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My Antonia (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Joseph Sargent

Written By:
Willa Cather
Victoria Riskin

Actors:
Jason Robards ..... Josea Burden
Eva Marie Saint ..... Emmaline Burden
Neil Patrick Harris ..... Jimmy Burden
Jan Tríska ..... Mr. Shimerda
Norbert Weisser ..... Otto
Anne Tremko ..... Lena Lingard
Travis Fine ..... Harry Paine
Mira Furlan ..... Mrs. Shimerda
Boris Lee Krutonog
Elina Lowensohn ..... Antonia Shimerda
Bobby Goldstein ..... Ambrosch Shimerda
T. Max Graham ..... Mr. Harling
John Livingston ..... Charley Harling
Sarah Bernhardt ..... Sally Harling
Devon Arielle Cahill ..... Nina Harling

Synopsis:

This first film adaptation of Willa Cather's classic novel is a coming-of-age story of set in 1880s Nebraska. Orphaned after his parents die in a smallpox epidemic in Virginia, the teenager Jimmy Burden (Neil Patrick Harris) moves to the farm of his grandparents (Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint) outside Black Hawk, Nebraska. Their neighbours, newly arrived from Bohemia, are the Shimerda family, and Jimmy instantly becomes friends with the family's 15-year-old daughter, Antonia (Elina Lowensohn). He's pulled in two directions; her father wants him to teach her English, but his grandfather is wary of her distracting Jimmy from his own studies. After tragedy strikes the Shimerda family, Jimmy moves to town with his aging grandparents, who want to nurture his potential for becoming a university student and taking on a career. Antonia does come to work in town, thanks to the help of Jimmy's grandmother, but it's made clear to the young woman that she is not to distract Jimmy from his studies. Although Jimmy does go off to the state university in Lincoln and eventually Harvard Law School, he and Antonia maintain their friendship, understanding that the bond they formed as adolescents will endure.

Life in rural Nebraska in the late 1890s.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 08 October, 2016.