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Hold Back The Night [DVD] [1999]

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4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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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: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004SX7D
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 43,886 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Surround English
Dolby Surround
Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menus
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HOLD BACK THE NIGHT, directed by Phil Davis and produced by long-time Ken Loach collaborator Sally Hibbin, is the story of two Scottish youngsters, Charleen (Christine Tremarco) and Declan (Stuart Sinclair Blyth), on the run from the past, their families, and the police. Both are damaged, complex, and difficult, but soon they begin to come to terms with each other and their newfound friends--Killer, an unlovable pit bull terrier, and Vera (Sheila Hancock), a lesbian whose dying wish is to see the sunrise on the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but not great, 17 April 2006
By 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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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great FIlm, 6 Dec 2002
By Peter Charlesworth (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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After an uninspiring start, this film really is good. Charlene (played by Christine T) is a likeable if damaged characheter who must have been great fun to play. The photography is good with lots of Scottish scenery and the film moves on at a decent pace. It's part road movie part self discovery and it's British. The sound track is fantastic - especially towards the end.
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13 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A messy film that could have been a contender..., 3 Dec 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Hold Back the Night is a little-known British film whose premise could have resulted in a classic film- instead it comes across as evidence why one-off drama's are not made for TV anymore.

Directed by Philip Davis (a great actor), it tells the story of a girl (Charleen) on the run and the eco-warrior guy (Declan) she meets. The film opens like a female version of Naked- the lead character then finds herself in a pub, in a fight, running away with a dog to a site of eco-protest, going to her "Uncles", crossing paths with Sheila Hancock's dying Vera etc.

I love road movies- The Straight Story, Alice in the Cities, Les Valseuses, Wild Strawberries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Five Easy Pieces, Stroszek, most of Eureka etc. But this film does not come up to standard- this is more down to the writing than the acting: the character's are too close to caricature, events just happen and the whole back-story of incest is highly unconvincing (give me Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Close My Eyes or The Silence regarding dramatic use of this theme). Sheila Hancock's performance is great, though I think some Harold&Maude-style action should have gone on between her & Declan. The music is invasive, sounding like an advert for the sub-Morcheeba stylings of Grand Theft Audio. The camera-work is pedestrian, fine for TV like McReady & Daughter or Monarch of the Glen, terrible if this is supposed to be cinema (the dream sequence is pitiful, cliched stuff and we get no sense of the other/surreality of the concentric circles). Christine Tremarco's performance is close to irritating, quite brave (though full-frontal nudity was avoided by long-shot- unlike that in Merchant Ivory's A Room with a View!)- more down to inadequate characterisation by writer/director. The episode at her Uncle's is idiotic, the way that drugs don't appear to effect her in any way more so- how did something so half-written get produced? It seems Davis et al couldn't decide if this work was going to be one where the character leaves and transcends her previous existence (see Tom Twyker's Heaven) or one where she confronts her abuser (well, this is kind of done in the tidy resolution at the end). I think it should have focused on the former, then again in a film this pedestrian...

Hold Back the Night is watchable (just about) but could have been something- which is not something you can say about many British films. The British Film Industry (a misnomer, I know) should be making films in this direction- but with more art and more guts, regardless of box-office potential. A mess...

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