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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 11172
Released: July 1, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Enjoy the fun of this sexy comedy winner! At a luxurious lakeside resort, an attractive red-headed guest (Vanessa Redgrave -- THE PLEDGE; GIRL, INTERRUPTED) has her eye on a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt (Uma Thurman -- KILL BILL, VATEL), the mischievous redhead goes to outrageous lengths -- including a fling with a passionate younger man -- to reel in her wealthy catch! Filled with laughs and riotous comic confusion -- everyone's sure to love this delightfully sexy comedy!
A Month by the Lake Reviews:
A Month by the Lake 
2009-10-26 - a gentle story of expat life in Italy just prior to WWII - well acted by all.
Liked This Movie!
2009-10-14 - I liked this movie alot. Great acting and is a movie you will watch more than once.
Wonderful, heartwarming romance 
2009-10-11 - I love this movie and watch it again and again. (Eventually, I realized that I had to own it.) Vanessa Redgrave does such a great job of portraying an older woman who lives joyfully for the moment. Though she may have regrets for a lost love and her recently deceased father, this woman is contagiously happy. I would have preferred someone else to play the male lead. Edward M. Fox is so stiff. He does a wonderful job with the vulnerability of his character; a military and business man who has never had the time for romantic love and is now older and attracted to a much younger woman. He appears to be very uncomfortable with touching another person. But, that may be the character. The embrace at the end is very stiff and I feel uncomfortable for them both. Uma Thurman is the nanny; who appears to vastly overact her part, leading Fox's character on until he realizes how hopeless it is for an older man to pursue a young, immature, and superficial woman.
Vanessa's and Edward's characters are staying at a hotel on Lake Como in northern Italy before the beginning of WWII. She has just lost her beloved father, whom she lived with for decades and vacationed with every summer at the Lake. He is taking perhaps the first vacation of his adult life; leaving his engineering firm in England in the hands of others for the first time. Both are unmarried and appear to like each other. But, they would have separated and never met again, if a temporary American nanny who is also staying at the hotel had not interfered.
It is a delightful romp of arguments, competition, jealousy, and love; reminding me of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn films. But, Edward Fox is definitely no Spencer Tracy.
The Best 92 Minutes You'll spend in a Long Time
2009-01-15 - I'm baffled by some of the negative reviews. It escapes me how anyone can not be enthralled with this splendid production. The story, the acting, the setting are first rate. Of course if you've not reached or passed middle age, one can understand how viewers may be put off by the pace of the movie and the oblique dialogue that says more by its understatement and passivity. For capturing the tension that exists between two unattached and seemingly different personalities who are confronting aging and loneliness, Fox and Redgrave give hallmark performances.Thurman also adds much to triangular relationship that addresses the folly of a young coquette enticing then ridiculing an older man. This is a classic that can be enjoyed over and over. There is something to be gleaned from each of its perfect ninety-two minutes running time. This sleeper is a keeper.
My all time favorite movie
2008-10-09 - This one of my favorite movies. I could watch it over and over just to see the scenery. I love how hospitable the the hotel is, you wish you could stay there too.
Oh yeah its not real!
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