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The Phantom of the Opera (Widescreen Edition) starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver directed by: Joel Schumacher  List Price: $12.98 Your Price: $8.99 You Save: $3.99 (31%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: BUTLER,GERARD EAN: 9780790795393 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790795396 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 03, 2005 Running Time: 141 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 2005 Sales Rank: 1979 MPN: 085393895129 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A mad and disfigured musician hides out in the dungeons under the Paris Opera where he falls in love with a young singer and lures her to his hiding place. Genre: Musicals Rating: PG13 Release Date: 6-SEP-2005 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Although it's not as bold as Oscar darling Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera continues the resuscitation of the movie musical with a faithful adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster stage musical. Emmy Rossum glows in a breakout role as opera ingénue Christine Daae, and if phantom Gerard Butler isn't Rossum's match vocally, he does convey menace and sensuality in such numbers as "The Music of the Night." The most experienced musical theater veteran in the cast, romantic lead Patrick Wilson, sings sweetly but seems wooden. The biggest name in the cast, Minnie Driver, hams it up as diva Carlotta, and she's the only principal whose voice was dubbed (though she does sing the closing-credit number, "Learn to Be Lonely," which is also the only new song). Director Joel Schumacher, no stranger to visual spectacle, seems to have found a good match in Lloyd Webber's larger-than-life vision of Gaston LeRoux's Gothic horror-romance. His weakness is cuing too many audience-reaction shots and showing too much of the lurking Phantom, but when he calms down and lets Rossum sings "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" alone in a silent graveyard, it's exquisite.
DVD Features The special edition of The Phantom of the Opera has two major extras. "Behind the Mask: The Story of The Phantom of the Opera" is an hourlong documentary tracing the genesis of the stage show, with interviews of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Harold Prince, producer Cameron Macintosh, lyricists Richard Stilgoe and Charles Hart, choreographer Gillian Lynne, and others. Conspicuously absent are stars Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford. Both do appear in video clips, including Brightman performing with Colm Wilkinson at an early workshop, and Crawford is the subject of a casting segment. Other brief scenes from the show are represented by a 2001 production. The other major feature is the 45-minute making-of focusing on the movie, including casting and the selection of director Joel Schumacher Both are well-done productions by Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group. The deleted scene is a new song written by Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart, "No One Would Listen," sung by the Phantom toward the end of the movie. It's a beautiful song that, along with Madame Giry's story, makes him a more sympathetic character. But because that bit of backstory already slowed down the ending, it was probably a good move to cut the song. --David Horiuchi More on The Phantom of the Opera
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 Rating:  - Buy this DVD and save your theater ticket money!I have gone to the theater every time this play came to the area I was living in and loved it every time. But, this DVD added so much more to my understanding of the play, and the singing is simply the best! Rating: - Stunning!Excellent attempt in transitioning from the stage to the screen....a monumental showpiece and worthy of a musical DVD library. The Blu-ray copy is brilliant to the eye and stunning to the ear. At the very least, one gets a glimpse of why this particular production holds the all-time record for continuous Broadway and London performances. Rating: - FantasticThis is the second copy that I have purchased...unfortunately my daughter loved the DVD so well that I was forced to relinquish my copy. The acting and production reminds me of the Broadway presentation. Fortunately, I now can be reminded of the Broadway performance at my convenience with this rendition. Rating: - Phantom - a masterpiece!!!This production definitely does justice to Weber's creation - Well worth the cost for any Phantom phan!!!! Keep it in my CD player constantly! Rating:  - spookykid certainly scared me!The product came late, and it was defective. Unable to play it on my DVD, I tried it on the computer, where it did fine. If the problem is my DVD player, it would stand to reason that other DVDs would not play in it. This was not the case. However, I am willing to give the seller the benefit of the doubt on this--and I am beginning to actually prefer VHS to DVD--VHS is more likely to be error-free, and DVD--even brand-new--is getting to be a roll of the dice. What bugged me most, though, was ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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