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Features: DVD
Emma: Dazzling Gwenyth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, The Royal Tenenbaums) shines as Emma - a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends. Funny thing is...she's not very good at it! So when Emma tries to find a man for Harriet (Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense, About a Boy), she makes a hilariously tangled mess of everyone's lives. You'll enjoy all the comic confusion...until Emma herself falls in love, finally freeing everyone from her outrageously misguided attempts at matchmaking!Shakespeare in Love: Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards - including Best Picture - this witty, sexy smash features Oscar-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, and Ben Affleck! When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production!
"[Emma] Paltrow is delightful..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"[Shakespeare] The year's best and most original comedy!" New York Newsday
"[Emma] Devilishy funny!" Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Gwyneth Paltrow shines in this pair of costume comedies: EMMA and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. See individual titles for synopsis information.
| Features | [Both] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Both] Interactive Menus | | [Both] Original Theatrical Trailer | | [Both] Scene Selection | | [Shakespeare] 1998 Academy Award Winning Costumes | | [Shakespeare] Audio Commentary With Cast & Crew | | [Shakespeare] Deleted Scenes | | [Shakespeare] Featurette: Shakespeare In Love & On Film | | [Shakespeare] John Madden Audio Commentary Track | | [Shakespeare] Shakespeare Facts | | [Shakespeare] Television Spots |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 9/11/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | UPC: 00786936744088 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen/Widescreen 2.35:1/1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1999) | | | Golden Globe, Shakespeare in Love, [Shakespeare] Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | | | Golden Globe, Gwyneth Paltrow, [Shakespeare] Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical | | | Golden Globe, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, [Shakespeare] Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | | | Oscar, Gwyneth Paltrow, [Shakespeare] Best Actress in a Leading Role | | | Oscar, Judi Dench, [Shakespeare] Best Actress in a Supporting Role | | | Oscar, Martin Childs, Jill Quertier, [Shakespeare] Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | | | Oscar, Sandy Powell, [Shakespeare] Best Costume Design | | | Oscar, Stephen Warbeck, [Shakespeare] Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score | | | Oscar, David Parfitt, et. al., [Shakespeare] Best Picture | | | Oscar, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, [Shakespeare] Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | |
Winner (1997) | | | Oscar, Rachel Portman, [Emma] Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score | |
Nominee (1997) | | | Oscar, Ruth Myers, [Emma] Best Costume Design |
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| | Professional Reviews | ReelViews 8 of 10
[Emma] It's the romantic buried inside each of us that responds to movies like Emma. Sure, the film, like the Jane Austen novel upon which it is based, is laced with wit and sophistication. And, although it contains enough social commentary and character development to lift it well above the plane of genre romances, Emma is still primarily about lovers finding each other during a simpler age...Emma is likely to open eyes to the talent of its leading lady, Gwyneth Paltrow, who gives face, form, and expression to Emma. Paltrow, who was excellent in 1993's Flesh and Bone (before moving on to films like Seven and The Pallbearer), displays the essential characteristic of an actress wishing to play a Jane Austen heroine -- the ability to shift quickly and effectively from comedy to drama. She can cry, look wistful, and deliver a biting line with equal believability...Paltrow is supported by a fine cast. Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding), who also appeared with her in The Pallbearer, makes an effectively frumpy Harriet Smith. Jeremy Northam, who harassed Sandra Bullock in The Net, is an excellent choice for the dashing Knightley. Alan Cumming is suitably smarmy as Reverend Elton...Sophie Thompson, in her second Austen film (she also appeared in Persuasion), plays the irritating Miss Bates a little too perfectly. - James Berardinelli
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