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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302877908 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6302877903 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 14, 1994 Running Time: 130 minutes Sales Rank: 7328 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 19, 1984
Rating: - Too good to be missing
This film is unavailable from Block Buster or NetFlix or the library system. It is too important to be abandoned. I don't know why, if it is considered politically incorrect or too hot to handle, or what. John La Carre wrote without an agenda, showing both sides, warts and all. I plan to loan it to as many people as will watch it.
Sandi
Rating: - Riveting
Diane Keaton will never be too old! She's a masterpiece and so is this movie. The gut-wrenching decisions Keaton's character is forced to make are ones that make for truly great drama. A keeper. Not to be missed.
Rating: - realistic
Le Carre (David Cornwall) was in British Intelligence just after the war. He, if anyone, is superbly qualified to give insight into what happens in the secret world.
Rating: - False colors
George Roy Hill's film of John Le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl was, like most Le Carre adaptations, a big box-office disappointment in 1984 and has long since pretty much disappeared from sight (it's currently only on DVD in Germany). Its plot isn't the easiest of sells, it's true: to track down and kill a Palestinian terrorist, Mossad trick an actress and Palestinian sympathiser into becoming their own undercover agent, in the process revealing and stripping away the inventions and deceits she has carefully cultivated to hide her own lack of a sense of self and creating a new, equally false ... Read More
Rating: - Very Mixed Feelings
For those who haven't read the book--you should, it is, 20-some years later, still relevant and still compelling and still a fast-paced and gripping thriller. Given that this is a book I have read & re-read, I had to have the movie, even when I discovered it was only available on VHS.
Where to begin? Diane Keaton's performance is nearly overshadowed by her 80's shoulder pads, which is saying a lot, as it is an extremely mannered performance. I like Diane Keaton, but she's just not right for this role. That being said, there are a number of indelible scenes--I'm thinking particularly ... Read More
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