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Booth Tarkington (novel)
Orson Welles (1942 screenplay)
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13 January 2002 (USA) more
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The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently... more | add synopsis
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'Wc' UK Premiere at Portobello Film Festival
(From IFTN. 1 September 2009, 7:27 AM, PDT)
A&E Defends Ambersons Remake
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 13 December 2001)
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: During George and Lucy's sleigh ride in town, George's lips frequently do not match what he's saying. more
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George Amberson Minafer:
Out of my way!
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Version of Pampered Youth (1925/I) more
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If you are a fan of Orson Welles, I have only one word of advice for you: avoid. This is a truly dire and misguided attempt to 'correct' Welles' masterpiece by including passages from Booth Tarkington's novel to make up for the long lost sequences cut by RKO in the 1940's. What the filmmakers have overlooked, however, is to include modern equivalents for the innovative direction, lighting and great performances that make the original version (even in its forever truncated form) one of the most eminent masterworks in American cinema. Although I will refrain from going into length here about its many shortcomings, the main detraction (even for curiosity's sake) is the (mis)casting of the wooden Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as George Amberson Miniver. No match for the wonderful Tim Holt, Rhys-Meyers pouts and whines his way through the film with seemingly no understanding of what the story is about or is trying to convey. Taking the shallowness and pomp of the character too literally, this vanity performance shows no inner life and, as a result, the character arc is practically nil. For those of you who want some idea of what Welles had originally shown that ungrateful audience in Pamona, track down a copy of Peter Bogdanovich's book-length interview with Orson ('This Is Orson Welles') and refer to the appendix which contains stills and script pages that reconstruct the missing scenes. Beware though, it just might make you cry.