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DVD : The Lakes: Complete BBC Series 1 [1997]
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The Lakes: Complete BBC Series 1 [1997] starring: Marshall Lancaster List Price: £15.99 Price: £2.63 You Save: £13.36 (84%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5028836030577 Format: PAL Label: Second Sight Films Ltd. Manufacturer: Second Sight Films Ltd. Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Second Sight Films Ltd. Release Date: October 06, 2003 Running Time: 237 minutes Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd. Sales Rank: 32722 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The Lakes brought writer Jimmy McGovern and actor John Simm a great deal of critical praise in 1997. Following a particularly dry period for British TV drama, the show's realistic characterisations and their painfully honest decisions hit audiences hard. Simm is a twentysomething trapped in a life of compulsive gambling, theft and being on the dole in Liverpool. On a whim he heads north to the Lake District. He expects to find the countryside quietude where his hidden poetical leanings might find a home, but instead gets caught up in a community like any other. Lies, temptation and tragedy beset every household just as much as the big city. The focus of Series 1 is Danny's relationship with Emma (Emma Cunniffe) and the consequences of having a child. As time races by, his link to the Lakes becomes an exercise in torment when the eyes of blame fall easily upon him after the accidental deaths of four schoolgirls. Stoking the flames of a series of secondary explosions in waiting are a pair of affairs, one adulterous, the other complicated by religion. On the DVD: The Lakes Series 1 comes with two separate commentary tracks for the very first episode. In interviews, John Simm fondly recalls how cold the lake water was and director David Blair recalls putting him in it. It's a shame the two weren't recorded together. It's also a shame that's all there is in this package. Even a few cast biographies would have been welcome. Picture is 4:3 and stereo sound is as you'd expect from 1990s UK TV. --Paul Tonks Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - UK Drama at its very bestJohn Simm was an unknown when he took the lead role as Danny BBC1'S he lakes back in 1997 now of course he's appeared in Clocking Off, State of play and the Canterbury Tales. The Lakes is as my title says - UK Drama at it's best. 6 fast paced episodes each one as gripping and intreeging as the last. Its fantastic stuff and one of the most memorable series of the 90's Rating: - SuperbThis was what I orignally thought to be a very 'odd' birthday present from my brother. However I was hooked in minutes and watched the whole thing over a weekend and ordered the second series the next day! |
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