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Features: DVD
Editor's Note
This critically acclaimed English film is about a high class prostitute and her ex-con chauffeur who falls in love with her. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Bob Hoskins.
Plot Summary
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences (he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and unsophisticated bigot; she's a beautiful, elegant, and intelligent black woman), George falls in love with her and agrees to help locate one of her old friends, a junkie still working the streets for a dangerously violent pimp.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Letterbox - 1.77 | | Audio:
| Mono - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Audio Commentary: Neil Jordan - Director, Bob Hoskins - Star | | Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Home Vision/Public Media |
| Release Date: 3/13/2001 |
| Running Time: 104 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1986 | | Catalog ID: 1571-D | | UPC: 00715515012027 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes (1986) |  | Bob Hoskins, Winner, Best Actor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...Hoskins relishes the role and his relish is infectious..." 09/01/1986 p.286-7New York Times
"...High style....Vividly realized characters behaving in unexpected ways..." 06/13/1986 p.C23 Los Angeles Times
"...Rueful and funny; brutal, beautiful and lushly romantic, MONA LISA finds gallantry and real heroism among the most unlikely surroundings..." 06/13/1986 p.C1 |
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