letterman, will give a modern spin to Jonathan Swift's classic 18th century... Read more
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