Product Details

• Actors: Joey Honsa, Edwin Wilson, Emily Stoltzfus, Cary Leiter, Jeremy Glickstein
• Directors: Sidney King
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MONTEREY VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012D6AUI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,939 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 29-APR-2008
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Singularly powerful, emotionally moving feature., March 3, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pearl Diver (DVD)

Winner of Best Feature Film at the East Lansing Film Festival among a host of other festival awards, Pearl Diver is a DVD that blends elements of a family drama with a tragic murder mystery. When two sisters lose their mother to murder, the loss haunts them for twenty years - until a farming accident uncovers the sense of trauma they have kept hidden since that horrific night. Yet hope can be found in facing the truth despite its most terrible realities, in this singularly powerful, emotionally moving feature. 97 minutes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars nicely photographed, inspiring story; some flaws also, July 6, 2009

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Viva (So. Cal.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pearl Diver (DVD)

This is beautifully photographed in Goshen, Indiana, and the story is compelling enough and certainly original. You just have to stick with it for a while as it starts off very slowly and doesn't ever pick up a lot of speed. Then again, it's not an action movie. The acting is tolerable, with two adult sisters diverging on how to remember their murdered mother and deal with the tragic farm accident that befalls the daughter of one of them.
Some flaws: A lot of the dialogue is repetitive. Also, spoilers ahead.......

The ending disappoints me as writer. I would not have tossed my hard work away like that. The character could have used a pseudonym and published it as fiction in order to spare others' feelings instead of just chucking it all wastefully.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful and moving picture, May 4, 2009

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Galina (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pearl Diver (DVD)

Pearl Diver (2004) is a beautiful, thoughtful, moving, involving and uplifting movie about two sisters who used to be very close in their childhood on the rural farm where they grew up in a Mennonite community. One tragic night, their mother was murdered by two intruders who tried to find something in their house. The girls' lives were changed forever. That night took them apart, and only twenty years later when another tragedy strikes, the sisters begin to unravel the mystery of old trauma. This is the film debut by writer /director Sidney King. He's got his own style in telling the story and creating and exploring interesting complex characters, not loud and flashy but clear, distinguished, and very attractive. I am especially pleased to see in one of the important roles the famous Russian stage and screen actor, Eugene Lazarev. His character provides the necessary depth to the story, he is a keeper of history and he holds the key to the mystery of what could be the reason for past tragedy that put the long shadow to the lives of the girls and their relationship. There is a short documentary on the disc, narrated by King where he talks on the purpose of movie, the reasons he made it and about the characters and their story.