Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

W.E. / the Weinstein Company presents, in association with Semtex Films ; directed by Madonna ; written by Madonna & Alek Keshishian ; produced by Madonna, Kris Thykier.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment ; Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Winthrop's research reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for some domestic violence, nudity and language.

Subjects:

Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 -- Drama.

Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986 -- Drama.

Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Genre:

Biographical films.

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Feature films.