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Tumbledown [DVD] [1988]

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  • Actors: Colin Firth
  • Directors: Richard Broke, Richard Eyre
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Mar 2007
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MGB0VK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,863 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Produced in 1989, a mere seven years after the Falklands War, Tumbledown was extremely controversial at the time of transmission but became a ratings winner nonetheless. Based on the experiences of the Royal Scots Guard Lieutenant, Robert Lawrence, it covered his military training, the fateful action he saw in the Falklands conflict and the aftermath of the terrible injuries which he sustained. Starring Colin Firth (Pride and Prejudice).

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5.0 out of 5 stars All is not always great in love & war., 23 April 2007
This is a television film that has been in the BBC archives for nearly twenty years due to its rather unflattering portrayal of a war that we in Britain have always been led to believe was nothing other than a roaring success, one final crusade of a winding down British Empire.

Tumbledown not only charts the battle for Tumbledown mountain by the Scots Guards on the outskirts of the Flaklands capital Port Stanley, but also gives a fantastic and well scripted insight into the life, courage and boyhood soldier fantasies of a young officer, Robert Lawrence MC.

Revolving around memories expressed during a lunch in the country, it becomes clear very quickly that Lawrence is a stubborn and proud character that a young Colin Firth manages to carry off extremely well, almost unrecognisable from most of his more modern day movie roles. His memories are backed up and sometimes argued by one of his fellow officer chums also at the lunch.

Starting at the point of Lawrence sustaining his horrific head wounds, the film begins with the whole build up to the Task Force setting sail for the Falkland Islands and the eventual call up of Lawrence and his beloved Scots Guards to the war that many thought would never actually take place.

Over the next two hours you are taken deep into Firth's character Robert Lawrence as his boyhood fantasies of what war should be like are brought to a sudden and bloddy halt as he recieves a gun shot wound to the head on top of Tumbledown Mountain. His subsequent recovery is a slow and difficult process that a proud Lawrence finds irratable and hard to accept. His injuries produce an army officer who is bitter and unaccepting that he will most likely never lead his men again, and whilst his parents do everything in their power to aid him to a full recovery he loses his casual girlfriend and constantly feels guilt over not being back in the Falklands with his fellow soldiers.

It is clear that Lawrence was a charismatic officer who lead his platoon with distinction earning him the Military Cross, but his dogged determination to make a full recovery, constantly costs him socially as he rubs doctors and as mentioned his close friends and family up the wrong way.

The film concludes with you feeling sorry for Lawrence's prediciment but he is clear by the end that it wasn't worth it, just for the chance to live out some boyhood dream of fighting for Queen and Country. He has come to accept what has happened and has matured greatly from his experience.

This is a film that leaves you very aware that for every glorious military action there is a harsh reaction for those involved. All is not always great in love and war.

The battle scenes are realistic and transport you in a documentary style as if you were there during his flashbacks.

A great British war film that will now in its DVD format hopefully be recognised for the excellent bit of film making that it is.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Colin firth great actor, 30 Dec 2008
By J. Di Petrillo (italy) - See all my reviews
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I worked at BBC when this movie was made and even screened the TX prints.
The film brilliantly acted by Colin Firth, although you have no real pity for his real life character an arogant nasty man. I advise you all to watch the movie Iluminados por el fuego (Blessed for fire) to see how life was on other side of the fence. I think I would have shot him even if I had been fighting for england.lol.
Malvinas son argentinas siempre
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great drama, 20 May 2009
By Jim-Jim (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
The Falklands was by no means a "bloodless" war and this goes a long way to putting that right, as we see the effects it had on the men of those who fought in it, embodied by Firth's character. Very moving but never maudlin, this is definitely one not to be missed.
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