The book shop
2017
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Set in 1959, Florence Green, a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. By exposing the narrow-minded local townsfolk o the best literature of the day, she opens their eyes thereby causing a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries. Her activities bring her a kindred spirit and ally in the figure of Mr. Brundish who is himself sick of the town’s stale atmosphere. However, she invites the hostility of the town’s less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs. Gamart, Hardborough’s vengeful, embittered alpha female who is herself a wannabe doyenne of the local arts scene. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart’s will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town.
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Author:
Coixet, Isabel, 1960-, director, screenwriterNighy, Bill, 1949-, actorClarkson, Patricia, 1959-, actorMortimer, Emily, 1971-, actorBas, Joan, 1949-, producer
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Diagonal Televiso, ©2017.Australia Distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia ©2018.©2017
Collation:
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Special features: Behind the scenes -- Alani music videoBased on the book by Penelope Fitzgerald."A town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one"--Container.In English. [CC] English captions (descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired).
Credits:
Directed by Isabel Coixet; screenplay by Isabel Coixet; produced by Joan Bas and Jaume Banacolocha, Adolfo Blanco, Chris Curling.
Performers:
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Nighy, Honor Kneafsey, James Lance, Harvey Bennett, Michael Fitzgerald, Jorge Suquet.
Audience:
Censorship classification: PG ; for mild themes and infrequent coarse language.
System details:
Region 4 ; PAL.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
370459
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