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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   337 votes
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Director:
Anthony Hopkins
Writers:
Anton Chekhov (play)
Julian Mitchell (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
19 April 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
You can live a whole lifetime in a single weekend....
Plot:
Chekovs Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquillity... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Beautiful, but...why? more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anthony Hopkins ... Ieuan Davies
Leslie Phillips ... Professor Alexander Blathwaite
Kate Burton ... Helen Blathwaite
Gawn Grainger ... Dr. Michael Lloyd
Rhian Morgan ... Sian Blathwaite
Menna Trussler ... Gwen
Rhoda Lewis ... Mair Davies
Hugh Lloyd ... Thomas Prosser
Huw Garmon ... Dafydd Edwards

Rhys Ifans ... Griffiths
Susan Ellen Flynn ... Rhianon
Buddug Morgan ... Nesta
Victoria Pugh ... Housemaid
Ioan Meredith ... Quarry Foreman
Jâms Thomas ... Quarryman
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for bloody images of a mining accident, thematic elements and some language.
Runtime:
94 min
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | Spain:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Iceland:12

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Ieuan Davies: Scribble, scribble, scribble... Makes you feel sorry for the paper, doesn't it? more
Movie Connections:
Version of Country Life (1994) more
Soundtrack:
The Maiden's Prayer (La Priere d'une vierge) more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Beautiful, but...why?, 3 January 2001
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Author: Reid-14 from Seattle

An accomplished major film directorial debut for Anthony Hopkins, a beautiful piece of work, accompanied by a wonderful score, also composed by Hopkins. But one must wonder, as with the adaptation of any great work of art, why it was necessary. "Uncle Vanya" has been masterfully translated, it seems superfluous at best to rewrite it. As with Shakespeare, the transposition into a new landscape need not be accomplished through a completely new script. This being said, however, it is always pleasing to see a project so close to a person's heart as this obviously was to Hopkins' come to such beautiful fruition.

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