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Love and Death on Long Island [VHS] [1998]

John Hurt (Actor), Jason Priestley (Actor), Richard Kwietniowski (Director) | Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over | Format: VHS Tape
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  • Actors: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock, Harvey Atkin
  • Directors: Richard Kwietniowski
  • Language: English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Fox Pathe
  • VHS Release Date: 19 July 1999
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CXR2
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 291,680 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Ivory-towered, London-based author Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) lives life undisturbed by modern culture. However, a chance viewing of the teen comedy 'Hotpants College II' in his local cinema, leads to him becoming besotted with one of its stars, Hollywood hunk Richie Bostock (Jason Priestley). Jolted out of his self-imposed period of cultural and social isolation, De'Ath travels across the ocean to Long Island to track down Bostock. This unusual romantic comedy is based on film critic Gilbert Adair's book, which in turn took its inspiration from Thomas Mann's novella 'Death in Venice'.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Loving De'ath on Long Island 19 Feb 2006
By J. Mcmillan
Format:DVD
This is a funny and telling film. John Hurt portrays a dusty academic named Giles De'Ath who discovers, in late middle age, a crush on teen movie idol Ronnie Bostock (played by Jason Priestly). The script shrewdly imagines the book-learned academic's first encounter with the teen movie genre. Giles is simultaneously gripped by the film's plot (so much more pacey and vivid than anything in the aged literature he's used to) and appalled by the (barely coherent) dialogue of the young protagonists. But it is Bostock that leaves a lasting impression, prompting Giles to seek out the rest of his films on video (his first ever purchase of a tv and his misunderstanding of how subtitles work are other memorable moments). Hurt has fun, dead-panning his way through Giles' bizarre mis-interpretations of modern culture, and Priestley (then fresh from Beverley Hills 90210) throws himself into the ironic take on a character many would have attributed to him in real life. The film loses balance when Giles awkwardly reveals to Ronnie that he loves him. Perhaps the director doesn't find Ronnie's homophobia funny, but there's no easy shift between comedy and drama here. Nonetheless "Love and Death..." is perhaps the best depiction of a high brow slackening ever committed to film.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful, wry, story about lust and love 24 Jun 2007
By S. Carter
Format:DVD
this movie always makes me smile. so brilliantly acted by JOhn Hurt and Jason Priestly...lots of unexpected touching and funny scenes (especially the end where Hurt faxes his whole story to Priestly, and the truth dawning on priestly that he may have just missed an amazing opportunity). Hurt falls for teen idol Priestly when he accidently goes into the wrong auditorium at the cinema and sees Hot Pants 2 instead of the art-house movie he intended. He is apalled by the drivel on screen until Priestly's character Ronnie Bostock appears - Hurt is overcome with a quiet lust that becomes amusingly obsessive. The obsession forces him to embrface 21st century investions such as TV, video and pizza delivery (having previously abhorred the modern day) so that he can indulge himself with all night sessions of teen movies starring bostock. He then uses his fame as an author to seek Bostock out in the flesh in Long Island. Stalking him and then bumping into him and pretending he is writing a screenplay that would be perfect for Bostock. None of this is as sinister as it sounds - Hurt's dusty old professor character is far too innocent for that. When the truth finally comes out - the end is just wonderful.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars An engagingly told, touching, and often very funny film. 26 May 2000
By Steve
Format:VHS Tape
The story of how Hurt's ivory tower novelist, Giles De'Ath, decides after the death of his wife that he's tired of hearing himself say "no" and, spurred on by his crush on an actor in terrible teen movies, sets about embracing the modern world and his own sexuality, is engagingly told. The film is often laugh-out-loud funny as the quintessential English old-fogey De'Ath gets to grips with modern technology and small-town America, while at the same time very serious as he moves in on his target like a rather different kind of stalker. The resolution is touching, up-beat, and hopeful.
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