Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Belle / Fox Searchlight Pictures, Isle of Man Film and Pinewood Pictures and BFI present ; in association with Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology ; a DJ Films production ; an Amma Asante film ; produced by Damian Jones ; written by Misan Sagay ; directed by Amma Asante.

Edition:

[Blu-ray edition]

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

region A

Summary:

Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

Belle, Dido Elizabeth, 1761-1804 -- Drama.

Racially mixed people -- England -- Biography -- Drama.

Antislavery movements -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Historical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Other Author:

Asante, Amma, 1969- film director.

Jones, Damian, 1964- film producer.

Sagay, Misan, screenwriter.

Smithard, Ben, director of photography.

Portman, Rachel, composer (expression)

Di Ciaula, Pia, editor of moving image work.

Boydell, Victoria, editor of moving image work.

Mbatha-Raw, Gugu, 1983- actor.

Wilkinson, Tom, 1948-2023 actor.

Watson, Emily, 1967- actor.

Reid, Sam, 1987- actor.

Gadon, Sarah, 1987- actor.

Richardson, Miranda, actor.

Wilton, Penelope, 1946- actor.

Felton, Tom, 1987- actor.

Norton, James, 1985- actor.

Goode, Matthew, 1978- actor.

Fox Searchlight Pictures, production company.

Isle of Man Film Limited, production company.

Pinewood Studios, production company.

British Film Institute, production company.

DJ Films, production company.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., film distributor.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Belle (Motion picture : 2013)

Notes:

Blu-ray; disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles.

Audio and subtitle listings on container differ from content on disc.

Based on a true story.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.

Bonus features: Belle: the story; Gugu Mbatha-Raw breakout role; The power of Belle; From painting to screen; The history behind the painting; still gallery; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Ben Smithard ; editors, Pia di Ciaula, Victoria Boydell ; music, Rachel Portman.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Sam Reid, Sarah Gadon, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Tom Felton, James Norton, Matthew Goode.

Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (2.39:1 aspect ratio) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English), English descriptive audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish); 50GB dual-layer; requires Blu-ray player.

Soundtracks: English and dubbed Spanish, French, Portuguese and Turkish; optional Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish subtitles; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); optional English described video.

Publisher Number:

2292810

2292811

Other Number:

883678454

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

874531

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Belle