Product Details

• Actors: Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan, John Hurt, Julian Rhind-Tutt
• Directors: Marc Munden
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008Z463
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,272 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Miranda" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 06/21/2005 Starring: Christina Ricci Kyle Maclachlan Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Marc Munden

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars for John Simm!, July 17, 2004

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VictoriousDust (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miranda (DVD)

More John Simm! Please, John, make more movies, and not just BBC tv.
Simm's character, Frank, has got to be the sweetest boy-man in cinema. Christina Ricci is wonderful playing a character that is all hard-edge. Frank is the perfect foil to melt her like butter, if she will let him. Frank is nerdy, but cute and sensitive-- adoring and adorable. As John Hurt says in the bts, it's an idealistic love affair, but Ricci & Simm are thoroughly enjoyable together. And MacLachlan and Hurt are typically perfect in supporting roles. The plot is exaggerated, but it's pure escapist fun. For a B-movie, it is a gem of a find, thanks to Simm.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So bad it's . . . really bad, March 17, 2006

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Seventh Deadly Finn (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miranda (DVD)

I'm a fan of Christina Ricci and dark comedies, yet I found this film damn near unwatchable. The only things intriguing about it are why the actors agreed to do it, why it was made, and why, after the backers presumably saw the finished product, it was released. The film itself gets no stars; my one star is for Ricci's presence.

For Ricci completists only, and then I recommend it be viewed with the sound off so that no one need listen to the dialogue.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars (2.5 STARS) Ricci in Off-beat Romantic Comedy Thriller ... Sort of, July 19, 2008

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Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miranda (DVD)

"Miranda" is one of the Christina Ricci's lesser known films that were made around 2001 and 2002. Back then she was often seen in smaller projects that went straight to video in USA - such as "The Gathering" and "Prozac Nation" - and like these not-so-great-and-not-so-bad films, the greatest merit of "Miranda" turns out my favorite actress Christina Ricci herself playing a mysterious woman named Miranda. American Miranda walks into an old library in Yorkshire (that is going to be demolished) and has a passionate affair with Frank (John Simm) a lonely librarian who loves Elvis.

I said "mysterious," but actually there is nothing truly mysterious about the character of Miranda. We all are aware that she is not what she looks from the very beginning and it is not hard to detect the secrets of her. But in "Miranda" (of which not-so-complicated story is told from his point of view) Frank is the last person to know that and we are supposed to swallow that premise.

This is a familiar story about a man who makes a wrong choice, but as the quirky animation at the opening credit part and the location of a quiet town of Scarborough suggest, the film is not so much a noir film as an off-beat romantic comedy thriller. Miranda (or Christina Ricci) is no femme fatale and she never looks like one, but I am not sure this is intentional or not.

The film's too simple story cannot really be involving and its characters are not particularly interesting. The film's laid-back pace doesn't help when the quirky film (which should have been much quirkier) does not have much to offer except a few funny moments and the fine performances from the two leads. The film directed by Marc Munden also features John Hurt as her father/mentor figure and a very weird character played by Kyle MacLachlan.

"Miranda" is not a bad film, but it is not a good film, either. Obviously it wants to be something unique and original, but it seems it doesn't know in what way.