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  • Actors: Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson, Robert Lindsay, Emily Blunt, Ronni Ancona
  • Directors: Stephen Poliakoff
  • Format: PAL
  • 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: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Feb 2006
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000CFX5FU
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,634 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Gideon Warner is a hugely successful public relations consultant to the wealthy, to politicians, to businessmen and rising starlets. Their hair, their clothes, where they go and with who - Gideon advises them on everything. With all his skills, he is the perfect man to package the Millennium celebrations and sell them to the rest of the world. But disillusioned with the world in which he works and increasingly concerned over the growing distance between him and his daughter, Gideon takes less and less notice of his business, just as clients seem to want him more and more. He clings to his slowly flourishing relationship with Stella - a mother grieving for her dead son - as his world spins further out of control. Only together can they make it stop...

Special Features
CAST INTERVIEWS; PHOTO GALLERY; STEPHEN POLIAKOFF INTERVIEW

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous, 10 Mar 2007
By Paul Bjorkstedt "bookman" (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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Just a beautiful film about what we human beings take for granted and what really matters. This film was recently presented to a swedish audience and I'm so grateful for that cause I truly believe my life is the richer for it.
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12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The network airing of Gideon's Daughter, 27 Feb 2006
I had not planned any television viewing, nor when watching the story had I expected to be taken along with the storyline - however, before long I was settled before the screen wishing for commercial breaks only because I needed a drink and admittedly now did not want to miss anything.... Having said that, I feel I will be getting this title upon availability - I became enthralled and in no way perturbed or mis-directed by a cast of well known faces.
The story seen as a family affair with the familiar intrusion of work - here on a grand scale as the character Gideon is a wealthy magnate - is enthralling, Gideon's daughter Natasha has her story told as it is throughout by the character played by Robert Lyndsay, narrating to an agency temp and with parallels in his own life, the seamless blend of plot and narration with such heart-wrenching moments as would crush any caring parent is enough to pen a review, buy the dvd and watch it again and again - it is inspirational and draws from real news footage making it a study along a factual historical sequence of events..., it is a highly personable outing and for those who would have to know what to prepare for - I would suggest settling in for an intriguing tale expecting to find feelings they hold dear tuning in with them to fully appreciate the emotional content. It does not twist or turn or buck and sway but tells the story with affection and leaves the viewer wanting to know their part, feeling somewhat embroiled as one would expect when the news footage recalls events we are all familiar with...

Quite gripping stuff.

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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Pointless, 20 May 2008
By lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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When Gideon's Daughter was first broadcast, one of the newspaper reviewers described it cruelly but accurately as a story about a guy who thinks that there's something wrong with his daughter, but she turns out to be fine.

Somehow, Stephen Poliakoff has emerged from the back of the field to become British television's most commissioned, most prestigious and incidentally most expensive television writer. This is an impressive feat for someone who can't devise dramatic (or even halfway plausible) stories, who can't write dialogue that even faintly resembles the way human beings speak, and who has absolutely no visible sense of humour. How he did it, I'm not sure. One reason is that most of the great British television dramatists are either dead, retired or out of the loop, so Poliakoff rises to the top by default, just because he's been doing it longer than most.

I watched Gideon's Daughter with initial scepticism, having patiently sat through its companion piece, the preposterous Friends and Crocodiles, in the thwarted hope that I might finally understand why Stephen Poliakoff still gets commissioned. My scepticism turned to disbelief and anger as it dawned on me and my viewing companions that the story was going absolutely nowhere, and that fine actors of the quality of Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt were being wasted in a half-written piece of pretentious tosh.

This DVD has two stars, and they belong to the actors. But when you put good actors in a bad story, you end up with a bad film. Poliakoff's reputation is a mystery to me and literally everyone I know who has watched his stuff. Writers such as Paul Abbott, Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat have more talent in their memory sticks than Poliakoff has displayed over the course of a long and depressing career. Among the dead and inactive, writers like Dennis Potter, Troy Kennedy Martin and Roy Minton all wrote greater things than Poliakoff has ever attempted. But somebody up there (in the BBC, that is) must like him.

If you love his stuff, what can I say? You'll probably love this too. Good luck to you.
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