Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
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November 7, 2009watched it high and was really in2 it. I love the music doh, it made da movie so much better. Natalie Portman was Baaaaaaaaad! I love dat bitch. da supporting cast was so much better den da main cast.
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November 3, 2009I'm relatively new to these English historical dramas, but I've seen enough to know a good one after I've watched it. The Other Boleyn Girl is pretty good, but it suffers from overly simplistic and two-dimensional characters.
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October 25, 2009Excellent cast and based on a true story about two sisters who are pawned by their family into the Kings' court to bed King Henry VIII and produce a heir to the throne. The King breaks with the Catholic church when his wife, the Queen cannot give him an heir, in order to marry An...( read more)
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March 15, 2009Pretty good. For adult only because it contains scenes unsuitable for kids. All the business about court, not an epic but a period like drama about Henry VIII s son and so on and so on.
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October 30, 2009Travell back to the past in British History and King Henry VIII. Thomas and Elizabeth Boleyn (Rylance and Scott Thomas) have a problem: Elizabeth's brother (Morrissey) has suggested they offer eldest daughter Anne (Portman) as mistress to King Henry VIII (Bana), thereby guarante...( read more)
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October 27, 2009very good, i really enjoy all the performances and the well-selected cast! the story is a real one it is within the limits of what truly happened back then!!
The wardrobe was amazing all those fantastic dresses! just loved them, it's quite entertaining! -
Critic Reviews
February 29, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
February 29, 2008
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
After covering much of its ground at a stylish canter, The Other Boleyn Girl finishes at a plod. full review
February 29, 2008
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
The Other Boleyn Girl is an agreeable piece of filmmaking, carefully and sometimes artfully balancing solemnity with fluff. full review
February 29, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
However embarrassed you might feel in the morning, this in an enjoyable movie with an entertaining angle on a hard-to-resist period of history. full review
February 29, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
A genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust. full review
February 29, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
The film's seduction is all too obvious to ravish anyone. full review
February 28, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The film moves in frustrating herks and jerks. What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit. full review
February 27, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Portman, Johansson and Bana may be hot, but they can't light a match next to the emotional fireworks of Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Shaw. full review
February 25, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
And what of these young American actresses' putting on British accents to vie for the king? They seem, at first, like coeds in a college production of The Importance of Being Earnest, but once the dis... full review
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March 31, 2009It was a pretty sad movie
but the story was diffrent in Intresting way.
it's a movie about betrayal between a Family..
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January 1, 2009Okay...I have read some of your reviews and have just watched the movie myself...i liked it!!! Although i have never read the book..i didnt know there was one, untill about 3 seconds ago.
To all the people out there who read the book...NEVER WATCH THE MOVIES AND EXPECT THE SAME THING!!!! a book is a paticular thing...you see what YOU want to see how it is written! No one ever see's it the same way! A director then takes a good or great idea and TRYS to turn it into a 2 hour vision....HIS OR HER VISION...NOT YOURS...so STOP COMPARING THEM AND ENJOY THE FREAKIN THING FOR WHAT IT IS....A MOVIE...and if it is slightly interesting to you READ THE BOOK....I have never seen a movie/book that has been as good as the other...very very very....few have even come close to the real thing.
But again saying this: The movie was worth seeing once and if your up to it...find and read the book...if you have the time! 4 stars from me! -
July 16, 2008the film was ok. have read the book and expected the film to be fabulous as well. It was alright,however the book is much better.
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July 10, 2008WOW I almost cried at how much it was bas compared to the book. THE BOOK WAS AMAZING, bu this? This was a joke.
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July 1, 2008
i enjoyed the film a lot, the book is obviously better but if you just look at the film as a seperate thingyou can see how amzing it is.
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May 7, 2008it totally ruined the story!! especially since i read the book i was expecting more. i personally think the movie was too short. the freaking book was bigger than a harry potter book!
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March 18, 2008ok so this really has nothing to do with the acutal move. But it does have something to do with the theme. (if you are reading this pease dont stop and help andswer my question it is of high importance) so here it is:
Do any of you know how and or where to get clips of music that was listened to durring the time that anne boleyn really lived? You know queen elizabeth and king henry the eighth!!! Please i need this for an assignment which sucks!! anything will help im having no luck. this is a last resort!! thanks lots of love
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March 14, 2008Christinewannabe47 - This isn't actually a series, Gregory wrote The Other Boylen Girl well before any of her other Tudor books. Her series is called Wideacre. Although I've yet to read Wideacre, i have read all her Tudor books, and her one on slave trading, and they are all fabulous.
Personally I think the movie ruined the book. It completely misrepresented the relationships between ALL characters, left out countless important plot points, and just well sucked. Plus it totally missed the point that Mary is The Other Boleyn Girl! It made out Anne was. We've always known about Anne Mary's the forgotten Boleyn Girl, We even know more about Little Kitty Howard, and Mary's daughter with Henry (who was by the way not included in the movie) then we do about Mary herself... So how could they misinterpret that Mary was the other Boleyn Girl? And they ruined George who i adored!
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