Product Details

• Actors: Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, Valerie Gogan, James Cosmo, Carl Proctor
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Henstooth Video
• DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EXDRUI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,885 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "One More Kiss" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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ONE MORE KISS - DVD Movie

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95 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You're 30 and you're dying... what would you do?, February 5, 2006

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~Pamela~ "Hart of the Movies" (Colorado USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One More Kiss [Region 2] (DVD)

Sarah left her father and Scotland behind when she moved to America to pursue her career. She also left behind Sam, her first love. Now Sarah -- dying of a brain tumor -- must return home and face her biggest challenge: to die with dignity knowing you've made peace with your past. But things have never been easy for Sarah -- her father vegetates in his chair withdrawn from life, Sam is married, and the other cancer victims in Sarah's support group sometimes help her and sometimes scare her.
How do you go back and make amends before you die? Does your need to set the past right take precedence over the lives of people living in the present? This movie doesn't supply easy answers but will make you think about love, life and death.

All the actors are wonderful but I want to single out a youthful Gerard Butler as Sam. His confusion and complicated situation regarding his past with Sarah and his present with his wife is played with heart-breaking sincerity. Warning -- tears may flow...

Butler and the director Vadim Jean are planning to work together again on a movie about Scottish poet Robert Burns and I am looking forward to their reteaming on what should be another heartfelt production.

43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, intense little drama... Less than ideal DVD from Hen's Tooth Video, August 2, 2006

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dooby - See all my reviews

This review is from: One More Kiss (DVD)

I liked this film very much. It's a very intense little drama which will provoke reflection, indignation and much post-viewing discussion, as evidenced by the postings here. What happens when as a fairly successful young woman, you are diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given just months to live. What happens when as a happily married man, the first "true love" of your life turns up at the door and tells you she's dying and wants to spend her last days with you? What happens when as a happily married woman, your husband's first love turns up and asks to "borrow" your husband for the last weeks of her life? How these people respond is the story of the film and it is gripping from first to last.

The actions of these characters are far from exemplary but they are believable. These are human beings, not saints. Personally I thought the dying young woman's actions were extremely self-centered, insensitive and selfish. She must have known perfectly well that her actions would wreak havoc on her "true love's" marriage. One's imminent death is not a license to ruin other people's lives. The man's response to her proposition is equally disappointing. When your wife makes it crystal clear that she doesn't want you spending time with your ex-lover, irrespective of whether she's dying or not, you do not blissfully ignore her pleas because you coveniently assume you have a "higher" obligation to a dying friend. It may be old fashioned to point out, but a man's first loyalty should be to his spouse, not his "first love." The wife's reponse was to be expected. My sympathies lay with her from the start. She could and should have tried to be more understanding but how understanding can you be with someone who felt every right to take your spouse away and did not look the least bit sickly to boot. Perhaps if her husband had been more trustworthy she could have exhibited more compassion.

The script is good. The acting is equally good. This is an ensemble movie with an excellent all round cast. Gerard Butler's charm and charisma alone saves his character. I vouch that many ladies who defend the husband's actions do so because they see it as defending Gerard Butler. If a lesser actor had taken on the role, they would have been scathing in their condemnations. Valerie Edmund as the dying woman, Sarah, is just as good in winning our affections while at the same time repelling us with her behaviour. Despite my misgivings over her actions, I found her defiant attitude towards impending death heartening, even heroic. I was moved by her final exhortation, "Don't sleepwalk through life..." ending with its famous Dylan Thomas quotation, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Many of the poor ratings for this film come from viewers who are unhappy with the characters' actions. But judging the characters' behaviour and judging the film should be two separate things. I found the characters' conduct less than salutary but I found the film exceptionally good because it was topical, thought-provoking, involving and moving. There are far too few such films being made these days.

Curiously, the film was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen - a very wide aspect ratio usually reserved for Hollywood epics and blockbusters, not for an intimate drama like this. Perhaps the director wanted to showcase the beauty of the Borderland (Scottish Borders). With such a widescreen aspect, Hen's Tooth should have provided an anamorphic transfer (widescreen TV enhancement). Instead they have letterboxed this ultra-widescreen into the standard 4:3 frame leaving viewers with a thin sliver of a ribbon of film to watch. Playback on a newer widescreen TV is less than ideal because it has to be manually magnified resulting in loss of image detail. For a relatively recent film (1998), there is an inordinate amount of white specks appearing on the print. Not enough to mar your enjoyment but irritating nonetheless. Picture quality is as good as you can expect of a non-anamorphic picture (less detail than in an anamorphic transfer). Colours are sufficiently rich and true. Black levels are OK. The Scots accent may be a challenge to some viewers. Unfortunately no subtitles are provided. Aside from the trailer, there are no extras.

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant reflection on imperfect love affairs & true love, March 19, 2006

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Jennifer "Phantom Dreamer" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One More Kiss (DVD)

I had the pleasure of watching this movie once recently; it was the UK version. I am excited to find that I can now order a version that will play in my US DVD player!

Being a fan of Gerard Butler, it is hard to dislike the characters he plays, and in watching this film I was torn between whether I could forgive Sam as well as his old lover. I can not write much because I do not want to ruin the film for anyone who has not seen it, but... it does make one think about how fragile love really can be. It shines light on the idea of having a soul mate- that one person who, even after many years have passed and a life has been created with a new love, has the ability to tear apart everything a person has built with his/her lover. This film made my heart hurt, and that, in my opinion, makes for an awesome film. I am happy to add it to my collection.