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Notes on a scandal [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 243891 | 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, �2007.Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Notes on a scandal (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S87 N6847 2007
Contents:
Special features: Optional audio feature commentary by director Richard Eyre -- Notes on a Scandal: The story of two obesssions [featurette] (ca. 12 min.) -- Notes on a scandal behind the scenes [featurette] (ca. 5 min.) -- A conversation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy [featurette] -- "In character with Cate Blanchett" [featurette] (ca. 2 min.) -- Webisodes (ca. 14 min.).
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Chris Menges ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Philip Glass ; costume designer, Tim Hatley ; productions designer, Tim Hatley.
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson.Summary: Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbara's friendship. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara's cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD NOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000465339

Based on the book by Zoe Heller.

Special features: Optional audio feature commentary by director Richard Eyre -- Notes on a Scandal: The story of two obesssions [featurette] (ca. 12 min.) -- Notes on a scandal behind the scenes [featurette] (ca. 5 min.) -- A conversation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy [featurette] -- "In character with Cate Blanchett" [featurette] (ca. 2 min.) -- Webisodes (ca. 14 min.).

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Director of photography, Chris Menges ; editors, John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen ; music, Philip Glass ; costume designer, Tim Hatley ; productions designer, Tim Hatley.

Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson.

Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbara's friendship. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara's cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

MPAA rating: R; for language and some aberrant sexual content.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation.

In English (5.1 Dolby Surround), dubbed French (Dolby Surround) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby Surround) ; optional subtitles in English or Spanish ; closed captioned in English.

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