| | | "Winner of 11 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture, 1997."
Features: DVD, Dolby, Digital Audio, English
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet light up the screen as Jack and Rose, the young lovers who find one another on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a race for survival.
"A heart-tugging potboiler that is at once poetic, tragic and cold as steel." Andy Jones, TNT RoughCut
"A huge, thrilling three-and-a-quarter-hour experience that unerringly lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world." Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
"...a film that sweeps us away into a world of spectacle, beauty and excitement." Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"The last hour of Titanic is huge and staggering..." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"...floods you with elemental passion in a way that invites comparison with the original movie spectacles of D.W. Griffith." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
Featuring spectacular special effects set amidst the backdrop of one of the most tragic events of the 20th Century, James Cameron's award-winning TITANIC stands as one of the greatest Hollywood spectaculars of all time. Beginning with an undersea expedition in the 1990s, in which scuba divers are searching the sunken ship for lost relics, a painting of young Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is found. This triggers a flashback to the young woman's story as it happened on the doomed Titanic. Rose is a daughter of privilege on her way to be married to an arrogant but wealthy young man (Billy Zane). Despairing, Rose finds herself falling in love with Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), a carefree and poor young artist who is also aboard. When the great ship strikes an iceberg and begins to sink, Rose and Jack have only each other as their world falls apart around them.Director James Cameron spared no expense in bringing his simple yet powerful love story to life, building a 90% scale model of the ship, fussing over the tiniest details, and ultimately spending some $200 million dollars. A worldwide smash, TITANIC received fourteen Academy Award nominations and 11 wins, including Best Picture. Despite all the lavish sets and special effects, the film would be nothing without the emotional core provided by stars Winslet and DiCaprio, who give star making performances as the tragic young lovers.
| Features | Audio: English DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound, DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 11/20/2007 |
| Running Time: 194 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 13134 | | UPC: 00097361313443 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1998) | | | Golden Globe, James Cameron, Best Director - Motion Picture | | | Golden Globe, Titanic, Best Motion Picture - Drama | | | Golden Globe, James Horner, Best Original Score - Motion Picture | | | Golden Globe, James Horner, Will Jennings, Best Original Song - Motion Picture | | | Oscar, James Cameron, Jon Landau, Best Picture | | | Oscar, James Cameron, Best Director | | | Oscar, Peter Lamont, Michael Ford, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration | | | Oscar, Russell Carpenter, Best Cinematography | | | Oscar, Deborah Lynn Scott, Best Costume Design | | | Oscar, Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing | | | Oscar, Robert Legato, et. al., Best Effects, Visual Effects | | | Oscar, Conrad Buff, IV, et. al., Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, James Horner, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score | | | Oscar, James Horner, Will Jennings, Best Music, Original Song | | | Oscar, Gary Rydstrom, et. al., Best Sound |
| Memorable Quotes| "I'm the king of the world!" Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...Kate Winslet creates one of the most all-around attractive characters in years in an epic that won 11 Oscars..." -- 4 out of 4 stars 04/03/1998 p.5EEntertainment Weekly
"...[Cameron] touches the deepest levels of popular movie-making..." -- Rating: A 03/27/1998 p.49 New York Times
"...Magnificent....A huge, thrilling three-and-a-quarter-hour experience that unerringly lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world..." 12/19/1997 p.E1 Box Office
"...Sumptuous, stunningly believable sets and visual effects....It is an intimate epic with a moving and resonant love story at its core..." -- 5 out of 5 stars 01/01/1998 p.45 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding..." 12/19/1997 p.37 Rolling Stone
Ranked #14 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "TITANIC is simply the greatest romantic epic since GONE WITH THE WIND..." 12/01/2005 p.98 ReelViews 10 of 10
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface...While Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron's films, fans of more frantic pictures like Aliens and The Abyss will not be disappointed. Titanic has all of the thrills and intensity that movie-goers have come to expect from the director. A dazzling mix of style and substance, of the sublime and the spectacular, Titanic represents Cameron's most accomplished work to date. It's important not to let the running time hold you back -- these three-plus hour pass very quickly. Although this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
James Cameron's 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding. If its story stays well within the traditional formulas for such pictures, well, you don't choose the most expensive film ever made as your opportunity to reinvent the wheel...We know before the movie begins that certain things must happen. We must see the Titanic sail and sink, and be convinced we are looking at a real ship. There must be a human story--probably a romance--involving a few of the passengers. There must be vignettes involving some of the rest and a subplot involving the arrogance and pride of the ship's builders--and perhaps also their courage and dignity. And there must be a reenactment of the ship's terrible death throes; it took two and a half hours to sink, so that everyone aboard had time to know what was happening, and to consider their actions...Movies like this are not merely difficult to make at all, but almost impossible to make well. The technical difficulties are so daunting that it's a wonder when the filmmakers are also able to bring the drama and history into proportion. I found myself convinced by both the story and the saga. - Roger Ebert
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