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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: BBC Warner
Salesrank: 2644
Released: April 18, 2006 |
| Our Price: $8.62 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Deemed nouveau riche and shunned by elitist New York society, sisters Nan and Virginia St. George, along with their friends Lizzy Elmsworth and Conchita Closson (Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino), try their luck in London. The girls' New World spontaneity and impertinence constitute nothing less than a social invasion of Old World society and they soon find themselves courted by a coterie of fascinated admirers. But as the old and new worlds come to clash, something has to give.
Description of The Buccaneers:
As four young American women find their way through the labyrinthine social world of 1870s England, their fortunes rise--and sometimes, with brutal abruptness, fall. Based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, this lavish BBC production follows Nan and Virginia St. George (Carla Gugino, Spy Kids, and Alison Elliott, The Spitfire Grill), two American sisters who follow their friend Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite), a Brazilian bad girl who marries a dissolute British lord, to England in search of aristocratic husbands--partly due to the influence of their canny governess, Laura Testvalley (Cherie Lunghi, Excalibur). The Buccaneers has a good dose of the delicious satirical wit to be found in many BBC dramas, but tempered by the presence of the naive American girls, who find themselves trapped by the very things they thought they wanted. Though mocked by some critics for its heaving bosoms and towering hairdos, the five-part series stealthily paints a sometimes devastating portrait of women's lives. When Idina Hatton (Jenny Agutter, Logan's Run), the older lover of the aimless Lord Seadown (Mark Tandy, Shackleton), learns that Seadown is going to marry the young and lovely Virginia, it's a heartbreaking moment, yet one that isn't overdone. The Buccaneers is full of such gracefulness--Wharton observes the fickle turns of life in society with a judicious eye, empathizing with the pain but never losing sight of the hard realities of money and marriage. In a strong cast, Gugino particularly shines; with her round, rosy cheeks and expressive eyes, she makes a smart yet vulnerable heroine. --Bret Fetzer
The Buccaneers Reviews:
Good Movie 
2009-10-05 - Very good movie lots of drama, plots to follow, just a note its very long 6+ hours
the buccaneers
2009-09-22 - I loved it!!! This is a beautifully made BBC series. Top notch all the way. The actors and scenery are perfection.
Not a Jane Austen kind of film 
2009-09-03 - If you enjoy the kind of period pieces with happy endings, high morals, and the heroine and other principal characters emerging mostly unscathed at the end of the narrative, this is not the film for you. I only wish I had read the reviews before purchasing this film but I didn't want to spoil the movie before seeing it. In my opinion the movie spoiled itself. I stopped in the middle, read the reviews and now plan to get rid of it. I was surprised by some of the movie's content which without a rating I was completely caught off-guard by. The movie would probably be rated at least PG-13 in America. Some might feel this movie only accurately reflects life and its many compromises and disappointments but, whatever the case, this film's take on life was not to my liking and I did not enjoy it, definitely not an upbuilding film.
This was just ok 
2009-08-20 - Some of the acting (Mira Sorvino)WAS AWFUL especially her fake accent other parts were good
A disgusting disappointment
2009-08-04 - I thought this would be one of those wonderful BBC movies like Wives and Daughters, but what a disappointment! The first two episodes weren't that bad, but when I got to the third one I had to stop watching it because of a very disgusting sex scene. Definetly not family friendly or anyone friendly for that matter. I would definetly not recommend it.
