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A Delicate Balance on DVD (1973)

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Average rating: 50%
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Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, Betsy Blair
Director: Tony Richardson
Studio: IND-DVD LTD
Run time: 130 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: 26/07/2004

Brief synopsis of A Delicate Balance

Tony Richardson directs Katherine Hepburn and Paul Scofield in this American Film Theatre adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Despite an extraordinary cast, this version of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play — directed by Tony Richardson for TV's American Film Theatre — is a stiff narrative about a neurotic Connecticut family that goes to war with itself and its friends. Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair pull out the dramatic stops, but the result remains defiantly stagebound.

Time Out

Albee's powerful, coruscatingly brilliant study of tribal rites among the New England jet set. It is also first and... Read more on www.timeout.com

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Honourable but slightly boring film version of an essentially theatrical play: the acting is the thing.

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Rated - 3 starsA Theatrical Experience

FrankIV [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/05/2005

A Great American Play in the tradition of Great American Playwrights from O'Neill to Mamet with all that you would expect in the way of high language, dramatic monologues, emotional intensity and grand themes.

Although, according to the credits, Albee adapted the play for the screen, it remains an essentially theatrical experience, however many times the camera peeps out from behind props, moves in for close-ups or undertakes discreet tracking movements. It is, though, a thoroughly absorbing work, the words are great and the actors speaking them are magnificent. It's more a filmed record of a theatrical event than a film, though.

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Rated - 5 starsHELP

A customer from Minehead,Somerset , 02/03/2005

Absolute RUBBISH----please do not watch this DRIVEL---iet is AWFUL

I had to give it one star to enable me to write this--it doesn't deserve it !!

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Rated - 1 starsZzzzzzzz....

A customer from Northamapton , 28/02/2005

I think this film should have remained a stage production. It was very boring, in fact I could not finish watching it. All I can say it would make a brillient cure for any insomniacs.

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Rated - 5 starsANOTHER MUST SEE PLAY/FILM

Paul McGovern from RUISLIP. MIDDX. , 22/08/2005

Cathrine Hepburn in top form.Lee Remick

Has never been out shone by anybody.

gives another fine performance Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair as the friends,are given no great part. Paul Scofield I just cannot make my mind up very stiff in the opening scenes but perhaps this is part of the weak farther he portrays.now Kate Reid as the drunken sister is a sheer delight.Must See. P.M.

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Rated - 3 starsA Theatrical Experience

FrankIV [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/05/2005

A Great American Play in the tradition of Great American Playwrights from O'Neill to Mamet with all that you would expect in the way of high language, dramatic monologues, emotional intensity and grand themes.

Although, according to the credits, Albee adapted the play for the screen, it remains an essentially theatrical experience, however many times the camera peeps out from behind props, moves in for close-ups or undertakes discreet tracking movements. It is, though, a thoroughly absorbing work, the words are great and the actors speaking them are magnificent. It's more a filmed record of a theatrical event than a film, though.

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Rated - 3 starsBalancing Act

A customer from Keighley , 04/08/2008

Film version of theatre piece that remains an elliptical and somewhat unsatisfactory drama. Hepburn is relentlessly sparkling and as a result Paul Scofield plays her from the back court.

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