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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Region 1 DVD

Description: D D B B Amazon.com essential video Maggie Smith is so witty and commanding in this film, you might forget that the script paints Jean Brodie as an ultimately self-deluding spinster. Dame Maggie won the first of her two Oscars for playing a teacher in 1930s Edinburgh more in thrall to her romantic notions of art and beauty than the real world, a cultivator of worshipping "Brodie Girls." (She exalts the Mona Lisa and Mussolini with equal fervor.) Smith's expert playing makes many of the brogue-heavy Brodie-isms worth memorizing ("She seeks to intimidate me by the use of quarter-hours.") and raises the picture ... (more)
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Release date: 6 July 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0024543119944 UPC: 024543119944
Tags: Drama (2), UK (1), Maggie Smith (1)
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