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Felicia's Journey 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Lions Gate Catalog: DVD Release date: 2001-02-20 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1999 Running time in minutes: 116 DVD aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1999 Ean: 9780784014981 Book Isbn: 0784014981 Upc: 012236101345  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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Like Hitchcock, Atom Egoyan envisions family life as a potential hotbed of literal or figurative violence and incest. In Felicia's Journey, Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's shattering novel, one dreads to imagine what TV-cook mom (Arsinée Khanjian) did to so damage her pudgy son that grown- up Hilditch (Bob Hoskins) still prepares meals in perfect unison with faded videotapes of her show--and, as we eventually discover, often takes more sinister trips down Memory Lane. Distant kin to Psycho's Tony Perkins, Hoskins's troll is so obsessive, so traumatized, his every short-armed, fat-handed gesture and sing-song utterance is precisely calculated to keep reality safely buried. Egoyan's movies often seem located underwater, in some surreal dreamscape where one's breath is perpetually suspended while a slow horror seeps ever deeper under the skin. Helpless, transfixed, one watches as his characters drive inexorably toward mined intersections where lives and souls may be lost or redeemed. When Hilditch's path crosses, diverges from, and finally coincides with that of young, pregnant Felicia (Elaine Cassidy)--an Irish innocent searching for her errant boyfriend--it leads to terrible epiphany for these fellow travelers. Trouble is, creepy Hilditch and too-naive Felicia come up a bit short in the psychological complexity department, so by film's end, revelatory payoffs are mostly penny ante. Felica's Journey tours familiar Egoyan territory--an industrialized wasteland full of hungry hearts--but this latest fairy tale (think perverse variations on Hansel and Gretel) isn't in the same league with such "family values" masterpieces as Exotica or The Sweet Hereafter. --Kathleen Murphy |
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 Written on October 17, 2001 Summary: Egoyan in his top form... The Sweet Hereafter is Egoyan's best movie so far. There's no doubt about it. However it's unfair for some people trying to compare Felicia's Journey with the Sweet Hereafter as they involve different genres, stories, protagonists and places. Every Egoyan's filmmaking is a masterpiece and Felicia's Journey is no exception. There's not any other director who can make a film which is scary as hell as Felicia's Journey while the audience can't even see a drop of blood within the 116-min runtime. It's also a luxury sitting through the film when you see the unique way Egoyan moves the camera. Mychael Danna's music is superb as usual though a little bit more experimental than in pervious works. FJ is another Egoyan's masterpiece and I award it 5+ stars. Written on September 5, 2001 Summary: Very good story As a real Egoyan fan it was hard to wait for his next one: and there it was, Felicia's Journey, a truly good story located in a grey and dusky ambience! Bob Hoskin as kinky Hilditch really shows his talent as an old saviour of fallen angels as he offers help to poor stranded Felicia, cheated by her boyfriend who left her with nothing more than the unborn child. Just watching Hoskin in his old car (the film is residing in the 60ies) will send you chills down your spine because you are expecting something great to happen. And be sure, it will happen in the end. Believe me this film won't disappoint you - it will show you all facets of subtle psychological varieties and in the end you will be glad that it was only a movie or a DVD tape, because Felicia's journey is a hard one. Written on June 30, 2001 Summary: A not so sweet hereafter Atom Egoyan followed up his masterpiece film "The Sweet Hereafter," with this strange movie about an unusual serial killer. Bob Hoskins gives a great performance as the man whose hobbies are gormet cooking and killing young girls. But he doesn't murder them outright, as young Felica discovers. She's come to his town seeking out the boyfriend who left her. With nowehere to go, she seemingly lucks out when Hoskins offers to allow her to stay at his large house. All of this sounds more intriguing than it ends up being on the screen. Though well acted, the movie moves slowly and ultimately just doesn't amount to all that much. Egoyan's movies are always literate, but this one is so to the point that you start to lose interest. There are no great moving moments like in "The Sweet Hereafter." Written on May 29, 2001 Summary: IS ALL OF THIS TAMPERING REALLY NECESSARY...? To start with, I have to say that if you haven't seen this film, PLEASE read William Trevor's novel first. You must experience Trevor's luminous writing before enduring what Atom Egoyan has done to it. That being said, there are a lot of good things about this film. The cast is superb -- Elaine Cassidy is perfect as Felicia, and a better choice than Bob Hoskins as Mr. Hilditch I can't imagine. Both of them turn in memorable performances here. The thing that makes it impossible for me to give this film a higher recommendation is Egoyan's inexplicable urge to add elements to Trevor's story. Without writing a 'spoiler' review, I'll just mention that the entire 'videotape' take on Hilditch's 'memory lane', as well as the cooking videos he watches are products of Egoyan's imagination -- they were not present in the novel, and it certainly didn't lack for their non-existence. It annoys me that Egoyan couldn't leave well enough alone -- and it makes me wonder if he succumbs to this temptation with every film he's done. I'm about to read Russell Banks' novel 'The sweet hereafter' to find out... Written on January 30, 2001 Summary: How do we deal with loss? Egoyan's works deal with how we, as humans, deal with the loss of something sacred. In "Exotica", how does on deal with the death of a child, innocence, or a lover? In "Hereafter", we see the same theme explored in another interesting manner. In "Journey", we see it again. In order to appreciate the subtleties for Egoyan's works, you have to appreciate their thematic elements, not to mention his methods of storytelling, as well as his wonderful cinematic eye. "Journey" is a character study in madness, as well as loss. Loss of home, loss of love, loss of innocence. How does one deal with these things? Some must grow up, other must murder. Wonderful acting all around. I highly recommend this film to Egoyan fans and true lovers of extraordinary film. Put your thinking cap on. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2001-02-20 | 2003-07-22 | 1998-05-27 | 2006-02-28 | 1999-11-16 | 2005-11-01 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1999 | 2002 | 1997-11-21 | 2005 | 1995-03-03 | 2001 |
| Running time in minutes | 116 | 115 | 112 | 107 | 103 | 94 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 2.35:1 | 1.78:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.35:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.33:1 |
| Audience Rating | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | Unrated | R (Restricted) | Unrated |
| Picture format | - | - | Anamorphic Widescreen | - | Letterbox | - |
| Format | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 1 | 1 |
| DVD layers | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| DVD sides | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Ean | 9780784014981 | 0786936221008 | 9780780622258 | 0043396138988 | 9786305428107 | 0658769540338 |
| Book Isbn | 0784014981 | - | 0780622251 | - | 6305428107 | - |
| Upc | 012236101345 | 786936221008 | 794043465420 | 043396138988 | 717951003249 | 658769540338 |
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