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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780780650442 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780650441 Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: TRNDN7840D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 17, 2005 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 08/29/2006 Run time: 125 minutes Amazon.com: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2004, The Sea Inside is a life-affirming film about a man who wishes to die. That may seem like a massive contradiction, but in the hands of director Alejandro Amenábar (Open Your Eyes, The Others) and actor Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls), this fact-based Spanish drama concerns the final days of Ramón Sampedro, the quadriplegic poet who waged a controversial campaign for his right to die. He was denied this right for 30 years, and ultimately arranged for his own assisted suicide, but this remarkable film--and Bardem's keenly intelligent performance--examines the hotly-debated issue of assisted suicide with admirable depth and humanity, just as Sampedro did until his death in 1998. For Sampedro, death was preferable to severe paralysis (he even refused to use a wheelchair), but the film does not suggest a "disposable" attitude toward disability. Instead, it's a thoughtful meditation on life and love as gifts to be cherished, and a challenging drama that begs each viewer to examine their own personal beliefs about what makes life worth living. You may not agree with Sampedro and his ultimate denial of life, but The Sea Inside will urge you to ponder how you would react under similar circumstances, and that makes it a profoundly meaningful film. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Honest, touching, and nicely actedThis true story is retold on the screen with unflinching honesty, without being pat or glib, and is also touching in its depiction of a quadriplegic man and his extended family. No wonder Javier Bardem is one of the hottest actors around now; this and his other recent films show his remarkable range. The other cast members are just as strong, showing different reactions to his wish to die with dignity and the ensuing legal battle. He finds his own solution in the end and leaves the viewers with ... Read More Rating: - Simply the best...This is a true story of a 55 year old Spanish man who is a bedridden quadriplegic. Ramon Sampedro, the former ship mechanic, was paralyzed from the neck down after a swimming mishap. After being bedridden for more than 30 years, he is determined to end his life and "die with dignity." His brother, sister-in-law, nephew and father care for him. Ramon struggles in being a burden and being helpless while his family copes with the daily grind of caring for him and dealing with his death wish. Read More Rating:  - Interesting, and hard to rate.The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar, 2004) When you know how the story ends, and you still can't believe the director is going to end up there, that's a sign of one of two things-- either the director has the message chip on his shoulder in a big way, or the director is very, very good at what he does. I suspect, where The Sea Inside is concerned, there's some of both going on here. Amenabar (The Others) gives us the (true) story of Ramon Sampedro (Javier Bardem, Spain's greatest ... Read More Rating: - BeautifulThis movie will make even the best of cinamatographers take note. The scenery, the beautiful characters...well played I say, well played. The story itself is reason to watch, and then ponder your own life... Rating: - great moviethis is a fantastic movie, you don't even notice you are reading subtitles. i recomend it to anyone, even those who think they don't like foreign films. :) |
