UK Mall 1 - The Power of One [1992]

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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Morgan Freeman, John Gielgud, Tracy Brooks Swope, Brendan Deary
Directed By: John G Avildsen

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014781241120
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1993-10-04
Running Time: 122
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1992-03-27

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Summary: The best
Comment: I have had this movie on Video for ages and have wanted the DVD, unfortunatly my only option was to buy the US version, which I have now done. This movie is one of my must sees, a very moving film, which all my friends hadnt seen before and have loved. As to the previous reviews if the book is even better, I will go and buy. This is a must for your DVD collection.

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Summary: Power Of One
Comment: If seeing the film before the book, you will be very moved by it as I was... I first saw it when I was a young teenager and it made quite an impression upon me. However, as another reviewer said, the book is an absolutely incredible read so maybe best to read it first and be a little disappointed with the film when you watch it afterwards.

As for the film soundtrack - it is a rich tapestry of African vocals... definitely one to buy if you're into World music or OSTs, or even if you're not!

If you want a truthly rendered epic, then you must see "Nowhere in Africa"... you won't be disappointed!

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Summary: great novel, bad movie
Comment: After recently having read - no, make that "devoured" - the beautifully written novel by Bryce Courtenay, I was left very eager to discover how on earth they had accomplished the daunting task of making it into a motion picture. After a long search, I finally was able to get my hands on a copy of this film, and ehm, found it to be a complete and utter abomination. Probably with the best of intentions, but this movie is, aside from the criticism against Apartheid, well, just laughable. When compared to the novel that is. Names have been changed (and sometimes even switched with other characters!), important parts of the plot and some important people are completely left out, leaving the viewer with absolutely no reason as to why things happen as they do, the raw elements that make the story so powerful are smoothed or wiped out to such an extent that it completely caricaturizes most, if not all, of the situations P.K. is being put in, leaving him and the rest of the cast without a personality (things just seem to happen at random, without any reason to people we never really get to know throughout the movie, whereas in the novel you can almost feel the characters, breathe the atmosphere, and everything seems to intertwine perfectly). Lots of stuff happens, but we don't know why. And lots of stuff does not happen or get explained, because - and I can only guess here - it was deemed to sensitive to talk about circumcision, Jews, catholic fanaticism and gross child abuse and/or neglect by grown-ups. Do yourself a big favour: please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, do not watch this movie and read the novel instead.

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Summary: Just incredible
Comment: I am in Year 11 doing GCSE RS full course, and my RS teacher recently showed us this film. It was amazing- the story of a white English boy in South Africa having to deal with great hardships from a very young age- including both his parents dying and suffering racial abuse from both black South Africans and the white Afrikaaners. We follow PK from the time of his birth until the age of 18, and during that time the ordeals he has to go through are almost unimaginable, but these things really happened in South Africa and it raises awareness and empathy by showing us these things uncensored. This film is the most horrible, beautiful and incredible film I have ever seen.

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Summary: review of "The PowerOf One"
Comment: A masterpeice. If you havent got this DVD then your DVD collection is incomplete. An epic film of struggle and hardship during the apartheid in the 1930's in south africa.