Product Details

• Actors: Nancy Travis, Art Malik, Sarah Miles, Yaphet Kotto, Julian Sands
• Format: Color, EP, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: June 18, 1996
• Run Time: 190 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304113390
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,975 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A romance out of the past, June 27, 2003

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J. Houzet "wozamoya" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harem [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I enjoyed this seemingly made for TV movie when I saw it back in 1990. I discovered afterward there was another movie with the title of Harem made the same year (1985-86) and starring Nastassja Kinski. That one was a bit darker, but also enjoyable.
I had already seen Nancy Travis, the starlet of this Harem, in the Richard Gere cop thriller Internal Affairs, and in a bit part in Married to the Mob, so at the time she was babelicious.
It's become a common plot, in these types of movies, to have a beautiful western woman kidnapped by a lustful or politically-motivated sultan or sheik (I think of the excellent The Wind and the Lion, the surreal The Sheltering Sky, then Sahara and a bunch of lesser movies). But Harem executes this plot well - you sympathize for Jessica, the character played by Nancy Travis, you want her fiance to rescue her, and yet you start rooting for her new Bedouin love interest and even feel for the tyrannical sultan, played by Omar Sharif.
Julian Sands plays Jessica's stiff Brit fiance, a turnabout from the dashing and impetuous young lover he played in A Room with a View. You wish he would be a stronger character, but he is so weak-kneed you understand Jessica's fickle betrayal.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous! A visual feast, Awsome music! Great acting!, February 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Harem [VHS] (VHS Tape)

While all of the actors, especially Nancy Travis, were excellent in this film, I noticed that on this web site, the review of the cast does not even mention Art Malik, who played Tarek Pasha (sp?). To me, he was the shining star. His character was the one who won the Jessica's heart and in the process found his own. He was the exquisitely handsome, exciting, element that made this story shine! And he did it so well! Even the sound of his voice could melt the hardest stone. Shame on you! I noticed a couple of inconsistancies in the synopsis and review of this video: The girl was spotted on the train, by one of the revolutionaries during a raid, which had nothing to do with her, but when the revolutionaries were caught and sentenced to death, by the Sutan, the revolutionary leader was told by the man who had seen her that she was the only possible way to free his men, so he had her kidnapped and then traded her into the harem for his mens' lives, she was never actually sold.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Love On Film, May 10, 2000

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Karla (Small town, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Harem [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is all about love in it's purest form. Unconditional and true. The movie displays beautiful scenery of a land rarely seen or traveled by many. It holds great truth in the government at that time and beliefs of its people. Visually it is stimulating with costume and scenery. It is a beautiful movie, filled with romance and action. The story is very well written. And the length of the movie does not affect you. And ALL the actors play there character so well, you almost believe that you are there and feeling what they feel. It is a movie to lose yourself in. Send it to yourself, grab your favorite snack, place yourself somewhere cozy and light the candles. You are in for a real treat!