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Are you tired of the dumb movies that Hollywood is churning out?...
Well so am I! That's why this movie was such a great pleasure to watch. Gosford Park is a murder mystery set in a countryside mansion in England. I read in a previous review that the movie is dumb and predictable. Obviously, that reviewer prefers SMART and non-formula movies like Stealth!! PUH-LEASE! <
> Gosford Park is EXCELLENTLY scripted, and is not a typical Hollywood-type mystery at all. It will have you TRULY guessing until the very end. In addition, the cast is AMAZING, and the acting is beyond first-rate. Do not expect lame unrealistic Hollywood-type action scenes. This movie portrays the aftermath of a murder pretty realistically. Gosford Park makes my all-time Top 10 Movies list. <
> More than likely, if you love the yearly 'summer blockbuster' that Hollywood churns out (like "Stealth"), you are a lemming, and will think Gosford Park is boring. You will not like it. However, if you hate how many dumb movies Hollywood makes these days, then give Gosford Park a try. You WILL love this movie. <
> One final note: The movie is set in England, and utilizes English and Scottish actors, complete with real accents. If you find it hard to understand accents, you may find it helpful to watch the movie with the subtitles on, as the soundtrack has a very real-life feel to it, with many conversations overlapping each other. The subtitles are quite good, and will help you hear all the nuances of the coversations.

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Tea At Four. Dinner At Eight. Murder At Midnight!
It is November, 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Novello and an American film producer who makes Charlie Chan movies. As the guests assemble in the gilded drawing rooms above, their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchens and corridors below-stairs. But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejewelled guests lunching and dining at their considerable leisure, nor in the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labor for the comfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the film is finally a moving portrait of events that bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history and culminate in a murder. (Or is it two murders?) Ultimately revealing the intricate relations of the above and below-stairs worlds with great clarity, Gosford Park illuminates a society and way of life quickly coming to an end. <
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>Fresh off of its multiple nominations at the 2001 Academy Awards, and Academy's winner of the Best Original Screenplay, comes Gosford Park to DVD. Most who have seen this film have fallen in love with it, I on the other hand, felt the story moved far to slow, and my interest waned as the film progressed. Though I was not captivated by the film itself, the acting was superb, and the premise was solid. <
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>The most important special feature that is included on the DVD is the Making-of Gosford Park. This 20 minute featurette includes most everything one should need to know about how this film was made. The main topics covered are how the film was conceived, and a behind-the-scenes look at the film. <
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>I am glad that the Making-of featurette was so good, because the two audio commentaries are not that worth while. Both commentaries (the first includes the Director, Producer, and Production Designer, while the second includes the screenwriter) are dry and do not cover much important information regarding the film. This lack of decent content is a shame... this film deserved more. <
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>Lastly, this disc includes 20 minutes worth of deleted scenes (with or without commentary), an 8 minute featurette on the Authenticity of Gosford Park, a 25 minute Cast & Crew Q&A, and DVD basics such as the trailer and production notes. <
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>Most people will absolutely love this film and DVD. Though the story moves slower then a turtle, the plot and acting are both extremely solid. The audio sounds great, and the special features are solid. You will most likely want to check this disc out.

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Intelligent and highly pleasurable period satire
Gosford Park is a big English country house in the early 1930s. It is inhabited by William McCordle (Michael Gambon), his wife Sylvia (Kristen Scott-Thomas) and their daughter Isobel (Camilla Rutherford). William and Sylvia's not very happy marriage is a fairly flagrant exchange of financial prosperity for social standing as prior to it she was immensely posh but broke, while he was not posh at all but extremely rich thanks to the factories he owns. They are hosting a weekend social gathering to do a spot of shooting and have invited mainly her relatives, his being presumably too common. The exception is his cousin Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam) who belongs to the new Hollywood aristocracy (not that that cuts much social ice hereabouts - the servants are overawed, their masters sniffy) and his film director friend from Hollywood Morris Weissman (Bob Balaban) who has got himself invited along with a view to researching a planned movie about toffs together with the later's valet Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe). Also along are Sylvia's sister Louisa Stocksbridge (Geraldine Somerville) accompanied by her arrogantly patrician war hero husband Raymond (Charles Dance) and his valet Robert Parks (Clive Owen); her other sister Lavinia (Natasha Wightman) rather less successfully married off to the weak and financially straightened Anthony (Tom Hollander) who is as desperate to get William to invest in his schemes for a boot factory in the Sudan as William is determined to do no such thing; her nephew Freddie Nesbit who is also in dire straits for money and divides his time between sucking up to William in the hope of being offered employment and bullying his wife Mabel (Caudie Blakely), who has also been married for her money, but having had less that was hoped, is now treated with merciless scorn and contempt; Sylvia's stingy and supercilious aunt Constance Trentham (Maggie Smith) and her maid Mary MacCeachran (Kelly MacDonald). That's about it upstairs about from a couple of additional young fellows Lord Rupert Standish (Laurence Fox) and Jeremy Blond (Trent Ford) who show up late and never really integrate successfully into either the social gathering or the film except that the former seems to have his eye on Isobel or at least what she stands to inherit inheritance. <
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>You might perhaps think that was already complicated enough. But in the meantime Parks and Maceachran arrive downstairs to find themselves in the midst of a huge army of servants presided over by housekeeper Mrs Wilson (Helen Mirren) and alcoholic butler Jennings (Alan Bates) prominent among whom are head cook Mrs Croft (Eileen Atkins); head housemaid (and William's mistress), Elsie (Emily Watson), William's valet Probert (Derek Jacobi), the lecherous footman George (Richard E. Grant) and the nymphomaniac kitchen maid Dorothy (Sophie Thompson). All this huge array of people mingle, gossip, intrigue their way though an evening and the following day until, the second evening, Sir William turns up murdered in his study, bringing the law onto the scene in the form of the drolly moronic Inspector Thompson (Stephen Fry) and his rather less dimwitted underling Constable Dexter (Ron Webster). <
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>Smith, Mirren, Gambon, Scott-Thomas, Jacobi, Bates, Dance, Watson, Grant, Atkins, Fry... Some cast. The British film A-list is very bit as talented as their American counterparts but, sadly for them, an awful lot less expensive, to the point where it is possible for a movie such as this to simply buy them all up as a huge job lot. All are perfectly cast and superb with the exception I fear of Fry whose bumbling clod of an Inspector is mildly amusing but completely unbelievable and belongs in a very different, less serious and naturalistic sort of comedy than is this: like Geraldine Chalplin in 'Nashville' he is the comic touch that doesn't really work. In such a sprawling typically Altmanesque ensemble piece it should be impossible for any actor to dominate but happily no one has explained this to Maggie Smith whose magnificently funny performance effortlessly steal the movie. <
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>It's a hugely enjoyable movie superbly put together. Altman has much with age. It lacks the satirical savagery of a `Nashville' or a `Short Cuts' and a clearly deeply critical take on the puffery, snobbery and often terrible cruelty of this ferociously hierarchical class system is tempered and slightly undermined by a slight but definitely perceptible unmistakeable nostalgic sneaking regard for this nice stable ordered but clearly dying world where everybody knew where they belonged and (mostly) stayed there. So it's an at once contemptuous and affectionate, despairing and humane picture of a bunch of toffs and their servants in the years between the wars with a scene in the middle where they all go off shooting birds in the local woods: it's certainly natural to suppose all this involves considerably more than a nodding glance back to Renoir's `Rules of the Game'. If that is Altman's model of course he hasn't matched it but he's nonetheless made a richly intricate, intelligent and highly enjoyable film. <
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