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Summary: As expected
Comment: The DVD was just as expected. It was way too pricey for a DVD, but it came as no suprise. Shipping was way too much to.
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Summary: Great
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This is such a wonderful mini series and thanks to Amazon I was able to purchase it at a great price. Anyone who hasn't seen it needs to rent it, then they will want to own it. Get it at a great price thru Amazon!
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Summary: A Classic
Comment: I watched this mini series in the 80s. I loved it then and even more so now. This movie is a classic. It spans over forty years to portray a love story that could never be between an ambitious priest and a love-struck girl. Barbara Stanwyck gave the performance of her life. She was awesome and a key figure in this sage of love, neglect, favoritism, religion, and ambition.
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Summary: Dramatic, romantic, so unique
Comment: I really, really love this miniseries! I can't get enough of it. Its so unique and interesting and oh so romantic! It is one of my absolute favorites forever! I am reading the book also! Watch it and read it! You don't know what you are missing!
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Summary: THE ENDING MADE NO SENSE
Comment: Overall well produced TV series and I watched intently with many emotions of passion, heartache, compassion, and joy for characters portrayed. The Stanwyk character was deplorable esp. with the line: on my mouth! YIKES!!! The aging process was well done for Cardinal Vittorio, Ralph, Grandma Fi, BUT Meggie looks more gorgeous every year, esp. the last scene, they tried to grey her hair, tho unevenly, during the same scene and nary a wrinkle....no biggie compared to her whisper yelling and flat dialogue, but very beautiful woman...Justine was prolly the worst cast in the series, waaay too wooden for a bohemian, maladjusted, wild child, head movements were even too stilted and not pretty enough to be Meggie's daughter...Dane portrayed the deepest expression of character as supported by the other family members and was very touching. I could not believe that his two good looking uncles stayed unmmarried, very strange...and the young Meghan had too mature dialogue for believability, with her bold questions and observations that nary an adult would deliver or even have elevated critical thinking skills during that era....apologies for my stream of consciousness review here but thankfully not a PhD thesis...also, never understood the reasons for not telling Ralph about Dane 'cept for the heart wrenching reveal at the end which IMHO was theee best scene in the series...great crying jag Richard!!! I cried too....anyhow, my biggest dissapointment was the ending with Ralph decrying that "WE always go for it" (?) i.e. the thorn bird's sole joy of life or something to that effect when I felt that is the last thing either of them did....Ralph especially, he fought that "song" to his death, and loved the inital description of the Thorn Bird myth but never saw the parallel in the series....nice try but would have liked him to reject the church and had his final days with Meggie and fade out TRYING to be that Thorn Bird but failing....well, I know Aussies and back then they must have treated their women worse than they do now....Bryan Brown was delightful but character development flawed with the devotion and conviction of needing a woman and love to... how can I impress the wankers cutting cane???...they just didn't flesh out a believable character, And what is up with the D. H. Lawrence and Henry Miller references? Lady Chatterly's Lover is so out of place for a cripple, 50's mentality, Australlia, and farmer IQ types...did Colleen try to impress the audience with her breadth of literary repertoire? so to wrap up....I watched every episode, sometimes twice, and worked my schedule around this series as I had not seen it since 1983 after reading the book...I rarely do this and my friends razzed me about it but I was hoping for a recapture of my life 25 years ago, but what I found is a deeper understanding of loss, patiently waiting for love, and how to overcome adversity, kudos for the enjoyment but had to comment on my issues with the production. And oh yeah, Dr. Kildare was still a major hottie!!!
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