Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The good wife / Atlantic Entertainment Group ; a Laughing Kookaburra Production ; Metro Goldwyn Mayer in association with the Nolin Company ; original screenplay by Peter Kenna ; production executive, Michael Nolin ; produced by Jan Sharp ; directed by Ken Cameron. The claim / United Artists Films present in association with Pathé Pictures, the Arts Council of England, Le Studio Canal+, BBC Films and Alliance Atlantis ; a Revolution Films/DB Entertainment and Grosvenor Park production ; produced by Andrew Eaton ; screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce ; directed by Michael Winterbottom.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

1 videodisc (219 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The good wife (97 min.) : A bored young wife in rural, depression-era Australia, becomes involved with the town's new bartender.

The claim (120 min.) : A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

Feature films.

Married people -- Australia -- Drama.

Adultery -- Drama.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.

Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia -- Drama.

Country life -- Australia -- Drama.

California -- History -- 19th century -- Drama.

Genre:

Western films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Winterbottom, Michael.

Cottrell Boyce, Frank.

Bentley, Wes, 1978-

Jovovich, Milla.

Kinski, Nastassja, 1960-

Mullan, Peter.

Polley, Sarah.

Kenna, Peter, 1930-1987

Cameron, Ken, 1946-

Ward, Rachel, 1957-

Brown, Bryan, 1955-

Neill, Sam.

Vidler, Steven, 1960-

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Mayor of Casterbridge.

Atlantic Entertainment Group.

Laughing Kookaburra (Firm)

United Artists (Firm)

Arts Council of England.

BBC Films.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

TGG Direct (Firm)

Other Title:

Claim (Motion picture)

Notes:

DVD release of the 2000 motion picture (The claim) and the 1987 motion picture (The good wife).

The claim is inspired by: The mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

The good wife: Director of photography, James Bartle ; editor, John Scott ; music, Cameron Allan.

The claim: Director of photography, Alwin Kuchler ; editor, Trevor Waite ; music, Michael Nyman ; costume designer, Joanne Hanson ; production designers, Mark Tildesley and Ken Rempel.

The good wife: Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Steven Vidler.

The claim: Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Mullan, Sarah Polley.

DVD, Dolby Pro Logic II stereo, region 1, NTSC.

In English.

Contents:

The good wife -- The claim.

Publisher Number:

80110

Other Number:

896150175

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

912978

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Good wif