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List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $8.99 You Save: $5.99 (40%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792851370
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792851374
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2001
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 4561
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 16, 1990
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Editorial Review:
Description:
With 'sharply expressive performances (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) by its young cast, this stunning adventure explores the deep dark corners of the human soul, as a group of adolescent castaways are thrust into an intense world where law and accountability are governed by the rules of survival. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itselfmarooned on a deserted island. Realizing the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the island paradise becomes their own, competition and power struggles split them into two packs. Ralph (Bathazar Getty) leads one group and preaches civilized ingenuity and togetherness, but Jack (Chris Furrh) wants nothing of it and builds a faction of barbaric hunters who ultimately go to war with Ralph. This powerful shift in conscience transforms ordinary kids into primal killers, setting off a devastating battle of good versus evil and presenting a haunting metaphor for the savage in us all.
Amazon.com:
Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the Lord of the Flies dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun." Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. --Keith Simanton
Average Rating: 
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Surely there was no reason for the changes that were made to this screenplay from the book itself - the book is slim / exact / and requires no modification or accomodation. The char. of Piggy is spot-on; Ralph is a bit stiff; Jack is way too young to be Jack; the constant f-this and f-that speeches; and the flight captain coming in on the beach with them from the start was a sure sign that the creator of the film was about to take artistic license - there were no bonus features, but I could imagine ... Read More
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My male students LOVED this movie. As a high-school teacher for English foundations, I try my best to expose my students to the literature their peers in regular English classes receive. I must utilize movies as a visual aide supplement to help them connect with the characters, setting, dialogue... I strongly recommend using this dvd to support your curriculum to teach on all levels of student learning (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
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The Bottom Line:
The child acting is sometimes imperfect, but this mainly-faithful adaptation of the novel succeeds more than it fails--by making the relationship between Piggy and Ralph a bit more friendly, it sacrifices a bit of Golding's allegorical vision to make a more compelling narrative.
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This movie version of "Lord of the Flies" is a prime example of how a screenwriter can completely destroy a classic novel.
This movie is a major disappointment . So many liberties are taken with the plot that one might say that the book and the movie are shadows of each other. I've taught this book in English class for about twenty years on and off, (Mostly off) and this year decided to show the modern version rather than the outstanding black and white sixties version.
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I purchased the movie as a supplement to the unit I taught on Anarchy. The stduents related to it and fully understood it. IT is important that we teach not only the fact that we have rules, but why they are so important and and what life would be like without rules. This movie did just that
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