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| The Great Gatsby | 
| Director: Jack Clayton
Actors: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 1650
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 143 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: PARD084694D
ISBN: 0792189426
UPC: 097360846942
EAN: 9780792189428
ASIN: B0000AUHQT
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Release Date: December 2, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
 Gatsby is Great April 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this movie for the first time when I was teaching my juniors in English about the novel. The movie really helped the book come to life for them and the cast is brilliant! Excellent movie and I am glad that I have finally added it to my collection!
The Great Gatsby is...Great March 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an English teacher, I teach the novel by Fitzgerald every year. This film adaptation is just delightful...Mia Farrow is an appropriately ditzy yet tragic Daisy and Redford...ahhh...Redford. I highly recommend!
 Great if not outstanding March 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the pleasure recently of re-reading the book and then watching both film versions. This version is definitely the one to watch. Not perfect by any means, the Robert Redford, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, and Mia Farrow version essentially captures the subtext of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the vapid lifestyle of the rich before the 1929 crash. Thanks to a superior script by Francis Ford Coppola and great acting by the entire cast, the meanning of Fitzgerald's novel become very clear with overstating the obvious. This film is a perfect companion to any discussion of the novel. Reviewers who cannot see what Gatsby sees in the flighty Daisy miss the point of the novel.
Great Movie! January 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The critics struck out on this one. This is a great movie that follows the book very closely. Redford, Farrow, and Waterston really bring this film to life. Visually loaded, the movie has all of the Gatsby excesses one might expect to see. Highly recommended, this is a classroom friendly version of arguably the best American novel ever written (exception Catcher in the Rye?).
 INCREASING CLOUDINESS December 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having read all of Fitzgerald's novels and most of his short stories, I've come to the conclusion that some authors' best works simply just don't come across well on the screen. Let's add it up in "Gatsby". The film itself is about as close to being 100% accurate compared to the novel as you'll see. Redford plays the enigmatic protagonist excellently, Farrow as his former sweetheart is fine, and a young Sam Waterston does a good job as summer neighbor Nick Carraway. The photography,deliberately hazy and very beautifully done, seems to represent the novel's intent in presenting the rich as having plenty of problems hidden behind the facade of riches. The green light at the end of Daisy's pier is obviously symbolic. All of the secondary characters are more than acceptable as well, so we're right back where we started:the sum of the pieces should add up to a 5 star rating, but for me at least , I rank it a 3 plus, turn it off and then proceed to reread the 5 star American classic of 1926.
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