Product Details

• Actors: Andrew Dunn, Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll
• Directors: Steven Woodcock
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 2, 2004
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001BKAB2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,656 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Veteran actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother in Northern England struggling with her feelings for another woman -- her 10-year-old son's vivacious teacher, Kathy Thompson (Andrina Carroll).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Post-WWII Northern England lesbian romance, May 11, 2005

By	abqbeach (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews

I hadn't heard anything about this film before watching it and was very pleasantly surprised. Between Two Women is a nice romance set in post-WWII Northern England. Ellen (Barbara Marten) has lived in the same industrial mill town all of her life, surrounded by the constant noise of steam engines and a dire working class existence.

She and her dull husband have grown apart, but when their son Victor's (Edward Woodcock) teacher begins taking a special interest in his artistic abilities, Ellen's life also becomes more interesting. Soon the meetings are about Ellen and the younger Kathy (Andrina Carroll) and their growing friendship and love.

Ellen struggles with issues of duty to her marriage and parents, and working towards her own real happiness for the first time in her life. The journey is not an easy one, but she summons the courage to follow her heart.

Barbara Marten's performance as Ellen is wonderfully compelling, and the film is a lovely romance between two very real characters in the 1950s.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deeply moving, August 1, 2005

By	Lucymarie A. Ruth "reverberate_hills" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Between Two Women" is the most deeply moving movie about the love between two women, indeed about the love between any two humans, that I have ever seen. I cannot ever watch the "coming out" scene (set in a Birmingham park) without crying. I suppose this movie is not for everyone, but it is one that I would not be without. Persons looking for explicit love scenes should avoid this movie. Persons looking for a beautifully human movie will want to own it.

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great movie but the ending could have been much better, November 2, 2004

By	William Hughes "Amy" (Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Overall, this is great movie which takes place in the 1950's in Northern England...The young boy stays after school all the time while his mother gets aquainted with his teacher ( Miss Thompson )...Eventually the teacher resigns and moves away and ends up writing to the boys mother and it isn't until then that she realizes that she is in love with Miss Thompson...The ending of the movie I didn't think was that great because it really left some things unanswered...The mother ended up taking her son and leaving her husband to be with Miss Thompson and the movie ended with just showing the mother and son on the train on their way to begin their new life...If you are looking for something with any deep passionate scenes you won't find it in this movie...I personally thought it was going to have more romance than what it did to it which was why I bought and because I like dramas as well, but the most it ever got to was just holding hands and a hug...I found it kind of disapointing but yet still a good movie...