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| Under The Greenwood Tree | 
 enlarge | Director: Nick Laughland
Actor: Sean Arnold
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3196
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 94 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138600020
ASIN: B000C05Y22
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Really Enjoyable January 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This really tasteful adptation was full of all thats good about Period Drama, or any entertainment come to that. A good and amusing storyline. A cast of well selected actors and actresses. A well presented setting. A well rounded family entertainment.
 There are better Productions out there to Watch and Enjoy, May 30, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
The production was not at all enjoyable.
I purchased this DVD as Keeley Hawes was in it. I have enjoyed her in Our Mutual Friend and Wives and Daughters. Keeley does a fine job.
However this production lacks a good story line with character development.
I am all for light hearted productions but this one just did not do it for me.
There are far more better BBC Productions out there to watch and enjoy
Great, warm and gentle entertainment May 12, 2007
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
I love adaptations of period dramas, especially those produced this side of the Atlantic. This one was 90odd minutes of enjoyment. Good casting, good acting and great location: not to mention the superb cinematography.
I am just an ordinary person who wishes to be entertained. I am not a scholarly egghead who always seem to insist on the filmed adaptation sticking strictly to the book from whence it was born. I have no idea whether or not this film was accurately portrayed or not...does it matter? I get a little tired of reading, usually, screenfulls of critique from clearly well educated, well read individuals and good luck to them. But they are missing the point. These visual productions, mostly intended for social viewing are intended to be entertainment. If one wishes to study literature in depth go to the library! It beggars belief that there often exists a general opinion that a book, sometime hundreds of pages in length can be brought to the screen for a two hour or so depiction with all the associated production difficulties and costs that necessarily go with it. Let us all just be thankful that that book usually provides a skeleton to work on and the rest is left to talented people, in front of and behind the cameras who bring us such pleasure.
This story is one of Thomas Hardy's ,shall we say, 'quieter' novels, but none the worse for that. There is no complex theme to follow, it is just a simple, straightforward love story. And one that we just know is going to turn out fine! It is all very enjoyable.
The only thing that surprised me about this film is how little I know about Jersey C.I. where the filming took place. I had no idea the countryside was so idylic in such a small island. The film 'snow' was a little bit dodgy but who cares.
Charming, light-weight adaptation of Hardy's novel May 1, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I can understand the other reviewer's frustration and usually I am a terrible purist about adaptations of novels; but in this case, I'm afraid, it was necessary. I had not read the novel before seeing this adaptation and I must say that the writers extracted a charming love story from what is actually a very boring novel. Hardy clearly found the love story getting in the way of the point he wanted to make, which was his mourning for the loss of the rural and simple in the name of progress. The quire is doomed to fall before the harmonium, the reaper will fall before the threshing machine. But actually the love story is more interesting to a modern reader.
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A wonderful romantic story May 13, 2006
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
I enjoyed very much the movie. It is by Thomas Hardy but one of his first novels and is much more light than his later books.
It is a story about a young educated lady from a poor family who has to make a choice between three suitors. So indeed the story is about love and money - what else one may wish for a romance. Obvioulsy, the girl will choose in the end the right guy - for who would have not (being of course a red-blooded women) considering the inducement.
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