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starring: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas directed by: Martin Ritt  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0086162146930 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Label: Playhouse Video Manufacturer: Playhouse Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Playhouse Video Release Date: December 11, 1985 Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: Playhouse Video Sales Rank: 623 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - You Can't Believe How Good This Movie IsHaving seen this gem in college, in a cinematography class, I will never forget it. Possibly one of Voigt's best ever. Compare this character to the part he played in "Enemy of the State" and you'll be amazed at the spectrum of his acting skills. The only thing BAD about this movie is the administrator character who is an evil person. I think he was played by Hume Cronyn. But his performance, too, is outstanding. I saw this just recently on one of the oldies networks like AMC. And I was able ... Read More Rating: - Lost classic but still relevantI was a Peace Corps volunteer high school teacher in Central Africa in the early 1980s, and Conrack comes closer than any film I have seen to capturing that kind of inimitable life-altering experience. I show the film (VHS only, alas) every year to my first-year college students, many of whom will become teachers themselves, as an inspirational example of how to become your own best resource for imaginative teaching, even in this electronic age. As I predicted, THEY LOVE IT!! WHY OH WHY is this film ... Read More Rating: - absolutely Voight's best performanceIt is hard to whittle down the best of the best of these tour-de-force performers, but Conrack HAS to be either 1 or 2 TOPS of Voight's career. Stunning, captivating, stirring, thought-provoking...if I haven't given you enough adjectives, you are not worthy of watching....one of the Best of the best. Rating: - A little-known classic starring the young John VoightBased on Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel "The Water is Wide", this seldom-seen film is well deserving of a DVD issue from the only current available VHS release of this 1974 film starring a very young John Voight in the lead role. Set during the height of the Vietnam War, he plays a teacher sent to a tiny island elementary school, where he finds a group of young black students deemed as "slow" by their parents and peers, the principal in charge of the school, and his great nemesis, the school superintendant, ... Read More Rating: - "Against-all-odds" teacher on a time-forgotten islandEDUCATOR'S OF THE WORLD....WATCH THIS FILM IF YOU ARE THINKING OF THROWING IN THE TOWEL!!!!If you liked THE HISTORY BOYS,DEAD POET'S SOCIETY,THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE,EMPEROR'S CLUB or FREEDOM WRITERS,then you will love CONRACK.Teaching is a tough profession,and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.What Pat Conroy undertook to educate the disenfranchised and forgotten black children on a small island a stone's throw from the white elite cities of Beaufort,Savannah and Charleston will amaze and astound.Jon Voight ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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