Product Details

• Actors: Lee Remick, Stewart Duvall, Melissa Gilbert, David Hemmings, Lauren Hutton
• Directors: Peter Medak
• Writers: Maryedith Burrell
• Producers: Shelley Duvall, Bridget Terry, Fred Fuchs
• Format: Color, Live, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: March 1, 1990
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302492866
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,746 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A young man learns the value of warmth and friendship when he is rescued by his best friend from the land of the Snow Queen.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best in the series!, October 29, 2004

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faerie Tale Theatre - The Snow Queen (DVD)

This charming installment of the FAERIE TALE THEATRE series is one of my all-time favourites, based on Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairytale.

Melissa Gilbert and Lance Kerwin play Gerda and Kay, who enter the frozen land of the Snow Queen (played beguilingly by the late Lee Remick) to learn some much-needed lessons about love and friendship.

Along the way, Gerda meets the Lady Of Summer (Lauren Hutton) and the Robber Girl (Linda Manz) who both try to come between Gerda and her search to find Kay.

Narrated wonderfully by Shelley Duvall (who also created and produced the series, even starring in a few of the tales), with brilliant costumes and sets create a bewitching tale of love and friendship.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, mature and wonderful, March 8, 2010

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Gregory N. Perkins "wide reader" (Frankfort, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faerie Tale Theatre - The Snow Queen (DVD)

Faerie Tale Theatre's adaptation of "The Snow Queen" is one of the series' darker episodes, yet still gives a multifaceted message on the saving power of love.

Starring Melissa Gilbert, Lance Kerwin, and Lee Remick in the title role, it also features a production design on a relatively grand scale given the typical standards of the series. The story, adapted from the work of Hans Christian Andersen, concerns two friends named Kay (Ki, with a pronounced "I") and Gerda, played exceptionally well by Kerwin and Gilbert. The script does a wonderful job addressing the uncertainties of life within a fairytale framework and context, utilizing an ugly goblin to turn Kay against Gerda with the broken pieces of a mirror. Thus enters the Snow Queen and begins Gerda's race to save Kay in an unusual story of danger and love.

Also starring Lauren Hutton and narrated by Shelley Duvall, Faerie Tale Theatre's "The Snow Queen" is still the definitive rendering of the classic story.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is Awesome!, January 16, 2009

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April (UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faerie Tale Theatre - The Snow Queen (DVD)

I grew up with Faerie Tale Theatre and having them all is awesome. My kids love it and I love it. I would definitely recommend it!