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Gosford Park (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 120
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus: A mixture of Upstars, Downstairs, Clue, and perceptive social commentary, Gosford Park ranks among director Altman's best.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some language and brief sexuality
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Dec 26, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $41,274,328
Synopsis: In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE.... In GOSFORD PARK, Robert Altman explores the English class system and master-servant relations via his preferred modus operandi of multiple characters and intertwining storylines, which he achieved so brilliantly in NASHVILLE. Featuring an all-star British ensemble cast, the film recalls both THE RULES OF THE GAME and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, with a midpoint shift to an Agatha Christie whodunit. In November 1932, a phalanx of moneyed guests arrives for a weekend shooting party at the estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas). Mary (Kelly Macdonald), a fresh-faced, naïve new maid accompanies the sniping Countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), and is shown the ropes by the house's worldly head housemaid, Elsie (Emily Watson). While the masters engage in various financial and sexual intrigues upstairs, the world downstairs has its own curiosities--namely, the predatory valet to a Hollywood producer, Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe), and the mysterious, cagey servant, Robert Parks (Clive Owen). Mary soon discovers that the image of servants living vicariously through their masters is a false one, and that the upstairs-downstairs worlds are often shockingly interwoven. With GOSFORD PARK, Altman delivers a fascinating, blackly comic look at the treacherous yet poignant gamesmanship between the classes. [More]
Starring: Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Emily Watson
Starring: Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Emily Watson, Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly McDonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Geraldine Somerville, Sophie Thompson, James Wilby, Camilla Rutherford, Claudie Blakley
Director: Robert Altman
Director: Robert Altman
Screenwriter: Julian Fellowes
Producer: Robert Altman, Bob Balaban
Studio: USA Films
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Release:
Jun 25, 2002
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes (with Optional Audio Commentary)
- Audio Commentary - 1. Robert Altman - Director, Stephen Altman - Production Designer, David Levy - Producer
- 2. Julian Fellowes - Screenwriter
- Production Interview - 1. Cast & Crew
- Making-of - 1. THE MAKING OF GOSFORD PARK
- Featurette - 1. THE AUTHENTICITY OF GOSFORD PARK
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Filmography - 1. Cast & Crew
Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
Reviews for Gosford Park
Contents and style converge smoothly and seductively in Altman's luxuriant period drama that applies Agatha Christie murder-mystery format to a rigorous anatomy of British class structure in the 1930s, with all the who's who in U.K. in the cast.
Altman juggles about thirty different characters, moving them from the upper-class upstairs to the servants' quarters... and he does so without losing the audience.
Pret-a-Porter and Dr. T. & and the Women, tarnished his '90s comeback, but the ornery Altman is back in top form here.
please don't raise an eyebrow when you hear such lines as, "Desperate for a ***?" or "Too many fags. They'll be the death of me." The locale here is English society. The date: November 1932. And the "fags" that are being chatted about are puffed on, so pl
Altman takes you from one delicious subplot to another, serving up mirth and misery in equal measure and exploring the gulf between the lives of those above and below stairs.
An intruguing commentary on the separation of the classes that will bring back memories of The Remains Of The Day.
The most leaden and uninteresting threads of the film's first half become the most important elements in the murder mystery.
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