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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 8567
Released: June 12, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
As a young girl living in the remote mountains of Colorado, Vivian (Bruckner) watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. Vivian survived the attack by running into the woods and changing into a wolf. Ten years later, Vivian is living a relatively safe and normal life in Bucharest, Romania. Vivian spends her days working in a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city’s underground clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe, and his gang of delinquents he refers to as "The Five."
Vivian’s life begins to unravel when she has a chance encounter with Aiden (Dancy), an artist researching Bucharest’ ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel. Aiden pursues Vivian until she relents and begins to see him, but she can’t bring herself to tell him the truth - and lives in fear of showing him who she really is. Even though Vivian has sworn never to kill, she is as much an animal as she is human, and her love for Aiden threatens to cast him to the very wolves who saved her life and who are waiting for their chance to hunt him as prey.
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Description of Blood & Chocolate:
When graphic novelist Aiden (Hugh Dancy) travels to Bucharest to research the loup garou legend, he nearly gets devoured in the latest female werewolf film, Blood and Chocolate. In the tradition of Werewolf Woman and Ginger Snaps, Blood and Chocolate stars Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner), a girl who's forced to face her lupine tendencies in order to discover how capable of loving Aiden she really is. Based on a book by Annette Curtis Clause, the film chronicles the lives of the remaining loup garou who are an extended Romanian family waiting for their pack leader, Gabriel, to select his new mate. His desire for Vivian means trouble when her wish to be with Aiden results in her revealing too much about the clan's secretive lifestyle. In this film, werewolves look fully human until their eyes glow with colored contact lenses while they fly through the air to then land as full-fledged wolves. Gone are the days, apparently, of films showing the transformation in all its hairy, explosive detail. A lack of scenes describing the werewolf metamorphosis make this film more a love story than a monster tale, though two forest gatherings in which the loup garou hunt human sacrifices offer some grizzly satisfaction. Unlike the aforementioned femme werewolf films, Blood and Chocolate features a girl fighting her urge to kill in a bid to unite humans with her brethren, making this movie the most peaceful in its genre. With a tame wolf as protagonist, the potential nightmare is really just a pleasant dream to unite the two disparate worlds. The question is: Do we want that to happen? --Trinie Dalton
Blood & Chocolate Reviews:
Great quality 
2009-10-20 - Sent as a gift, i have heard nothing negative about the quality, so i am assuming it is wonderful!
If you can accept that this movie is nothing like the book... 
2009-08-11 - ...than you just might like it.
When I first watched this film in theatres, I was totally shocked. The plot of the book, Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus, had been changed until it was almost unrecognizable. In the book, readers were introduced to Vivanne, the beautiful werewolf who wasn't sure whether she wanted to fit in with her normal classmates, most especially with Aidan her love interest, or join her fellow weres and become mate to alpha wolf Gabriel. The movie carries the same conflict but the circumstances, the character's personalities, the outcome and even the setting and plot were different from the book. The producers made A LOT of changes for the big screen.
But the main question for me was this; were the changes that the producers of this movie made unsatisfying?
Now that it's been a while and I've watched the movie again, I think I can say that not all of them were exactly. The book Blood and Chocolate carried a rather disturbing message that staying with your own kind, even when your own kind weren't so great, was the best way to go but the movie is more of a blending of accepting others and recognizing the good in your fellows. A better message, I think.
That said, I can only give this film three stars because the story, the soundtrack and the graphics were not well done. Strictly B, maybe even C, level stuff. Still, if you haven't read the book, Blood and Chocolate or you did and you didn't like it much, you might want to check out this movie. If, however, you really like the book, stay away!
Doesn't hold up to the book 
2009-06-27 - I read the book when it came out years ago, but read it again for the sake of the movie. I had a feeling the movie wasn't going to live up to it just from the trailers, so I waited this long, til it was on TV, to watch it.
This story was soo childish it was sad. The was the "rules" worked pretty much screwed them from the beginning. One man shouldn't be allowed to have all the power over soo many people. He especially shouldn't be allowed to "have" someone that doesn't even want him. What I kept waiting for was for Vivian to actually defy Gabriel, tell him she wouldn't lay with him even if he forced her to be his mate. But she stayed soo nervous, for no good reason. And why did all those werewolves follow him anyway? I mean if Gabriel wasn't soo intent on having things his way, none of the fighting would have happened.
All in all, it felt like a waste of time.
Read the book - want to see the movie? 
2009-06-21 - After reading the book (which by the way was quite good), discovered the movie version, while I was a bit unsure (the synopsis for the movie seemed that it was a bit of a departure from the book), I thought, why not give it a go, unfortunately except for the fact the female lead in both the book & movie have the same name & turn into a werewolf, and the other characters have the same names, it was so loosely based on the book, as to be almost non-existant. As werewolf movies go its a tad lame, but kinda OK, but if you liked the book & hope to see the movie expecting the same, basically don't bother.
Don't Bother
2009-06-15 - I loved the book. It didn't turn out like you would have expected, and I loved it for that.
The movie, on the other hand, made the whole story boring, predictable, and utterly retarded. It pretty much neutered the passion and vitality that made the book so incredible.
Even as a stand-alone movie (setting aside comparisons with the book), this movie was ridiculous. Bad acting, poor scripting, and passionless dialogue painted a horrible low-budget snoozefest that you'll have a hard time getting into.
