Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Bright star [videorecording] / Pathé, Screen Australia, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and Hopscotch International, a Jan Chapman production in association with Caroline Hewitt, a Jane Campion film ; produced by Caroline Hewitt ; produced by Jan Chapman ; written and directed by Jane Campion.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2010]

Description:

1 video disc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking.

Subjects:

Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Drama.

Brawne, Fanny, 1800-1865 -- Drama.

Sick -- England -- Drama.

Brothers -- England -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama.

Historical films.

Romance films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.