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US Mall 1 - Theory of Flight
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $2.30
Your Save: $ 17.68 ( 88% )
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones, Holly Aird, Ray Stevenson
Directed By: Paul Greengrass
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780626027
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0780626028
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: 1999-05-25
Running Time: 101
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Summary: You are the wind beneath my wings...
Comment: Richard (Kenneth Branagh), a frustrated painter and would-be airplane builder, has a mid-life crisis and ends up afoul of the law. He's sentenced to community service and assigned to be a companion to Jane (Helen Bonham Carter), who is suffering with the end stages of ALS. She's sarcastic and angry and he's depressed, but eventually their frienship grows; then she asks him for a favor that only he can do.
This remarkably uplifting true story is funny and tragic and just plain wonderful. Carter is well-cast as the caustic young woman who wants to experience physical love just once before she dies. Branagh is tender and gentle as the man who dreams of flying. The ending is never in doubt, but the journey is engaging and will have you reaching for your tissues. Beautifully filmed in London and Wales.
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Summary: Interesting
Comment: This is a very unique take on a love story. The box labels it a romantic comedy but that's because there is no proper category for this film. It is at times: romantic, awkward, embarrassing, funny, sad etc. It is well worth your time. I found myself pleasantly surprised. At the beginning, it is a little hard to understand her but that's just because you have to adjust your listening skills to her cadence. I will definitely see it again. It is a very unusual movie. Not typical. So, if you want something different from your standard blockbuster video movies, watch this.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies
Comment: I can't believe this movie isn't even on DVD yet. It is a classic. With two of Britain's greatest actors. Wonderfully human, funny and intelligent.
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Summary: Theory doesn't take flight
Comment: "Theory of Flight" opens with Helena Bonham Carter,crippled in bed with ALS,watching porn. She wants to lose virginity before she dies. Enter Kenneth Branagh (so to speak),her then-real life boyfriend,as a failed aviator,who also happens to be saddled with a boring fiancee. Together,they collaborate on him "taking flight" and her losing her virginity.
While Jane (Helena Bonham Carter) is treated in a condescending way&assumed she's asexual because she's disabled,her relationship with Kenneth Branagh's character comes across as forced and contrived. Their "humor" as a couple isn't funny. Jane doesn't "suffer beautifully" like other movie heroines,but she doesn't come across as sympathetic either. She thinks her life will be meaningless if she dies a virgin.
The movie's few strengths are Branagh as a generally brittle,unsympathetic character who gradually warms to Jane (Carter was his girlfriend at the time) and the good try at direction by Paul Greengrass. One wonders if the movie is a vanity project with Branagh just "happening" to cast his real-life girlfriend as a woman who wants to be deflowered before she is deceased. As for Paul Greengrass,he has gone onto bigger and better things than this. After all,he directed "United 93" and "A Mighty Heart."
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Summary: A movie not a dcoumentary
Comment: This movie was one of the most beautiful movies I have seen in a while, and I watch alot of movies. It is not a deptiction of real life but what real life can be. I feel sory for the person who did not enjoy it because it did not show acurately the life of a person with ALS. This is a movie that can give someone with ALS wings. I got this idea by reading the coments from the widow of a someone who watched the movie with her late husband who had ALS and died from it. I believe her opinion is the only one that counts. But remember, this is a movie not a documentary. If you are going to pick on it for lack of acuracy than have at for a mountain of other movies who share its lack of acuracy, why stop with this one. There are some movies that show the beauty and the power of friendship, it transends the necsesity for real life acuracy.
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Summary: You are the wind beneath my wings...
Comment: Richard (Kenneth Branagh), a frustrated painter and would-be airplane builder, has a mid-life crisis and ends up afoul of the law. He's sentenced to community service and assigned to be a companion to Jane (Helen Bonham Carter), who is suffering with the end stages of ALS. She's sarcastic and angry and he's depressed, but eventually their frienship grows; then she asks him for a favor that only he can do.
This remarkably uplifting true story is funny and tragic and just plain wonderful. Carter is well-cast as the caustic young woman who wants to experience physical love just once before she dies. Branagh is tender and gentle as the man who dreams of flying. The ending is never in doubt, but the journey is engaging and will have you reaching for your tissues. Beautifully filmed in London and Wales.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Interesting
Comment: This is a very unique take on a love story. The box labels it a romantic comedy but that's because there is no proper category for this film. It is at times: romantic, awkward, embarrassing, funny, sad etc. It is well worth your time. I found myself pleasantly surprised. At the beginning, it is a little hard to understand her but that's just because you have to adjust your listening skills to her cadence. I will definitely see it again. It is a very unusual movie. Not typical. So, if you want something different from your standard blockbuster video movies, watch this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of my favorite movies
Comment: I can't believe this movie isn't even on DVD yet. It is a classic. With two of Britain's greatest actors. Wonderfully human, funny and intelligent.
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Summary: Theory doesn't take flight
Comment: "Theory of Flight" opens with Helena Bonham Carter,crippled in bed with ALS,watching porn. She wants to lose virginity before she dies. Enter Kenneth Branagh (so to speak),her then-real life boyfriend,as a failed aviator,who also happens to be saddled with a boring fiancee. Together,they collaborate on him "taking flight" and her losing her virginity.
While Jane (Helena Bonham Carter) is treated in a condescending way&assumed she's asexual because she's disabled,her relationship with Kenneth Branagh's character comes across as forced and contrived. Their "humor" as a couple isn't funny. Jane doesn't "suffer beautifully" like other movie heroines,but she doesn't come across as sympathetic either. She thinks her life will be meaningless if she dies a virgin.
The movie's few strengths are Branagh as a generally brittle,unsympathetic character who gradually warms to Jane (Carter was his girlfriend at the time) and the good try at direction by Paul Greengrass. One wonders if the movie is a vanity project with Branagh just "happening" to cast his real-life girlfriend as a woman who wants to be deflowered before she is deceased. As for Paul Greengrass,he has gone onto bigger and better things than this. After all,he directed "United 93" and "A Mighty Heart."
Customer Rating:
Summary: A movie not a dcoumentary
Comment: This movie was one of the most beautiful movies I have seen in a while, and I watch alot of movies. It is not a deptiction of real life but what real life can be. I feel sory for the person who did not enjoy it because it did not show acurately the life of a person with ALS. This is a movie that can give someone with ALS wings. I got this idea by reading the coments from the widow of a someone who watched the movie with her late husband who had ALS and died from it. I believe her opinion is the only one that counts. But remember, this is a movie not a documentary. If you are going to pick on it for lack of acuracy than have at for a mountain of other movies who share its lack of acuracy, why stop with this one. There are some movies that show the beauty and the power of friendship, it transends the necsesity for real life acuracy.
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