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Walking Across Egypt on DVD (2000)

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Average rating: 56%
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3.0
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Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Edward Herrmann, Dana Ivey, Harve Presnell
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Studio: HOLLYWOOD DVD LTD
Run time: 100 mins
Certificate: PG
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: 22/10/2001

Brief synopsis of Walking Across Egypt

Wesley is a juvenile delinquent who is in and out of trouble. Mattie is a lonely widow with spoilt grown-up children. He finds the other a soft touch and she wants to give him another chance...

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Based on a novel by Clyde Edgerton, this is yet another eloquent showcase for the talents of Ellen Burstyn. Abandoned by her grown-up children, Judge Reinhold and Gail O'Grady, the small-town God-fearing busybody sets out to reform dogcatcher Mark Hamill and his delinquent orphan nephew, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. This could easily have lapsed into liberal sentimentality. But quadruple Emmy-winning director Arthur Allan Seidelman brings a shabby Deep Southern charm to proceedings that are brimful of gently comic set pieces and wry wisdom. The supporting cast, which includes Dana Ivey and Gwen Verdon, is impressive. But Burstyn is impeccable.

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Rated - 4 starsSecond Chance Feel Good Story

Dave Redmayne from Newcastle, UK , 04/01/2005

It starts with a stray strolling up to an old ladies house .. she feeds him then calls the pound and then proceeds to get stuck with her bottom through a seatless rocking chair. When the Dog Catcher (Mark Hamill) arrives he frees her and she finds out about another stray ... the Dog Catcher's nephew ...

The story unfolds and she befriends the nephew and Dog Catcher - much to the dismay of the religious community.

Its a feel good story with Jonathan Taylor Thomas as an untamed youth who's myriad of faults dont deter the old lady from helping him find his way.

Worth seeing again in my opinion.

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Rated - 5 starsFamily Fun.

A customer from Hertfordshire , 11/10/2006

We enjoyed this film.

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Rated - 4 starsA rare gem

A customer from Norfolk , 18/11/2005

Its true then, movies don't have to be sexually charged or violent to be enjoyable. This is definitely a feel good movie. The acting was certainly not to academy award standard- but that didn't matter one bit! Good story- and an uplfting ending.

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Rated - 5 starsFamily Fun.

A customer from Hertfordshire , 11/10/2006

We enjoyed this film.

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Rated - 3 starsTime stood still

Cato , 26/01/2006

Walking across Egypt is obviously a Southern American saying for walking a long distance because this film had neither camels nor pyramids in it. What it did have was a plot which could have appeared in any American film of the past 75 years, together with all the sentimentalism that is particularly to be found in a great deal of USA culture.

Basically we have a church going old grannie, well played by Ellen Burstyn, meeting a young tearaway in the local youth correction centre after being told of his existence by the boy's uncle, the local dog catcher. A relationship bulds up, along the lines of surrogate grandma/grandson. Plenty of the action is sugary and anodyne, and the ending is make believe. The redeeming features are the acting (most Americans do it rather well) and the direction, which is well paced. But be prepared to wallow.

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