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| Burned Bridge [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Burned Bridge [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A1QZ8DT8L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Julian Pringle, Kate Woods, Paul Faint, Scott Hartford-davis
Actors: Ernie Dingo, Cate Blanchett, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Steven Vidler
Studio: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: £47.96
Buy New/Used from £47.96
Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 135458
Format: Box Set, Colour, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 645 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0779255879
UPC: 066805305870
EAN: 9780779255870
ASIN: B00008AORX
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 the best mini series ever - and great sentimental value 4 me July 23, 2004
Well I don't care what the other reviewer said... this is a FIVE STAR series for me. I watched this weekly on Australian TV, on the ABC, in the early nineties, 1992 I think, from memory. I LOVED IT and it was compulsive viewing. It stared Ernie Dingo, an Australian Aboriginal comedian/actor, in a dramatic role for a change. It also stared a pale, slightly strange-looking, unknown Australian actress called Cate Blanchett! This would have been the first thing I ever saw her in and way before she was famous. I do remember it fondly and remember the story - the love story and the murder/thriller story - and couldn't wait each week to see what was going to happen. The TV series was called HEARTLAND in Australia and I have searched in vain all these years for it, wishing it would be released. I have tried Australian stores, even the ABC themselves but could only find a book! And now... here it is, admittedly on NTSC and under a different name - but found it at last!pI have just ordered this version today and cannot wait for it to arrive so I can settle down to 650 minutes of uninterrupted viewing!pA great story set in the Australian outback, a cross-cultural love story, a murder mystery, drama, what more could you ask for?pGo ahead treat yourself!pPS the guy who plays the racist policeman is also a selling point as he's pretty nice to look at too!
 A 2-hour story told interminably in 11 May 10, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was drawn to BURNED BRIDGE to see the marvelous Australian actress Cate Blanchett early in her career - much as I watched the British comedy series THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY to ogle the budding Catherine Zeta-Jones.pBroadcast on Aussie TV in the early 90s, BURNED BRIDGE is set in the coastal town of Brooklyn Waters in New South Wales. There, Elizabeth Ashton (Blanchett), a Sydney radio show producer, takes up temporary residence in the house of her recently-deceased grandfather with the intention of selling the place. As it so happens, the homestead is immediately adjacent to an aboriginal mission settlement, which becomes restive when one of its teenage boys, Ricky Dyer (Bradley Byquar), is accused of the brutal rape-murder of his girlfriend, the daughter from a neighboring aboriginal family. After a shaky and dubious confession, Ricky is inexorably drawn into the state justice system, and eventually dragged off to the Big Jail in Sydney pending trial. The only believer in Dyer's innocence, outside Ricky's family, is Vincent Burunga (Ernie Dingo), the aboriginal liaison officer between the white police establishment and the natives.pBURNED BRIDGE is actually two stories, one being Burunga's efforts to free Ricky, and the other being a commentary on the contemporary state of relations between Whites and Blacks in Australia, a country that, from its federation in 1901 to 1966, shamefully pursued a national "for-whites-only" policy, and only granted the Aborigenes full citizenship in 1967. To say there's tension would be an understatement. In any case, the fault line between the races is here represented, on a general level, by the White Man's Law versus "the Law" of aboriginal tradition, and, on a personal level, by the growing romantic attraction between Vincent and Elizabeth.pThe murder mystery part of this miniseries would have been pretty good, perhaps four stars, if it hadn't been diluted by the various subplots involving race interactions and the collision of cultural values: Ashton learns that her grandfather sired a son by a Ricky's mother, the boy subsequently being adopted and raised by a White family; Elizabeth accompanies Vincent to his native homeland in Western Australia, where he's abandoned a wife and daughter; Burunga visits Sydney with Ashton, where she's disentangling herself from a failed marriage to the despicable host of a radio call-in program. These scenarios are soap opera fodder at its best (or worst), and I hate soap operas. Frankly, I was prepared to pack it in after finishing the first disc of three, but the wife wanted to carry boldly on. I staggered along to be companionable.pThe only real enjoyment I got from this 650-minute epic was watching Cate. Otherwise, there were long stretches so tedious that my feeling was "Just shoot me!" Especially when Vincent or the aged patriarch of Ricky's mob are off in the scrub staring meaningfully into space from a hilltop while contemplating "the Law", or scrambling around some sacred precinct of ravines, rocks and brambles traditionally revered by the local aboriginal tribe. Watching them ponder life and its problems from the vantage point of a table at the local Starbuck's would have been just as riveting.pBecause I know the producers of BURNED BRIDGE meant well in making an informative and politically correct statement about contemporary Australian white society vis-a-vis aboriginal culture, I was tempted to award three stars. But, because I was so darn grateful just to see the end of it, and because I'm not from Down Under, I can only justify two.pA much better and more engaging film about the Aborigenes' role in relatively recent Australian history is RABBIT PROOF FENCE, which was released a couple years ago. Rent that instead.
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