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Title: It depends on your audience but...
Review: The DVD starts with the warning that the film is old and the DVD has not been cleaned up in any way. Gee..it would help if that warning was right next to the title on Amazon. Some scenes were hardly visible onscreen. As an adult, I could appreciate some of the scenes and look past the murky audio and blurry visuals, but I dreaded even attempting to show this to my eleventh grade students. They HATED it! It was an interesting interpretation for its time, but the part where Peyton runs toward his wife and runs toward his wife and runs toward his wife and...ad nauseum...it looks like a 60s hair commercial. "The closer she gets the better she looks." I know what the director was trying to do, and it may have worked back then, but my kids, were moaning, "Come ON, already!" It's worth a look if you have some film students who will appreciate the effects and directorial choices, but do not buy this in hopes of clarifying the original story for your high school students.
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