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| The House Of Mirth [2000] | ![The House Of Mirth [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413Y4EXRZ1L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Terence Davies
Actors: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eric Stoltz, Terry Kinney, Anthony La Paglia
Studio: Cinema Club
Category: Video
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Format: Closed-captioned, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
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Running Time: 134 minutes
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Release Date: May 6, 2002
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Cut Dead May 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an adaptation of a novel by the American heiress and novelist Edith Wharton. The story is of a young lady in New York just after the end of the Victorian Age (which term is correct here even though the action is all set in the USA); the film ends in 1907. She acts with honour, but her "friends" and family do not and she is gradually reduced to lower and lower levels of employment as her "expectations" of inheritance and marriage fall through one by one.br /br /I looked carefully to see where the film was filmed, because some locations looked a bit like Wharton's own country house on the New York State-Massachusetts border (near Lennox), which I visited many years ago (an extraordinary creation, like a French manoir one side and a grander 18th Century French house on the other!). But no, the filming was in several places, including in country houses and in cities (Glasgow, it seems in both Scotland and England. The film was nominated for Best English Film for a BAFTA.br /br /The film starts off ultra-stagy, like an adaptation of Oscar Wilde in terms of dialogue. I nearly just ended it there, but stuck with it and, indeed, it does improve hugely by the end. Worth seeing.
 Goodbye to Dana Scully......... January 4, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like most people, I was highly skeptical that Gillian Anderson would make the transition from TV star of the phenomenally successful X-Files series to movie star - but in this film she has done just that.brFrom the first moment we see her, all thoughts of Dana Scully become just a memory. From her sumptuous costumes, to the accent and interplay with her fellow actors - everything tells you that Gillian has come of age as an actress and into a fully fledged movie star.brHer character, Lily a social butterfly, is desperately in love with a handsome, socially acceptable but poor lawyer (brilliantly underplayed by Eric Stoltz). Unfortunately it would be social suicide for her to marry him and so she casts her eye around for a richer alternative, as desired for her by various friends.brGillian does the character more than enough justice - in the beginning we are introduced to a woman that cares little for anything except money and social standing. By the middle of the film, we find that due to circumstances orchestrated by outside influences, Lily has begun to change. By the end of the film, the audience are right there with her - through her attempts to stop herself from falling so far that everything she cares about is beyond reach.brBeautifully shot and wonderful acting by all concerned (special mention to Dan Ackroyd and Anthony LaPaglia) make this period drama outstanding.
 bloody awful November 13, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have to say that even though wen buying a period drama, u don't expect to feel wildly entertained, just more intellectual wen its finished, this was such a boring film. but if ure looking for godd performances dan aykroyd and gillian anderson just made it watchable.
LOVE AND HONOR ...AT WHAT PRICE? December 3, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
In this lavish and beautifully costumed period piece based upon Edith Wharton's novel of the same name, Gillian Anderson gives an inspired and luminous performance as Lily Bart, a rising young New York socialite who is ultimately done in by a ruthless friend , deliciously played by Laura Tinney, who cruelly sacrifices Lily to save her own reputation.pThe dry repartee in which Lily engages and passes for wit in this bygone era sets the tone for the film. It is a carefully orchestrated show in which marriageable society girls engage in order to snag the wealthiest suitor. While Lily Bart is the cream of the crop, she has the misfortune to have given her heart to a socially acceptable, yet financially constrained, lawyer, Laurence Selden, wonderfully portrayed by Eric Stoltz. Her heart claimed by this most unsuitable of suitors, she dallys, refusing to commit to any others while her star is still in the ascendant.pLily finds herself making an unwise financial transaction, which puts her at the mercy of an unscrupulous and smarmy financial investor named Gus Trennor, well played by Dan Akroyd. When he puts Lily in a compromising position in return for the money he now claims that she owes him, she indignantly spurns his advances and incurs his emnity. Meanwhile, her aunt, upon whom Lily is financially dependent, hearing of her financial indiscretion, is appalled and vitually cuts Lily out of her will, leaving her a small determinate sum, rather than making Lily her sole heir as expected.pMeanwhile, her friend, devilishly played by Laura Tinney, is on the verge of having her marital indiscretions made known to her circle of society friends. She throws everyone off the scent by cutting her friend Lily in a most public fashion with all the attendant insinuations from which much may be inferred. This has the net effect of causing Lily to fall totally into social disgrace. Her star is now very much on the descent.pWhen her aunt dies, and Lily is left virtually penniless, Lily finds herself alone and on a downward spiral, forced to earn her daily bread for the first time in her life. Abandoned by her friends, she despairs, even though she has the means of regaining her former status at her fingertips, would her information not also sully the reputation of her true love, Lawrence Selden, as well as that of the false friend who brought her to this point. To her detriment, she takes the high road of love and honor. Too late, Selden realizes the sacrifice that Lily has made on his behalf.pWhat happens to Lily and why is an interesting study of human frailties, class consciousness, social status, and honor. This film is a beautifully and richly costumed period piece with bravura perfomances by the entire cast. Those who are fond of period dramas will surely enjoy this leisurely paced, carefully orchestrated film.
bring kleenex January 4, 2001
I saw this film on the very day that it was release, and it took me three hours on a smelly bus, but I would happily go double that for this film, it is without a doubt THE best film I have ever seen, if Gillian does not get the oscar that she deserves for this I will cry, just like the whole audience did at the end... yes even the men! buy it! please. oh, and look out for Gillian andersons daughter pipers cameo! kath
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