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A Hard Day's
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Release
Date: April 13th 2001
Distributor: Buena Vista International
Certificate: U
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Wilfred Brambell
Director: Richard
Lester
Running Time:
85
mins
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'A
Hard Day's Night', marked The Beatles debut on the silver screen and became
one of the greatest rock and roll comedy adventures ever.
This classic film, directed by Richard Lester, received two Academy Award
nominations, for screenwriter Alun Owen and music director Sir George Martin.
Buena Vista International is now re-releasing the film with a fully restored
negative and digitally restored soundtrack. |
| The
year is 1964 and four young lads from Liverpool are about to change the
world - if only the madcap world will let them out of their hotel room.
Richard Lester's boldly contemporary rock n' roll comedy unleashes the fledgling
Beatles into a maelstrom of screaming fans, paranoid producers, rabid press
and troublesome family members, and reveals the secret of their survival
and success: an insatiable lust for mischief and a life-affirming addiction
to joy. |
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film takes on the just-left-of-reality style of a mock-documentary, following
"a day in the life" of John, Paul, George and Ringo as fame takes
them by storm. |
| They
have just decided, for the first time, they are going to break the rules.
In the next 24 hours, they are going to throw out their schedules, ignore
their obligations and get a taste of freedom. They'll have to dodge screaming
fans, avert the press, disobey their managers and try to keep Paul's fictional
grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell) in check. The film includes a wild television
performance given by The Fab Four. Throughout it all, witty one-liners,
classic pop songs and world-class charm build up to happy-go-lucky moments
of liberation that capture the sheer exuberance, innocence and rock n' roll
spirit of four young men trying to make their own rules in a world determined
to confine them. |
