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13 January 2002 (USA) morePlot:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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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. moreQuotes:
George Amberson Minafer: [sobbing] You could have stopped it!Fanny Minafer: No Georgie, no one could have stopped you, you were to strong.
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I feel like I have to comment on this movie because of the rather indefensible comments of several reviewers. "The Magnificent Ambersons" is one of the great American tragedies; and its translation to the screen still remains a tragedy. I thought this A&E version was a lovely attempt although as Madeleine Stowe reportedly said before the production aired, they still didn't do it justice. If my understanding is correct, they were working from Orson Welles' original script which he was not allowed to bring to the screen in 1942. The tragedy of this production is that it is never quite as great as that flawed 1942 version, and so the informed viewer is left wondering what it would have been like to see Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Cotten play the final tragic scenes instead of Jennifer Tilly and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. I didn't think either Tilly or Meyers were particularly perfect for the parts; but they were neither as bad as many reviewers make them out to be nor as great as I remember Moorehead and Cotten to have been. So watch both screen versions, combine the two in your head, and you'll have one of the greatest movies never made.