A Doll's House (1973/I)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Patrick Garland

Writers:

Christopher Hampton (writer)
Henrik Ibsen (play)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A wealthy woman's attempts to help her financially troubled husband go unrewarded.

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Punctuation In Title | Foreign Language Adaptation | Marriage Problems | Loan

Awards:

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.

Cast

Claire Bloom	...	Nora Helmer
Anthony Hopkins	...	Torvald Helmer
Ralph Richardson	...	Dr. Rank
Denholm Elliott	...	Krogstad
Edith Evans	...	Anne-Marie
Anna Massey	...	Kristine Linde
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Helen Blatch	...	Helen
Kimberley Hampton	...	Bob
Daphne Riggs	...	Old Woman
Mark Summerfield	...	Ivar
Stefanie Summerfield	...	Emmy

Runtime:

USA:105 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (1990) | Singapore:PG | Australia:G | USA:G

Company:

Elkins Entertainment

Trivia:

The Doll's House originally opened at Palmer's Theater on December 21, 1889 and has been revived on Broadway eight times as of 2008.

Movie Connections:

Version of A Doll's House (1918)

I was more than a little disappointed.

This is actually a very good play. I watched this movie in order to use it as a source for a school paper and in the re-writing, the person responsible for adapting it to this movie format left out a great deal of dialogue, instances do not come to mind at the moment, but it took something away from the movie.

Anthony Hopkins was wonderful in the movie but by the time I was halfway thru the movie, I wanted to choke Nora, so cloying was she. Her voice became fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

I would recommend, academically, the version with Jane Fonda starring in it. It's a significantly better version and not as boring. When I was finished watching this version, I wanted to sue the production company for the hour and a half of my life I lost.