Product Details

• Actors: Angela Lansbury, Irene Worth, Sam Wanamaker, Patricia Hodge, Anna Carteret
• Directors: Waris Hussein
• Writers: John Pielmeier
• Producers: Anne Hopkins, Deborah Edell Underwood, Emma Hayter, Marian Rees, William Hill
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hallmark
• VHS Release Date: August 17, 1999
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1574922777
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,425 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Item Name: The Shell Seekers (Hallmark Hall of Fame); Studio: Hallmark

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant way to spend and afternoon..., July 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Shell Seekers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have read Rosamunde Plicher's novel THE SHELL SEEKERS seven times, and the movie brought the characters alive for me. Anglela Lansbury played the aging though vibrantant and sensitive Penelope Keeling perfectly. The other characters were also cast quite well. I felt the movie was a terrific representation of a very well written novel. As always it is difficult to fit every tid bit into a movie to make it exactly like a book, but this movie comes close to being as moving as the novel.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing revision of the book, February 27, 2001

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MrsMorland (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shell Seekers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This should have been a wonderful movie--Angela Lansbury and most of the rest of the cast are terrific. But someone decided that the book was too sad as originally written. I don't want to give away the book's story for those who haven't read it yet, but two major deaths have been written out and family reconciliations abound. The novel was much tougher--and truer--as written by Ms. Pilcher. Totally unnecessary.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Shell Seekers betrayed, September 26, 2004

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Kathy Lang (Cornwall, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Shell Seekers (DVD)

No realistic viewer expects a filmed version of a book to be identical. But it SHOULD be true to the spirit of the novel (or why bother filming it?), and this TV movie is definitely not. Most of the main characters are too different, especially Penelope Keeling (Angela Lansbury is quite the wrong actress) - the Penelope in this film is unrecognisable. But the worst betrayal is the portrayal of Penelope's love affair with Richard, especially the change to its ending and to the ending of the book. If you want to watch a banal movie, and have neither read the book nor wish to read one of the finest novels in English, buy the movie. Much better, buy, read and re-read the book, and give yourself a real treat.