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Title: The Great Gatsby
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Actors: Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson
Director: Jack Clayton
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 2 hours and 15 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Subtitle Language: Arabic, Croatian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovene, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Serbian, Danish, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish
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Robert Redford and Mia Farrow star in this opulent story of the idle rich in the 1920s and one man's devotion to a flirtatious waif. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

AMAZON REVIEW
Perhaps no movie could capture F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby in its entirety, but this adaptation, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, is certainly a handsome try, putting costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby.

The problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the jazz age tunes, ending up with a Classics Illustrated version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly intriguing in the film, Mia Farrow's pallid performance as Daisy leaves you wondering why Gatsby, or anyone else, should care so much about his grand passion. The effective supporting cast includes Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, and Scott Wilson and Karen Black as the low-rent couple whose destinies cross the sun-drenched protagonists. (That's future star Patsy Kensit as Daisy's little daughter.) The film won two Oscars--not surprisingly, for costumes and musical score. --Robert Horton

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