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#1 Photo Products - Silent Night
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List Price: $6.99
Our Price: $4.39
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Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Matthew Harbour, Romano Orzari, Alain Goulem, Martin Neufeld
Directed By: Rodney Gibbons
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0096009415099
Format: Color
Label: Platinum Disc
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Platinum Disc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-11-08
Running Time: 86
Studio: Platinum Disc
Theatrical Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Summary: Silent Night by Linda Hamilton DVD
Comment: Loved this movie. Got it at a very good price too. True story about 2nd world war that showed the true Christmas spirit.
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Summary: I cannot comment
Comment: I cannot comment because I purchassed this product to give as a present to someone who wanted to add it to his collection. Therefore, I have not yet seen the film, and I have not heard the opinion of the person I gave it to. It was a hard film to find and I am grateful to have found it through Amazon.com I am sure that in the future I will be purchassing more products from Amazon.
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Summary: Peace on (a small pocket of) Earth
Comment: Silent Night is another heart-warming Christmas tale, this one from World War II Nazi Germany that like the WWI tale "Joyeux Noel", is supposedly based on actual events, when through a series of events a small unit of American GI's are forced to beg hospitality from a German house wife (Linda Hamilton) , who luckily happens to have chosen to take her 12 year old son, to the family hunting cabin a couple miles from the front. It is Christmas Eve, a blizzard is blowing and a Nazi Unit stumbles into the cabin on the verge of freezing to death. What happens next is that slowly, the enemies eventually come to recognize that they have more in common then they have differences.
I like this movie if for no other reason than it demonstrates, the stupidity of two countries claiming identical religious beliefs deciding to make war with one another.
So here's the deal, the story is a bit far fetched at times, and the acting a tad stilted, and even Ms. Hamilton's accent tends to fade in and out a bit, but the message is sweet enough to largely make up for it.
3 ½ *
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Summary: An Inspirational Story
Comment: In 2007 while doing that guy thing called channel surfing I found this movie. The story of Frau Elizabeth Vicken ,Linda Hamilton, hiding from the Second World War in a cabin in the Ardennes Forest with her last son Eric finds herself in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge. On the day before Christmas she is visited by 3 Battle weary American Soldiers lost from their unit she invited the soldiers into her home. She has only one rule no guns in her house. The Soldier overcome their wariness and agree they will share their rations with her and stay the night. Later three war weary German Soldiers approach the house and are given the same conditions by Frau Vicken which a agreed to by the German Hauptman.
Though the characters start the movie as caricatures that we have see in every war movie they become individuals as the story unfolds much as a group of strangers at a dinner party interact getting to know each other and the soldier's begin to see that they have much in common with each other and a tentative detente begins to develop between the two groups.
In the end the two groups go back to war but with an understanding of each other that shows that all men would be brothers if given the chance. Though this movie is billed as a Christmas Film it is a universal film with a great story line and good acting. I recommend this film to all people. It should become a staple of the holidays and an inspiration to us all.
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Summary: An Absolute Must See!
Comment: I just watched this on tv tonight and will definately buy it! It is based on a true story (and I love those kind of movies), and I was glued to the tv from the very start of the movie. A very good, touching movie that you absolutely HAVE to see. I highly recommend this dvd to anyone.
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