Rating: NR
Genre:
Fantasy
Release Date: 09/09/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 187 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children, Scary Moments
Distributor/Studio: Rhi
Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author
Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Gulliver (
Ted Danson) returns to his home. His faithful wife (
Mary Steenburgen) is delighted to see him, but also troubled, for in Gulliver's absence the conniving Dr. Bates (
James Fox) has taken over Gulliver's home and practice and is also trying to force Gulliver's wife to marry him. During his recovery, Gulliver raves and acts out his fantastic adventures at sea wherein he encountered the diminutive but contentious Lilliputians, the gigantic Brobdingnag's and their egalitarian society, the Laputas, who live upon a flying island, and the Houyhnhnmland, intelligent talking horses living in a land populated by wild humans. Scenes of his adventures are deftly interspersed with Gulliver's present predicament in which Dr. Bates, wanting Lemuel's wife and son, has placed the traveller in Bedlam, London's famous insane asylum where he awaits a hearing to determine his sanity. Gulliver's young son holds the key to his release. Filmed on location in Portugal and England, this miniseries is set apart by a top-notch cast and exceptional special effects. In addition to the aforementioned actors, the cast includes
Peter O'Toole,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Sir John Gielgud,
Omar Sharif and
Alfre Woodard.
~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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A Star-Studded Fantasy.
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen head a star-studded cast in this retelling of Jonathan Swift's trenchant 1726 political/social satire. A foolish naive doctor named Lemuel Gulliver (Danson) comes to rue the day he ever left England when he is incarcerated as a lunatic when he's being haunted by the recollections of his nine-year trek to get back home which includes his unwelcomed visits to four strange uncharted places including the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Also starring Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter O'Toole, Alfre Woodard, Omar Sharif, Phoebe Nicholls, James Fox, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Sir John Gielgud, and Edward Fox.
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