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Gandhi (1982)

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Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 33  Rotten:6 Average Rating: 7.6/10
 
Consensus: Director Richard Attenborough is typically sympathetic and sure-handed, but it's Ben Kingsley's magnetic performance that acts as the linchpin for this sprawling, lengthy biopic.
 

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Runtime: 3 hrs 11 mins

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social... Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his "subversive" activities land him in jail, masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India, Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives, so the crown responds by slaughtering 1,500 Indians. Enraged, the ascetic, spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Director: Richard Attenborough
Screenwriter: John Briley
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Composer: Ravi Shankar

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 13, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • 2-Disc Set
  • Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround - Spanish, French, Portuguese
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Additional Footage - Vintage Newsreel Footage
  • Audio Commentaries - Lord Richard Attenborough - Director
  • Featurettes - 1. "In Search of Gandhi"
  • 2. "Reflections on Ben"
  • 3. "Madeleine Slade: An Englishwoman Abroad"
  • 4. "The Funeral"
  • 5. "Looking Back"
  • 6. "Shooting an Epic in India"
  • 7. "Designing GANDHI"
  • 8. "From the Director's Chair"
  • 9. "The Words of Mahatma Gandhi"
  • Interviews - Sir Ben Kingsley - Star
  • Introduction - Lord Richard Attenborough - Director

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Attenborough's crowning achievement as a director.

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03/25/08
Dennis Schwartz
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4/5

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03/08/08
Cole Smithey
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Ben Kingsley's title performance is amazing, particularly in the way he ages across the five decades which the film depicts.

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01/29/08
Douglas Pratt
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Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.

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01/29/08
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Variety
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It's safe to say that if you knew nothing about Gandhi before going in to the movie, you wouldn't know a whole lot more coming out.

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01/29/08
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07/28/07
Susan Granger
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2/4

Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India.

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03/05/07
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
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3/4

Every bit the biopic that Patton was, Gandhi is emotionally engaging but taxing on the viewer's stamina. Ben Kingsley is astounding.

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12/22/06
Wesley Lovell
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3/4

Despite an intelligent title performance by Ben Kingsley and impressive cinematography in the manner of David Lean, this huge, clunky biopic offers less than meets the eye.

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12/17/06
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography.

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12/17/06
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Despite an intelliegnt performance by Ben Kingsley in the lead, Attenborousgh's biopic is disappointingly conventional, failing to illuminate the venerable leader or the socio-political context in which he lived.

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07/28/06
Emanuel Levy
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Its faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsley's performance in the central role is outstanding.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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10/27/05
Robin Clifford
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5/5

A true epic in every sense of the word!

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01/01/05
Michael A. Smith
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3/5

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11/12/04
Emanuel Levy
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4/4

A remarkable experience.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Overshadowing even Ben Kingsley's astonishing, transcendent performance in his first major screen role is a larger, more formidable presence: that of Gandhi himself.

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07/09/04
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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06/08/04
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com
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2/5

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03/04/04
Frank Swietek
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4/5

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10/04/03
Nell Minow
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