The nativity story [DVD] 36. / a New Line Cinema release of a Temple Hill production ; directed by Catherine Hardwicke ; produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen ; screenplay, Mike Rich.
Publisher:
New Line Cinema,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
10 film reels of 10 on 5 (ca. 102 min., ca. 9,180 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm. viewing print. 2 sound discs (ca. 102 min.) : digital, DTS ; 4 3/4 in. track.
Copyright: New Line Productions, Inc. Appl. au.: motion picture: Katja Motion Picture Corporation. PRV: Prev. reg. screenplay. NM: all other cinematographic material. DCR 2006; PUB 1Dec06; REG 30Nov06; PA1-343-897. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciaran Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Alexander Siddig, Nadim Sawalha, Eriq Ebouaney, Stefan Kalipha, Alessandro Giuggioli, Farida Ouchani, Said Amadis Summary from FirstSearch, OCLC 77564717, viewed Aug. 15, 2007. Not viewed. Digital sound on two compact discs stored in one film can (CGE 0284). DLC Sources used: copyright data sheet; copyright database; Variety Web site, review posted Nov. 21, 2006, viewed Aug. 15, 2007; Internet movie database, viewed Aug. 15, 2007; FirstSearch, OCLC 77564717, viewed Aug. 15, 2007.
Summary:
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.
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