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The Academy Award-winner for best original screenplay, Gosford Park is a whodunit as only director Robert Altman could do it. As a hunting party gathers a the country estate, no one is aware that before the weekend is over, someone will be murdered--twice! The police are baffled but the all-seeing, all-hearing staff know that almost everyone had a motive. This critically-acclaimed murder mystery features a who's who of celebrated actors. With a cast of characters--all with something to hide, it'll keep you guessing right to the surprising end. Gosford Park proves murder can be such an inconvenience.
"A masterpiece! A richly entertaining murder mystery!" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"Five stars don't do it justice." Neil Smith, BBC News
"Ranks among Robert Altman's best work ever." Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
"Two big thumbs up." Ebert & Roeper
"Opulently designed, meticulously directed, cleverly writen and wittily acted by a cast as polished as the floors." Rex Reed, New York Observer
Editor's Note
In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with a midpoint shift to an Agatha Christie whodunit. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend shooting party at the estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas). Mary (Kelly Macdonald), a fresh-faced, naïve new maid accompanies the sniping Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), and is shown the ropes by the house's worldly head housemaid, Elsie (Emily Watson). While the masters engage in various financial and sexual intrigues upstairs, the world downstairs has its own curiosities--namely, the predatory valet to a Hollywood producer, Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe), and the mysterious, cagey servant, Robert Parks (Clive Owen). Mary soon discovers that the image of servants living vicariously through their masters is a false one, and that the upstairs-downstairs worlds are often shockingly interwoven. With GOSFORD PARK, Altman delivers a fascinating, blackly comic look at the treacherous yet poignant gamesmanship between the classes.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Subtitles: Spanish | | Deleted Scenes Commentary With Director Robert Altman, Production Designer Stephen Altman And Producer David Levy | | Cast And Filmmaker Filmographies | | Featurette: "The Authenticity Of Gosford Park" | | Featurette: "Cast And Filmmaker Q&A Session" | | Screenwriter's Commentary With Julian Fellowes | | Featurette: "The Making Of Gosford Park" |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (MCA) |
| Release Date: 1/11/2005 |
| Running Time: 137 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 22281 | | UPC: 00025192228124 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2002) |  | Julian Fellowes, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen | | | Helen Mirren, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | | | Maggie Smith, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | | | Robert Altman, Nominee, Best Director | | | Robert Altman, et al., Nominee, Best Picture | |
Golden Globe (2002) | | Robert Altman, Winner, Best Director | | | Helen Mirren, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture | | | Maggie Smith, Nominee, Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture | | | Julian Fellowes, Nominee, Best Screenplay--Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Effective ensemble movies depend on choosing the perfect actors, and GOSFORD PARK has perhaps the most dazzling cast that Altman has ever assembled..." 12/01/2001 p.46-8New York Times
"...What makes the achievement of GOSFORD PARK all the more remarkable is that Mr. Altman is 76....The energy that crackles from the screen suggests the clear-sighted joie de vivre of an artist still deeply engaged in the world..." 12/26/2001 p.E3 USA Today
"...This comedy of manners is so much fun that it wouldn't even need the mystery to be one of the year's top entertainments..." 12/26/2001 p.3D Box Office
"...Elegant....Nuanced and intricate....The cast, of course, delivers the good, with outstanding performances coming from Emily Watson and Helen Mirren..." 01/01/2002 p.57 Rolling Stone
"...GOSFORD PARK abounds in scenes to savor. It's a feast, and one of Altman's best..." 01/17/2002 p.56 Entertainment Weekly
"...Elegantly topsy-turvy....It's full of moments to savor....Altman has a spry mastery that's inspiring. The acting, down to the smallest role, is superb..." 01/18/2002 p.52-3 Total Film
"...A supple slice of entertainment, with some classy acting contributions..." 03/01/2002 p.93 Variety
"...Taking advantage of a splendid cast, a sharply focused script and the fresh English setting, GOSFORD park emerges as one of the most satisfying of Robert Altman's numerous ensemble pictures..." 11/12/2001 p.27-33 Sight and Sound
"...A revelation....This is a quintessentially British movie, but one which only an outsider with Altman's energy could have made..." 02/01/2002 p.45-6 Chicago Sun-Times
"...The screenplay is masterful in introducing all the characters and gradually making it clear who they are, what they've done, and what it means....One of the best films of 2001..." 05/05/2002 p.5 The New York Times 9 of 10
...a melt-in-your-mouth hunk of 12-layer English spice cake that will appeal to anyone who feels a nostalgic pang for the long-running British television series "Upstairs Downstairs" or for the cozy whodunits of Agatha Christie... Anglophiles will gleefully wallow in the baronial splendor of the setting and in the movie's canny eye for period detail, including everything from dinner place settings to vintage cars to the rituals of the shoot. - Stephen Holden
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