The House of the Spirits

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Summary: Why did these fine actors do this bad movie?
Review: The cast list included Jeremy Irons, one of my favorite actors since "Brideshead Revisited" in 1982. Then there were Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder. Put off by concerns about the title and my dislike of movies involving the supernatural, I decided to watch this movie anyway, believing that the top-notch cast would make it worthwhile. What a major disappointment.

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Summary: My personal favorite.
Review: The top notch cast portrays this Argentine story of tradition, hard work, love and revolution with a quality that touched my heart.

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Summary: A horrifying interpretation of a classic piece of literature
Review: There are only 2 latino actors in this film of Allende's elegant classic...they play the whore and the revolutionary. Both Streep and Irons are brilliant actors, but are the farthest thing from hispanics one could find. They can't even pronounce the lead male character's name correctly! An embarassment, and a classic example of Hollywood's narrow cultural mind.

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Summary: One of the worst adaptaitions I have ever seen!
Review: This is my second all-time favorite movie. West Side Story being the first; however this movie is beautiful, inspires all sorts of emotions and is a film which should have been given an award!

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Summary: The House of Spirits
Review: This is my second all-time favorite movie. West Side Story being the first; however this movie is beautiful, inspires all sorts of emotions and is a film which should have been given an award!

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Summary: A heart-warming story presented by an excellent cast.
Review: This movie has a lot of "reading points" and has achieved something very difficult. Bring together top-rank cast usually does not produce good results. But, "House of the Spirits" proves that it can work fine. Inner-family problems and lack of communication as well as greed in a class-oriented society couldn't be told better. The movie has so many universal themes, finely blended. U.S. version unfortunately is not in its entirety. I say, don't miss if you see the European (longer version) by any chance.

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Summary: They cut it to schreds!
Review: This movie in its original release is fantastic , a powerfull cast . Some are perhps somewhat miscast , yet they're performances were compelling and effective. Where this particular film suffers is : They cut almost two hours out of it . Never !..... Never,ever do this to a film once released . Luckily , I taped the original release , and was very disappointed with the new edition , cut to 109 minutes. Rudy Paul Hainal

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Summary: This movie is all wrong!!!
Review: This movie was terrible and so was much of the acting. The story felt choppy and cliched. Plus why are all the major actors in this S. American drama all played by Anglo-Saxons. Since when did a Spanish land baron start speaking with an English accent? The casting made this movie totally unbelievable for me. The weak screenplay coupled with the cast doomed this movie from the start.

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Summary: Pure South American History
Review: What happens in this movie is parallel to the history of every South American country. It's the simple story of a white aristocratic family who struggles to stay together in the middle of the political struggle between the natives and the europeans. Very well done. Lyons is perfect and so is everyone else except Streep.