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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1992 DVD Release: 05/05/2009 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Miramax Members Wishing: 52 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romance, Period Film

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Miranda Richardson - Rose Arbuthnot
Joan Plowright - Mrs. Fisher
Josie Lawrence - Lottie Wilkins
Alfred Molina - Mellersh Wilkins
Polly Walker - Lady Caroline Dester
Michael Kitchen - George Briggs