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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9780790740850 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790740850 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D12411D Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 22, 1999 Running Time: 127 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 27, 1992 Editorial Review: Description: The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named P.K. and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school. Soon orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor von Vollensteen (a.k.a. "Doc"), a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops P.K.'s piano talent and P.K. becomes "assistant gardener" in Doc's cactus garden. It is not long after WWII begins that Doc is placed in prison for failure to register with the English government as a foreigner. P.K. makes frequent visits and meets Geel Piet, an inmate, who teaches him to box. Geel Piet spreads the myth of the Rainmaker, the one who brings peace to all of the tribes. P.K. is cast in the light of this myth. After the war P.K. attends an English private school where he continues to box. He meets a young girl, Maria, with whom he falls in love. Her father, Professor Daniel Marais, is a leader of the Nationalist Party of South Africa. The two fight to teach the natives English as P.K.'s popularity grows via the myth. Maria is killed. P.K. looses focus until he sees the success of his language school among the tribes. He and Guideon Duma continue the work in hopes of building a better future for Africa. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Screenplay very bad adaption of book.This has to be one of the worst adaptions of an excellent book ever made. The story has been turned into junk, i would have given it no stars at all if i could have, although i guess that the cast is worth the star. Rating: - Hokum & BunkumA mish-mash of clashing concepts. The poor-but-from-a-good-family white english-speaking South African boy endures taunts and torture from Nazi Afrikaner schoolmates (wearing swastikas and saluting 'Heil Hitler'), encouraged from the pulpit and lectern by fascist Afikaner schoolmasters and preachers. He endures, befriends a (jewish?) music professor exile from Germany who is gaoled during the 2nd world war, learns to box from a black prisoner, is brilliant in music, boxing and apparently all else. ... Read More Rating: - Power of OneAfter having read the book, the movie was a HUGE disappointment to say the least. Rating:  - This is NOT the Power of OneAs other reviewers have commented, the plot of the movie diverges so significantly from that of the book that I do not personally think it even merits the same name. The power of one as portrayed in the movie simply is not the power of one in the book. In the movie, the power of one was made out to be the ability of a boy to overcome apartheid through uniting the people, or something like that. For the real Peekay, however, apartheid was simply an ever-present reality, not the driving force of his ... Read More Rating:  - Emotionalthis has to be one of my favorite movies. i seen this as a young teenager and it stuck with me. it was the movie that inspired me to travel to africa, and had i not, i wouldnt have met my wife. i recommend this movie to anyone who loves africa. you dont have to be a boxing fan to enjoy this one. |
