DVD

Les misérables / Columbia Pictures ; Mandalay Entertainment presents a Sarah Radclyffe production ; a James Gorman production ; a film by Bille August ; produced by Sarah Radclyffe and James Gorman ; screenplay by Rafael Yglesias ; directed by Bille August.

Radclyffe, Sarah, 1950- (producer.). Gorman, James, 1961- (producer.). August, Bille, 1948- (director.). Yglesias, Rafael, 1954- (screenwriter.). Neeson, Liam, (actor.). Rush, Geoffrey, 1951- (actor.). Thurman, Uma, (actor.). Danes, Claire, 1979- (actor.). Matheson, Hans, 1975- (actor.). Brynolfsson, Reine, 1953- (actor.). Vaughan, Peter, 1923-2016 (actor.). Persson, Jörgen, 1936- (cinematographer.). Billeskov Jansen, Janus, 1951- (film editor.). Poledouris, Basil, (composer.). Asp, Anna, 1946- (artistic director.). Pescucci, Gabriella, (costume designer.). Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Misérables. (Added Author). Columbia Pictures. (Added Author). Mandalay Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Liam Neeson (Jean Valjean), Geoffrey Rush (Inspector Javert), Uma Thurman (Fantine), Claire Danes (Cosette), Hans Matheson (Marius), Reine Brynolfsson (Captain Beauvais), Peter Vaughan (Bishop). (Cast).

Summary:

A generation after the French Revolution, Jean Valjean, having spent 20 years doing hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, is finally released, and his fortunes change after an encounter with a saintly Bishop. His new life, with success as a factory owner and mayor of a small town is threatened years later by the arrival of Inspector Javert, who was a guard in Valjean's prison and is now appalled to find a criminal leading the life of a gentleman. Valjean runs again, this time with Cosette, the small child of Fantine, a peasant who fell ill and died as a result of losing her job in Valjean's factory. Valjean raises Cosette as his own daughter in Paris, until she falls in love with Marius, a student revolutionary. Marius, son of a noble officer in Napoleon's army who had died at Waterloo, is at first an ardent champion of Bonapartism. But he evolves politically, risking his life for democracy during the Paris insurrection of 1832. Wounded at the barricades and facing certain death, he is saved by Valjean, who carries him to safety through the sewers of Paris, pursued by Javert, who succeeds in capturing Valjean at last.

Record details

ISBN: 076781505X
ISBN: 9780767815055
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Mandalay Entertainment, [2006]
Distributor: Culver City, CA : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the novel 'Les misérables' by Victor Hugo. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Jörgen Persson ; production designer, Anna Asp ; editor, Janus Billeskov-Jansen ; costume designer, Gabriella Pescucci ; music, Basil Poledouris.
Participant or Performer Note:	Liam Neeson (Jean Valjean), Geoffrey Rush (Inspector Javert), Uma Thurman (Fantine), Claire Danes (Cosette), Hans Matheson (Marius), Reine Brynolfsson (Captain Beauvais), Peter Vaughan (Bishop).
Target Audience Note:	MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, and for some sexual content.
System Details Note:	DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, 2.0 Dolby surround; widescreen presentation, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Language Note:	In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English or French; closed-captioned.