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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Paradise road (Motion picture : 1997)

Title:

Paradise road / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Village Roadshow Pictures production in association with YTC Motion Picture Investments and Planet Pictures ; executive producers, Andrew Yap and Graham Burke ; produced by Sue Milliken and Greg Coote ; based on a story by David Giles and Martin Meader ; written and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital video

videodisc

DVD

video file DVD

Summary:

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Drama.

Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war -- Drama.

Music -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Music in prisons -- Drama.

Choirs (Music) -- Women -- Drama.

Female friendship -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

War films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Yap, Andrew.

Burke, Graham.

Beresford, Bruce.

Milliken, Sue, 1940-

Coote, Greg, 1942-2014

Close, Glenn, 1947-

McDormand, Frances.

Collins, Pauline, 1940-

Blanchett, Cate, 1969-

Ehle, Jennifer, 1969-

Margulies, Julianna, 1966-

Meader, Martin.

Giles, David.

Van Shaik, Leny.

Jeffrey, Betty, 1908-2000. White coolies.

Vrouwenkoor Malle Babbe.

Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Village Roadshow Pictures.

YTC Motion Picture Investments (Firm)

Planet Pictures (Firm)

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.

"Based in part on the diaries of Betty Jeffrey as published in White Coolies."

Includes theatrical trailer and trailers for other Fox films.

Director of photography, Peter James ; composer, Ross Edwards ; editor, Tim Wellburn.

Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Margulies ; featuring the voices of Vrouwenkoor Malle Babbe, Haarlem, The Netherlands, under the direction of Leny Van Shaik.

Developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission, Pacific Film and Television Commission ; produced with the assistance of the Queensland Government.

DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; NTSC ; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby surround.

English (Dolby or Dolby 5.1 surround) or French (Dolby surround) soundtrack; optional subtitles available in Spanish or English; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

LCCN:

2011604640

Publisher Number:

2001218

Other Number:

46771347

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

739573

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Paradise