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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305428374 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305428379 Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 03, 1999 Running Time: 118 minutes Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: 1994 Sales Rank: 8988 MPN: D17376D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Meg Ryan (KATE AND LEOPOLD) and Robert Downey Jr. (WONDER BOYS) head a superb cast of stars in this stylish and provocative story of love, power, and seduction! Robert Merivel (Downey) is a young man who seems to have everything ... until a passionate affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless. But it's only after losing it all that Merivel discovers who he really is and -- with the love of a beautiful woman (Ryan) -- becomes the man he never dreamed he could be! Also featuring Sam Neill (JURASSIC PARK) and Hugh Grant (NOTTING HILL), this critically acclaimed and entertaining motion picutre won two 1995 Academy Awards(R) for Best Achievement in Art Direction and Costume Design. Amazon.com: A fantastic premise is utterly blown in this film by director Michael Hoffman and screenwriter Rupert Walters (the two collaborated previously on the winning Some Girls). Robert Downey Jr. plays Robert Merivel, King Charles II's (Sam Neill) spirited young physician in 17th-century England. The king offers to set Merivel up for life in exchange for one small favor: marry the royal mistress (Polly Walker) to provide his highness some cover for his philandering. But Merivel blows it by falling in love with the woman, and he is cast out of his pampered paradise to reinvent himself as a serious man helping victims of the plague beyond the palace's walls. It's a superb notion, and the film looks just terrific, particularly Charles's court, where scientific and artistic innovation flourishes. But somehow the story completely falls apart once Merivel goes on his quest for salvation. The scenes aren't there, the characters are underdeveloped, the drama is clunky. The whole enterprise feels as if an editor tried to salvage a major failure and barely came up with something coherent. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating: - RestorationI enjoyed this movie, though it took a while before the film came to have any meaning or direction. At first this movie seems like it will be a raunchy, drunken, orgy film with the main character, Robert Merivel, gaining acceptance into the royal household of King Charles II of England. A physician, he saves the king's dog then becomes a drunken boor at court. Chalres uses Robert for a dupe then Robert is cast out of court when he defies the king's wish. He ends up doctoring lunatics. ... Read More Rating:  - Interesting MovieRestoration, was an excellent movie, great cast, one I look forward to viewing again & again. Great DVD to add to my historical library collection. Rating: - RestorationWon 2 Academy awards, Restoration is Robert Downey at his best!!! Brilliant cast and story. Tragic with a happy ending, please don't miss this. Rating: - Surprisingly great!I loved living this period of history, which is not often portrayed, while watching this film. Much sadness and tragedy but a heartwarming ending. Rating: - Yes, it's beautiful, but it's more than thatBeyond the obligatory enthusiasm about the lush settings and costumes, this is a lovely full arc of character development. Robert Merivel enters as an immature, self-absorbed goofball, with an irrepressible spark of the man he could become glinting through the coating of muck. He gets dragged through a series of harsh refining situations and emerges with the dross burned off. The final act of restoration (and you thought that only referred to the historic time period) is a solid two-tissue moment. Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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