Hold Back the Night [DVD] [1999]: Amazon.co.uk: Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock, Richard Platt, Julie Ann Watson, Kenneth Colley, Tommy Tiernan, Andrew Livingston, Bruce Byron, Peter Anders, Lars Oostveen, Hannah Bridges, Cinders Forshaw, Philip Davis, Adam Ross, Robert How, Sally Hibbin, Sarah McCarthy, Torsten Leschly, Steve Chambers: Film & TV

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Actors: Christine Tremarco, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Sheila Hancock, Richard Platt, Julie Ann Watson
Directors: Philip Davis
Writers: Steve Chambers
Producers: Robert How, Sally Hibbin, Sarah McCarthy, Torsten Leschly
Format: PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Cinema Club
DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2002
Run Time: 104 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004SX7D
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,394 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but not great, 16 April 2006

David Welsh (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews
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An unspectacular but charming road-movie about a troubled young girl on the run from her past, a warm, intelligent anti-road protester who falls for her, and an old woman making a pilgrimage to a stone circle on the Shetland Islands in the last days of her life. An engaging story of love and death, even if it is pretty sentimental and poorly written in places.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hold Back the Night, 8 May 2011

Katherine Wildman "Persephone" (Newcastle, UK) - See all my reviews
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A gripping, tense and powerful film that grabs your attention from the opening scene Hold Back the Night is a beautiful depiction of the love that makes the world go round, despite the awful things that can happen in a lifetime. This film will stay with me for a very long time to come. The use of location is tremendous. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my TOP FIVE films of all time!, 2 Jan 2010

Pagan Ronnie (England) - See all my reviews

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A truly brilliant film!
I caught this purely on the off chance on tv one night ages ago and it left such an impression on me that I had to track it down as soon as I discovered Amazon marketplace!
It is understated from the outset but quickly gets under your skin.
A 'road movie' in a very 'English' sense, the vehicle being a VW microbus rather than some yankee gas guzzler and the road is in the Scottish Highlands rather than route 66!
Brilliant performances from all the three main characters. Most of all from Sheila Hancock who plays the elderly 'lonely old dyke' (Vera) on a final trip to the Stone Circle of the Ring Of Brodgar on the Scottish Island of Orkney before she dies of cancer. In a bid to once again feel close to the long lost love of her life, who had come from there and often told her about it.
The other two characters are the young, abused, bitter, mouthy, teenage runaway Charleen & gorgeous, grungy, dreadlocked, Donga type road protester Deklan: who 'bump' into each other in a pub and end up 'getting-it-together' back at his bender on the protest camp and have to do a runner when the pigs do a dawn raid on the camp and Charlene smacks a security guard' (who's beating up Deklan) over the head with his Didgeridoo. It's as they leg it from the old bill that they run into Vera and get away in her VW. From this point on the film gradually opens up it depth untill you find yourself really caring about all three characters in equal amounts! It is truly brilliant in every way. Funny, heart stopping, heart melting and tear jerking monents along with one very nice moment when Deklan gets his kit off to go skinny dipping in a river (a DVD player with a good zoom facility is a definite bonus here!) NO BUT SERIOUSLY - this is just a 'very nice' added bonus to what is otherwise a spectacularly EXCELLENT FILM - I simply can't rate it high enough!

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