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Summary: Excellent piece of work
Review: The film was so overlooked by the masses when it first was released, so it's about time it's getting recognized. Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly have such a good chemistry together and one can tell they had good fun making this film. Written and acted very well!
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Summary: far too deferential
Review: The problem is that this film, like the victorian age characters it involves, is too reserved to take a stand. The friendship is portrayed as platonic, but maybe, just maybe -- something more. In the end, you wish it HAD been portrayed as something more, because that what the film needs.
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Summary: She loved him.
Review: The truth of Queen Victoria's feelings for her factotum John Brown are revealed by one fascinating point that was not included in the film: She requested her attendants (without the knowledge of her family) to place a lock of his hair and his photograph in her hands after she was placed in her coffin, to keep a bit of him close to her for eternity.
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Summary: Helen Hunt has Judi Dench's Oscar
Review: The worse Oscar loss in history (for me) is Judi Dench losing for the work she did in this movie. I still cannot believe anyone with a brain left would vote for Helen Hunt! This is proof enough that the Oscars are garbage, and 90% of everyone who wins is undeserving. Anyway the movie, the actors, and the whole thing is unforgettable & even if this is not your type of movie, you will like it very much.
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Summary: Dignified Romance
Review: Their love story was great. It was there but no one really saw it. They didn't let everyone in on it, but it was there. Billy Connely was really terrific. I don't know if Helen Hunt was better than Judi Dench. Maybe they both should have won the Oscar.
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Summary: Fiction can be duller than truth
Review: This rather gloomy film tells the story of an imaginary love affair between Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown. In reality, their relationship was much more intersting and lively than the soppy one portrayed in the film. john Brown had a brisk, no-nonsense manner of talking to the Queen which outraged everybody else, but which she loved. Moreover, Queen Victoria was a matriarch who ruled her entire family with a rod ofiron, you would never guess that from seeing the timid, shrinking creature she is portrayed as being in this film. And as for Henry Ponsonby (Geoffrey plamer), who is portrayed in this film as a miserable git, the one thing everybody always sazys about him is what fun he was, and what a wonderful sense of humour he had. you'd never guess it from this film. nor was there every any estrangement between John Brown and the Queen,as this film implies. he stayed with her until his death, and was as rude and outspoken at the end as at the beginning. this melancholy film does not do justice to any of the characters portrayed in it. However, if you like gloomy romances, you'll probably love it.
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Summary: Fiction can be duller than truth
Review: This rather gloomy film tells the story of an imaginary love affair between Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown. In reality, their relationship was much more intersting and lively than the soppy one portrayed in the film. john Brown had a brisk, no-nonsense manner of talking to the Queen which outraged everybody else, but which she loved. Moreover, Queen Victoria was a matriarch who ruled her entire family with a rod ofiron, you would never guess that from seeing the timid, shrinking creature she is portrayed as being in this film. And as for Henry Ponsonby (Geoffrey plamer), who is portrayed in this film as a miserable git, the one thing everybody always sazys about him is what fun he was, and what a wonderful sense of humour he had. you'd never guess it from this film. nor was there every any estrangement between John Brown and the Queen,as this film implies. he stayed with her until his death, and was as rude and outspoken at the end as at the beginning. this melancholy film does not do justice to any of the characters portrayed in it. However, if you like gloomy romances, you'll probably love it.
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Summary: Thoroughly interesting film with wonderful acting.
Review: Those interested in Queen Victoria or Victorian times will love this movie. The acting by Judi Dench is brilliant, and the supporting cast does wonderfully, especially Antony Sher as Disraeli. This is a delicate love story. It's also a super illustration of the life of a queen, with all the staff and houses and clothes and perks...
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