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| The Other Boleyn Girl | 
 enlarge | Actor: Natalie Portman
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  142 reviews
Sales Rank: 224
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 21450
UPC: 043396214507
EAN: 0043396214507
ASIN: B0012QE4Q2
Theatrical Release Date: February 29, 2008
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Based on the best-selling novel The Other Boleyn Girl is a captivating tale of intrigue romance and betrayal starring Natalie Portman Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana. Two sisters Anne (Portman) and Mary (Johansson) are driven by their ambitious family to seduce the king of England (Bana) in order to advance their position in court. What starts as an opportunity for the girls to increase the family fortune becomes a deadly rivalry to capture the heart of a king and stay alive.System Requirements:Running Time: 115 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396214507 Manufacturer No: 21450
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A tale of two sisters competing for the same king, The Other Boleyn Girl uses historical facts as window dressing for this work of fiction that is entertaining, if not wholly believable. Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) is the doe-eyed vixen ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Her shy sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) has always been in Anne's shadow; Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary--the "other Boleyn girl"--as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. With a pair of American actresses in the lead roles and an Aussie portraying their hunky object of desire, the English accents are all over the place in this period piece with a modern feel. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her "daughters are being traded like cattle for the advancement of men," it is Anne who ultimately throws her slight weight around to bully Henry into doing her bidding. When he begs her to give herself to him, Anne--wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque "B" pendant on her neck--counters, "Make me your Queen." Is the audience really supposed to believe that Henry the VIII--the most powerful man in the land--would divorce Catherine of Aragon, separate from the Catholic church, and put England in upheaval simply because Anne refused to sleep with him until he jumped through all her hoops? "I have torn this country apart for you," he hisses at her before finally getting his way. Based on Philippa Gregory's bestselling novel of the same name, The Other Boleyn Girl features an attractive cast and a familiar plot with some icky twists. Kieran McGuigan's cinematography is breathtaking and is as crucial to setting the film's tone as the dialogue. Actually, it fares better: Lines such as "Well? Did he have you?!" sound almost comical. But the sweeping shots of Henry's kingdom and the carefully framed close-ups of Portman and Johansson are breathtaking in their beauty and say what words simply cannot. --Jae-Ha Kim Get to Know the Cast of The Other Boleyn Girl
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Natalie Portman (Anne Boleyn) | 
Scarlett Johansson (Mary Boleyn) |
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Eric Bana (Henry Tudor) | 
Jim Sturgess (George Boleyn) | 
Kristin Scott Thomas (Lady Elizabeth Boleyn) |
Beyond The Other Boleyn Girl 
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The Soundtrack | Stills from The Other Boleyn Girl (click for larger image)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 137 more reviews...
 THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL August 29, 2008
GREAT DVD. ON AMAZON YOU CAN GET IT AT A FRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL COST.
 Pretty Good August 28, 2008
Saw this at the theater, first. Not too bad. Good to see natalie Portman has started to act. her amadala was, to be honest, pretty plastic. Scarlet Johansson was good. She has a much better range than Portman. The Henry VIII actor should have been chosen to look a bit more like Henry. Also, the presence of the English King was a bit weak.
Okay, but see HBO's the Tudors for real drama. August 22, 2008
The drama was weak compared to the Henry VIII story line in HBO's the Tudors. In this story, Henry visits the Boleyns, falls off his horse in a ride with Ann (NP), injuries nursed by recently married untitled mans wife Mary(SJ) who is then asked to come to court (gives husband job), takes Mary to his bed, she eventually becomes pregnant and Henry's eye continues to wonder (to Ann) who teases Henry with flirts yet rejects his gifts. It glosses over the separation of England from the Roman Catholic Church as well as the religious and political turmoil, and treasonous plots other than adultry and thus becomes boring. Ok for a 2 hour rent.
 A Better Choice is Anne of the Thousand Days August 22, 2008
Forget buying The Other Boelyn. A better choice is Anne of the Thousand Days. The story is told with a far superior script, and cinematography. Richard Burton as King Henry VIII is outstanding. Eric Bana's performance pale's in comparison. An extra reason is that the outstanding movie Mary, Queen of Scots is included on a second DVD. It is a real bargain.
Entertaining soap opera August 21, 2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
This movie is about men who barter with women. Two sisters, close in age, are born to the Boleyn family. The mother, Elizabeth Howard, married Thomas Boleyn against her family's wishes, as she married "down" in society, but she was happy because she married for love. Unfortunately, her conniving brother and fame-seeking husband barter off her daughters for a place in the royal family.
The movie starts off with Mary's (Scarlett Johansson) wedding to the merchant's son. She could have married higher on the social scale, but like her mother, she married for love. Shortly after her marriage, her older sister Ann (Natalie Portman) is asked by both her father and uncle to "entertain" the king when he comes to visit. King Henry VIII (Eric Bana) and his wife have been unable to have a son (they're born stillborn). Ann's conniving father tells her it is important for her to impress the king on the stag hunt, so when the stag goes down a deep ravine, Ann is the only rider who follows (without getting injured, I might add). But the King, not to be outdone, follows and falls off his horse. After this embarrassment (of his own fault), the king is no longer interested in Ann. In fact, she proves to be an embarrassment to him, so Thomas Boleyn sends in his other daughter, Mary, to attend to the king's injuries. What follows are a series of disturbing acts by the men in this story, as well as the now extremely jealous Ann. Mary's husband offers her to the king in a moment of horrible betrayal and Mary's world suddenly crumbles as she's handed off like a piece of furniture. The only person on her side is her mother, who rages at the father who bartered off both daughters like cattle.
After Mary's first night with the king, she is interrogated by her uncle and father before her mother, the queen, and half a dozen people in the room. Shortly thereafter, Ann runs off and marries a noble, and the marriage is quickly "erased" while Ann is banished to the countryside. The way the uncle and father manipulate these two is terrible. The king is probably his most tender when he is with Mary and since her husband is so inadequate in the bedroom, it's easy to see how she enjoys the king's company. Ann, on the other hand, becomes more and more spiteful, starting a series of events that will eventually destroy her (and you won't be sympathetic either). Perhaps the most amusing point in this movie is when the girls' brother is forced to marry a woman he hates. Laughable, because he eagerly helped his father and uncle barter off his sisters.
Ann is finally brought back into the picture when Mary becomes pregnant with the king's child and is bedridden. Her task is to keep Mary foremost in the King's mind at all times (so he doesn't bed someone else), but that's about the furthest thing from Ann's mind. No surprise there. But don't worry, Ann gets exactly what she deserves (just like the real Ann).
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