Enchanted April

Enchanted April (1992)

Genres - Romance, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Period Film  |   Release Date - Jul 31, 1992 (USA)  |   Run Time - 90 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom  |   MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a bottomless reserve of brilliant dialogue. Two cloistered, married English women (Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson) impulsively rent an Italian villa and embark upon a vacation without their spouses. They are joined by two other ladies: the high-flown aging widow Joan Plowright, and elegant upper-crust beauty Polly Walker) whom they've never met. Under the spell of an exotic new location, the foursome are in for quite a few life-altering experiences, many of them amusing, and not a few very surprising. Impeccably accurate in its recreation of European manners and mores in the 1920s, Enchanted April is sheer bliss from fade-in to fade-out.

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Italy, vacation, villa, widow/widower, wife, women, writing