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The Children Act / FilmNation Entertainment and BBC Films present a Duncan Kenworthy production ; directed by Richard Eyre ; produced by Duncan Kenworthy ; screenplay by Ian McEwan.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 037 791
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- McEwan, Ian--Film adaptations.
- McEwan, Ian.
- Great Britain. Children Act 1989--Drama.
- Great Britain.
- Women judges--Drama.
- Women judges.
- Blood--Transfusion--Drama.
- Blood.
- Health--Religious aspects--Jehovah's witness--Drama.
- Health.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Doctrines--Drama.
- Jehovah's Witnesses.
- DVDs.
- Children Act 1989 (Great Britain).
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Doctrines.
- Blood--Transfusion.
- Legal drama.
- Genre:
- Historical films.
- Fiction films.
- Legal films.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Legal films
- Historical films
- Film adaptations
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Legal stories.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen 16x9 (1.98:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 5.1
- videodisc
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
- Participant:
- Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin, Jason Watkins, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Anthony Calf, Rosie Cavaliero, Eileen Walsh, Nicholas Jones, Rupert Vansittart.
- Credits:
- Original music by Stephen Warbeck; editor, Dan Farrell; director of photography, Andrew Dunn.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2017.
- Wide screen.
- Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
- Special features: commentary with the director, writer and producer.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 9786317504127
- 6317504121
- OCLC:
- 1055211197
- Publisher Number:
- 031398293972 80
- 00031398293972 gtin-14
- 55070 Lionsgate
- Online:
- Click here to view cover art
- View cover art
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