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  • Actors: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans, Alexandra Aitken, Susan Lynch
  • Directors: Roger Michell
  • Format: 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: 18
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 11 April 2005
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007KVCP0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,696 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A red hot-air balloon floating gracefully over the green English countryside leads to a shocking death in Enduring Love, an eerie and hypnotic movie based on a novel by Ian McEwan. Two men tried and failed to help, and afterwards Joe (Daniel Craig, Sylvia, The Mother) finds himself being stalked by the hungry-eyed Jed (Rhys Ifans, Vanity Fair, Human Nature). Like a gangly wraith, Jed follows Joe and begs him to recognize the passionate love Jed feels certain was sparked by the balloon accident. Jed's obsession crawls into Joe's head and his life, clawing at his happy relationship with his girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Morvern Callar, Minority Report) and derailing Joe into an obsessive spiral of his own. Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Craig and Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer


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While enjoying a romantic picnic in the English countryside, Joe (Daniel Craig) and Claire (Samantha Morton) become party to a tragic accident involving a hot air balloon. Haunted by the incident, and guilt-stricken that he wasn't able to do more, Joe begins to distance himself from Claire. But more disturbing is the behaviour of Jed (Rhys Ifans), another stranger who lent a hand during the accident and begins stalking Joe. At first, Joe thinks that Jed is just suffering from posttraumatic stress and needs to talk about what they've been through together. But with each encounter, as Jed admonishes Joe to let go and admit his feelings, Joe feels more and more uneasy, confused and irritated. This psychological thriller from director Roger Michell (NOTTING HILL) explores how one experience can affect many people in different ways while also examining the subtleties of love and relationships. Craig is superb as Joe, a natural-born leader and rational college professor whose life is turned upside down both by his inability to prevent the accident, and by his interactions with Jed. Ifans is super creepy as the disturbed stalker, a far cry from his turn as the loveable goof Spike in NOTTING HILL.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars This isn't 'Enduring Love', 1 Aug 2006
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First of all this is a an OK thriller. But this isn't Enduring Love. All of the science and reasons for Parry's obsession are extracted, an extra character is added for absolutely no reason, the end of the book is changed to a happy crowd-pleasing affair so you're eventually left with an alright thriller with vaguely homophobic overtones. It's a shame really, as Craig makes for a magnificent Joe Rose, Rhys Ifans is wonderfulyl creepy as Jed Parry, and the direction is good. Like a said, an OK thriller, but not Enduring Love.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars We can't let go of our illusions., 9 Jan 2006
Condensing 200 odd pages of deep philosophical McKewen themes into a 90 minute film is no easy task, and judging from many of the reviews both online and offline that tend to see this as just as another mediocre thriller about pyschological obsession, one might think that Roger Michell has failed miserably in his task.

Bar the ending, the film adaptation certainly follows the Ian McKewan book quite faithfully, with the minor changes that have been made, such as Joe becoming a published academic who teaches his students that love is simply a darwinian trick to get us to copulate, designed seemingly to stress the key issues of the original novel - can man live guided only by a scientific understanding of himself and the world, and would such a life in fact be worth living?

These conundrums are expressed in the film sometimes a little too obviously to the point of crudeness (the camera zooms in and out of focus from a dazed Jed to a bunch of ripe apples). But the consequences of eating from forbidden fruit of knowledge, the letting go of innocent and empty illusions and the resulting madness and chaos, are brought to life on the whole superbly, especially in the opening of the film, pure McKewen of course, but in Michell's cinematic evocation of it, simply unforgettable. As Joe lets go of the doctor, the boy and the balloon, just as he has let go of the safe and contented predictablity of everyday faith in the world, its love and its meanings, he discovers that only unpredictable tragedy ensues.

And yet this film, a little like the novel, never quite becomes the classic that you feel it could and should have been. Despite this, it remains a well crafted, admirably acted and, so long as you don't try to understand the apparently confusing plot as a simple thriller, a film with lots of rewarding meaning to extract.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, it didn't live up to the novel, 22 Oct 2005
I studied Ian McEwan's 'Enduring Love' as part of my A Level English Literature course and I loved the novel. The descriptions were excellent and the jammed packed action kept me reading on. However a lot of the key events were missed out of the film, making the overall viewing slow and uneventful. If they had included more scenes such as the resturaunt shooting, the visits to the police station and Joe's purchase of the gun, It could have been a great movie!!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish
The film is nothing like the book and anyone watching the film without knowing the story line of the book is missing out. Buy the book instead.
Published 5 months ago by Mr M Bather

4.0 out of 5 stars Striking but not as enduring as the original.

Enduring Love [DVD] [2004]

On a positive note, the film's cinematography is both stunning, captivating, and alone makes the film worth watching. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mark Jeffery

1.0 out of 5 stars Read the book instead
If you are interested by the plot synopsis read the book instead (Enduring Love). It has much more depth which cannot be shown on film. Read more
Published 12 months ago by N. Lavender

4.0 out of 5 stars Ok. Not a blockbuster but watchable
I read the book twice, once around ten years ago and then again a couple of weeks ago. I enjoyed the book a lot and was really looking forward to the movie. Read more
Published 22 months ago by IanE

1.0 out of 5 stars awkward & unconvincing
The novel has a marvellous first chapter, after which it descends into pretentious tedium. The film, as a whole, is cringe-makingly bad. (Note the sub-Hitchockian score.)
Published 24 months ago by Dominic Swayne

1.0 out of 5 stars Inconsequential luvvie fest
Central performances verge on the cringe-making at times which is unforgiveable with content like this. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Cakeman

1.0 out of 5 stars An inadequate adaptation.
It baffles me that a film director would take this wonderful novel of ideas and produce such a travesty. I hated this film and was unable to endure it to the end. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2007 by D. Cottam

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! Really, really exceptional!
This really is a fantastic film. It really helps a lot if you haven't read the book. I read the 'Eragon' book shortly before going to see the film, which was a big mistake,... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2007 by J. Smith

1.0 out of 5 stars Enduring Boredom . . .
Don't get me wrong. I tried to like the film. I tried not to fall asleep during those long, boring shots that added nothing to the film and were completely irrelevant to the book... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2007 by C. Downes

3.0 out of 5 stars Pros and Cons
There are plenty of reasons to watch this film. For one, Craig's performance as a man who finds his life coming apart at the seams as he struggles with guilt, a failing love and... Read more
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