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2008 Certificate 18
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A young ambitious architect buys a ruined cottage to transform. But, the building, in an isolated Irish valley, has a history. And, when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant the neighboring farmers turn against her and her unborn child and try to change the course of nature. A drama with supernatural overtones, a thriller .. Read more

Starring Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Oscar Pearce
Director Nicolas Roeg
Genres Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller

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A young ambitious architect buys a ruined cottage to transform. But, the building, in an isolated Irish valley, has a history. And, when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant the neighboring farmers turn against her and her unborn child and try to change the course of nature. A drama with supernatural overtones, a thriller about love, life, grief and sex, "Puffball" is an adaptation of the Fay Weldon novel of the same name.

Starring Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Oscar Pearce, Leona Igoe, Caoimhe Gilsenan, Laoise Gilsenan, William Houston, Tina Kellegher, Pat Deery, Ronald Daniels
Director Nicolas Roeg
Studio YUME PICTURES
Run time DVD: 2 hrs
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 23 Mar 2009
Production year: 2008
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of

    Nic Roegs long-awaited return to the big screen takes the form of an atmospheric if modestly scaled adaptation of a... read more on Time Out

    • Wally Hammond, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 26 out of 27 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    not good, dont expect anthing great

    very disappointing considering Roegs other works

    wikipedia states this to be a £7,000,000 production, that just cant be true. looks like a made for tv movie but worse, honestly im not being cynical, its just bad.

    if i rated 'dont look now' as harshly as i could (but i cant cos its great), puffball would still be thousands of time worse, please let me know if i am missing something here

    id wait for the rest of the bad reviews to come in first before you go see it, like i did.

    at least watch some trailers or clips on youtube before you entrust this film with entertaining you for an evening

    i recommend spending your money on roegs better works if youve not seen them

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 12 Jul 2008 unknown

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    not as bad as they say

    i ordered this film because i read the book a long time ago and remembered quite liking it. I then read the other reviews. Really it's not bad. It's not brilliant or anything but it's a good girlie movie for a wet afternoon. It's really like a telly movie. I liked it!

      • A customer from LONDON
      • Posted 14 Jun 2009 19:07

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      • A young ambitious architect buys a ruined cottage to transform. But, the building, in an isolated Irish valley, has a history. And, when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant the neighboring ...