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Overview

User Rating:
6.0/10   216 votes
Director:
Deepa Mehta
Writers:
Carol Shields (novel)
Deepa Mehta (screen story)
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Release Date:
13 February 2004 (Canada) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Geography is destiny
Plot:
A story of love and enchantment set in the coldest of winters, it explores the issues, dilemmas and... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
An Intelligent Script from a Pulitzer Prize Novelist Delivered by a Top Cast! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kate Lynch ... Dr. French

Kate Kelton ... Mother #1
Sunday Muse ... Mother #2

Brooke D'Orsay ... Mother #3

Bruce Greenwood ... Tom Avery
Jackie Burroughs ... Betty
Alec Stockwell ... Mike

Emilia Fox ... Fay
Lloyd Owen ... Peter

Gary Farmer ... Ted
Edward Fox ... Richard
Kenneth Wickes ... Mr. Duff
David Huband ... Sammy
Rebecca Jenkins ... Maeve

Connor Price ... Gary Woloschuck
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Canada:95 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
Canada | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:14A (Ontario)
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Company:
Dan Films more

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Emilia Fox (Fay) is the real life daughter of Edward Fox (Richard). more
Movie Connections:
Features Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) more
Soundtrack:
Easy to Fall in Love more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
An Intelligent Script from a Pulitzer Prize Novelist Delivered by a Top Cast!, 21 January 2008
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Author: gradyharp from United States

THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE is yet another fine film from Canada based on Canadian Pulitzer Prize Winner (for 'The Stone Diaries') Carol Shields' novel by the same name, and written for the screen and directed by the gifted Deepa Mehta ('Earth', 'Fire', 'Water', etc). It is a satisfying story about the human boundaries set by/for love and how those 'republics' touch and clash and interact.

Tom Avery (the very gifted actor Bruce Greenwood) was an illegitimate child, raised by a homemaker class as a teaching lesson in how young brides to be should learn the skills of tending house, who has grown up, married three times out of a need for belonging and for being loved, and is currently unattached, making his living as a night talk show host helping the lonely hearts. Into his life steps the beautiful museum curator, currently immersed in a Mermaid exhibition, by the name of Fay (Emilia Fox) who remains single because of her exceptionally high demands for a partner. The two meet, fall immediately in love much to their individual surprise, and proceed to court and encounter other couples (especially their parents) who seem to hold the winning medals for perfect marriage.

Fay's parents (James Fox is Richard, the father) have just celebrated their anniversary when Richard abruptly decides to leave his wife. Fay runs to her mother's rescue, leaving Tom alone and the apparent brunt of Fay's disillusion of marriage. The changes that occur cause Tom to reflect on his history of marrying too often in unions that have not met with success. How Fay and Tom ultimately resolve the abutments of their personal republics is the part of the story that carries the film.

The entire cast includes some of Canada's finest actors and the film is solidly directed by Mehta. There are aspects that disrupt the flow of the story, the main one being the incessant and very loud East Indian music that seems wholly out of place and is at best distracting (the score was written by Talvin Singh). Mehta also elects to throw in some bizarre cutesy animation at the end that for this viewer cheapens the story. But flaws aside, this is a fine film graced by the presence of Bruce Greenwood and Emilia Fox. Recommended entry from Film Movement. Grady Harp

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