THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Why, hello! I am writing this from my vacation home by the lake. So, here at my vacay home I do a lot of thinkin' and chillin', ya know, and well, I have been thinkin' 'bout BOATS! I wanna a speed boat and I want one NOW!! HEAR THAT UNIVERSE? A small yacht would be okay, too. In the meantime, I guess I'll review the next film; a grrrl's gotta make a livin' ya know, yes, even a gorgeous grrrl!

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

PG-13

Length: 115 min.

Director: JUSTIN CHADWICK

Cast: NATALIE PORTMAN, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, ERIC BANA, JIM STURGESS, KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, EDDIE REDMAYNE, JUNO TEMPLE, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, ANA TORRENT

Genres: DRAMA
PERIOD PIECE
UNITED KINGDOM

Other Features: Color; interactive menus; scene access; deleted scenes, making-of featurette; behind-the-scenes featurette, cast and crew info.

Screen formats: Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85.1

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Closed Captioned
Language and Sound: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1

Original Release Date: 2008

I was really excited to see this film, 'cuz I had read the book. Then my mom told me the movie wasn't as good as the book. Wellio, I have to agree with my mom. Typical, isn't it? The book was an entertaining read, not on my top 500 list of great books to read, but perfect if you want something for the airplane. There are two reasons to see this film. One if you read the book. Two for NATALIE PORTMAN. The story is based on the true story of HENRY THE 8th and ANNE BOLEYN his second wife. Apparently, there was a sister to ANNE who is in the history books but we have never heard of, of course until the book came out. SCARLETT JOHANSSON plays the sister. I normally love her work, but I think she was miscast in the part. She looks out of place in the film. ERIC BANA is also miscast. YUCK, is all I have to say, and he was fantastic in that SPEILBERG film and TROY. The costumes are okay, not great. The story cut to shreds. However, NATALIE PORTMAN has some really good scenes. She portrays the character as written really well and I thought was perfectly cast! The actor who played the uncle was good, too. KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS is in the film, but barely. It's worth seeing, but barely.

Ta Ta,

Mitzi