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Title:

Paradise road [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Village Roadshow Pictures production in association with YTC Motion Picture Investments and Planet Pictures ; executive producers, Andrew Yap and Graham Burke ; produced by Sue Milliken and Greg Coote ; based on a story by David Giles and Martin Meader ; written and directed by Bruce Beresford.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Drama.
Prisoners of war--Sumatra--Sumatra--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war--Drama.
Music--Psychological aspects--Drama.
Music in prisons--Drama.
Choirs (Music)--Women--Drama.
Female friendship--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Drama.
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945--Prisioneros y prisiones japonesa--Teatro.
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945--Mujeres--Teatro.
Prisioneros de guerra--Sumatra--Sumatra--Teatro.
War films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Yap, Andrew.
Burke, Graham.
Beresford, Bruce.
Milliken, Sue, 1940-
Coote, Greg, 1942-
Close, Glenn, 1947-
McDormand, Frances.
Collins, Pauline, 1940-
Blanchett, Cate, 1969-
Ehle, Jennifer, 1969-
Margulies, Julianna, 1966-
Meader, Martin.
Giles, David.
Van Shaik, Leny.
Jeffrey, Betty, 1908- White coolies.
Vrouwenkoor Malle Babbe.
Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Village Roadshow Pictures.
YTC Motion Picture Investments (Firm)
Planet Pictures (Firm)
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Notes:

Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Margulies ; featuring the voices of Vrouwenkoor Malle Babbe, Haarlem, The Netherlands, under the direction of Leny Van Shaik. Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. "Based in part on the diaries of Betty Jeffrey as published in White Coolies." Includes theatrical trailer and trailers for other Fox films.

Summary:

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46771347

UPC:

024543012184

Locations:

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant) — DVD PAR

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

NDPD953 -- Forest City Public Library (Forest City)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

IGIX641 -- Iowa Veterans Home Library (Marshalltown)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

MEPA423 -- Union Public Library (Union)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)