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DVD ~ Brian Blessed
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  • Actors: Brian Blessed, Hannah Gordon, Darren Redmayne
  • Directors: Peter Barber-Fleming
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 250 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000HCO58O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,982 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The eccentric Durrell family leave the grey skies of England and move to Corfu, where a succession of colourful characters appear in their lives. Adapted from popular Gerald Durrell's autobiography and features all ten episodes of the BBC series.

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4.0 out of 5 stars My Family and Other Animals, 29 Oct 2006
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I had been hoping for some time that this adaptation would be released on disc but was irritated to find that certain memorable sequences have been cut from this version. Viewers will miss the humour at the Greek customs of Mother Durrell's bag being retained, of Margot in full cry from an upper window, of some of the eccentricities of Larry's artist friends. Also a surrealistic scene of the family eating of a table in the sea and the conclusion has been docked of references to the political tension in Europe in the late 1930's. Still most of the film has survived intact and all the chief performers turn in first class performances.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sun-drenched, 9 Nov 2008
I too had been hoping for this release, having read several of Gerald Durrell's books and also having been most disappointed by the recent release, with Imelda Staunton. This is so beautifully filmed (no wonder the BBC Natural Hisory Unit were involved) that my memory of it as a sun-filled oasis before a hard week at work was not disappointed, as 20 year-old memories so often are. The performances of every family member, and those closely associated with them, were memorable. Surely Brian Blessed was born to play Spiro? Hannah Gordon is an excellent Mother: warm but slightly eccentric, tossing a whole scorpion (mercifully dead) into one of her culinary inventions. I am resisting singling out the rest of the family for praise but a mention must go to young Gerry, played by Darren Redmayne: a most convincing Gerry, obsessed by nature, together with his mentor Theo (who I think of every time I say "as you know..."). Do watch it, whether you remember the original or not!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Happy memories..., 27 Feb 2009
By Alex Delaval (Charente-Maritime, FRANCE) - See all my reviews
Having watched avidly the original screening of this - can it really be over twenty years ago? - and being great lovers of Corfu, my wife and I were keen to see if it lived up to our memories. We were not disappointed: a uniformly strong cast - impossible to imagine Mrs Durrell being better played than by Hannah Gordon, whilst Brian Blessed's Spiro needs no-one to trumpet his excellence: another bravura performance by this larger-than-life actor, Anthony Calf's suitably cynical and jaundiced Larry the perfect foil to young Darren Redmayne's unfailingly enthusiastic, if at times exasperating, Gerry - and wonderfully evocative scenery. Still a winner!
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