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Product Description The Nativity Story is a remarkable, if frustratingly restrained, act of imagining the tale of Christ's birth as a flesh-and-blood drama actually set in Israel two millenia ago. Written by Mike Rich (Finding Forrester) and directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen), the film makes very strong impressions in a scene-by-scene way. Beginning with the slaughter (bloodlessly portrayed; this is a PG movie) of Bethlehem’s innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod (a dark and knowing Ciarán Hinds), the film then jumps back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah (Stanley Townsend) that his wife, Elizabeth (Shohreh Aghdashloo), will bear a child. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes), struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph (Oscar Isaac). Soon comes word to Mary, via an angel, that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Thus begins a detailed account of Joseph and Mary's hard travel to Bethlehem, while three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Hardwicke and Rich anchor all this in period detail, though what proves most moving are relationship nuances, especially the friendship and trust that emerge between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy. While The Nativity Story should appeal to almost anyone as a straightforward narrative, it is far from a secular version of the familiar Biblical tale, and thus feels a bit stifled. It might have been nice if the film could have breathed a little more with imagination, but The Nativity Story makes up for it by ingeniously weaving hints of things to come, later in Christ's life, into the action. --Tom Keogh
Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciarán Hinds.
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish |
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Product Details Average Customer Rating:  (2 reviews) (DVD) Release Date: March 01, 2007 Label: New Line Cinema Corporation Distributed By: New Line Cinema Corporation Publisher: New Line Cinema Corporation Length: 7.46 inches Height: 0.65 inches Weight: 0.65 (lbs) Language: Category: CHRISTMAS ISBN: 0780656709 EAN / ISBN-13: 9780780656703 UPC: 794043106682 Product Code: 171584 |
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Customer Reviews Average Customer Rating: (2 reviews)  The beginning of the Passion of the Christ May 6, 2007Reviewer: from Oklahoma This movie is a wonderful movie that the entire family can enjoy. It is touching to see the love that Mary always had for Chirst, yet humbling to see our savior as a child. This is a wonderful family movie that can be seen all year long. it makes me smile March 24, 2007Reviewer: Anonymous from barrie, ontario this movie in my opinion was really well made. almost accurate. i thought it brought the birth of Christ to life. Show all 2 reviews |
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