The Shell Seekers

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Summary: Most wonderful!
Review: Shellseekers is the most wonderful movie I have ever seen. Rosamund Pilcher is able to put together personal struggles, family situations, and a love interest, all coming together to make you look at your life, see yourself and your children, and go forward. To me, it is a "must read and must see" for all loving people who have had a family.

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Summary: This is NOT the SHELL SEEKERS
Review: This film bears only a passing resemblance to Rosamund Pilcher's THE SHELL SEEKERS. The director watered down the book's powerful plot to weak tea and you will barely recognize the characters. Angela Lansbury does her best but cannot help the tepid writing. The casting was almost completely off the mark - Danus is particularly badly cast. I expected a better film from the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This was so bad it took me 3 trys to get through to the end. Don't buy it. In fact, it's hardly worth renting. Reread the book instead.

Rating:
Summary: This is NOT the SHELL SEEKERS
Review: This film bears only a passing resemblance to Rosamund Pilcher's THE SHELL SEEKERS. The director watered down the book's powerful plot to weak tea and you will barely recognize the characters. Angela Lansbury does her best but cannot help the tepid writing. The casting was almost completely off the mark - Danus is particularly badly cast. I expected a better film from the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This was so bad it took me 3 trys to get through to the end. Don't buy it. In fact, it's hardly worth renting. Reread the book instead.

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Summary: Pure enjoyment
Review: This film is one of my favorites. Angela Lansbury is at her best. The film gives a real insight into family relationships. This is not surprising as Rosamonde Picher's books have much in family life, loves and troubles. I hesitate to say it, but Shell Seekers is really a woman's film.

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Summary: Turn it off before the last 20 minutes.
Review: This is one of my favorite books and after re-reading it for the umpteenth time I decided to purchase the Hallmark Hall of Fame version. The first part is very good for a TV movie - beautiful locations, fine acting (how can one fault Angela Lansbury?), and relatively faithful to the story (one must take into consideration that time is of the essence on TV and often plots become condensed). However, to TOTALLY change the ending (a medical mis-diagnosis unexplained and bringing characters back from the dead to name only two!) was unconscionable. The power of the story was lost and it turned into just another tear-jerker. It would be as if Scarlett and Rhett rode off into the sunset together and lived happily ever after! BUT, if you've never read the book it would be an enjoyable couple of hours entertainment. I will never watch The Shell Seekers again, and am putting mine up for sale (cheap!).

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Summary: Heart warming
Review: This movie is no day at the beach. It is really nostalgic and sweet. If you are easily drawn to tears while you watch a movie, keep some kleenex handy. I watched it at a friend's house and now I am buying it for my mom. Good performances throughout by the cast.

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Summary: yAwn* *
Review: This movie stars Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast. Only she isn't a tea pot in this movie. She's some old woman that had a heart attack. Now we're all waiting for her to die. 98 long minutes. She doesn't die. My grandma says she was dead at the end, but I say no..that was me. I was bored to death.

The general plot is Mrs. Potts has 3 non-teapot kids and I can't tell them apart. It seems that Nancy and her brother are married. But they aren't. Nancy is really married to some of grouch. He should die too. But I don't think he does.

The best way to veiw this movie is with the tv off and you in another room with your friends eating chocolate.

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Summary: Disappointing revision of the book
Review: This should have been a wonderful movie--Angela Lansbury and most of the rest of the cast are terrific. But someone decided that the book was too sad as originally written. I don't want to give away the book's story for those who haven't read it yet, but two major deaths have been written out and family reconciliations abound. The novel was much tougher--and truer--as written by Ms. Pilcher. Totally unnecessary.

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Summary: A TRULY ACOMPLISHED TRANSLATION TO IMAGES...
Review: Well, if instead of that sorry Porsche model they have used a Jaguar for Noel's car (as in the novel) it would have been a 100% fidelity succes...
Angela is just great! but the rest of the cast is not misplaced at all down to the last secondaries...
To Be Enjoyed (my wife just loved it!... but me too...).