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| My Family And Other Animals [1987] | ![My Family And Other Animals [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TCL%2BVgD2L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Peter Barber-fleming
Actors: Brian Blessed, Hannah Gordon, Darren Redmayne
Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1639
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 250 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5028836031086
ASIN: B000HCO58O
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
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 Sun-drenched November 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I too had been hoping for this release, having read several of Gerald Durrell's books and also having been most disappointed by the recent release, with Imelda Staunton. This is so beautifully filmed (no wonder the BBC Natural Hisory Unit were involved) that my memory of it as a sun-filled oasis before a hard week at work was not disappointed, as 20 year-old memories so often are. The performances of every family member, and those closely associated with them, were memorable. Surely Brian Blessed was born to play Spiro? Hannah Gordon is an excellent Mother: warm but slightly eccentric, tossing a whole scorpion (mercifully dead) into one of her culinary inventions. I am resisting singling out the rest of the family for praise but a mention must go to young Gerry, played by Darren Redmayne: a most convincing Gerry, obsessed by nature, together with his mentor Theo (who I think of every time I say "as you know..."). Do watch it, whether you remember the original or not!
 My Family and Other Animals October 29, 2006
48 out of 48 found this review helpful
I had been hoping for some time that this adaptation would be released on disc but was irritated to find that certain memorable sequences have been cut from this version. Viewers will miss the humour at the Greek customs of Mother Durrell's bag being retained, of Margot in full cry from an upper window, of some of the eccentricities of Larry's artist friends. Also a surrealistic scene of the family eating of a table in the sea and the conclusion has been docked of references to the political tension in Europe in the late 1930's. Still most of the film has survived intact and all the chief performers turn in first class performances.
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