Product Details

• Actors: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr DeBenning, Sandy Baron
• Directors: Robert Ellis Miller
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000524DL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,705 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars November is the Sweetest Month, July 3, 2002

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Barry Eysman (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet November [VHS] (VHS Tape)

How wonderful there are reviews by customers who so much like this movie. who have also longed to see it again and who have waited for it to be available. I too love it, have remembered it vividly ever since it was first released, and think it a great thing to have it finally here.

Anthony Newley and Sandy Dennis worked beautifully together. Theodore Bikel is so comforting, strong and protective. It is a tender, sad and beguiling story by Herman Raucher, every bit the equal of his "Summer of '42" and that is complimenting it indeed. A rare and heady blend of deepest emotion, of what love can do to persons, and what the terrible thrusting of the end of the world causes--the bittersweet romance, the gone away, but not in the heart ever leaving, the one special romance that aches the soul is always the finest, the most cherished.

Unabashedly bigger than life, very much an old fashioned "romantic film," filled with happiness and passion, and captivating. I've loved Anthony Newley for most of my life. Sandy Dennis is one of my favorite actresses. It needed no remake. Keneau Reeves in the Newley role? Oh, please, no. There is just this one and only classic November. It is impossible not to weep when Charlie so desperately wants Sweet November to stay, to capture the fleeting time, and to make a calander with only that month forever on it, caught in amber.

Which is what this film has done. How can anyone not fall in love with a story in which Charlie names the sweater Sarah makes for him, because he loves it, "Rex"? New York has never been more captivating. Michel LeGrand's music is sublime. Fall and Thanksgiving and Sarah and Charlie and a most creatively sided box, and snow falling on the skylight. What more could a person wish for? The final magnificent song by Newley and Leslie Bricusse, sung in that electrifying Newley voice that will never be equaled, as the snow comes falling down around him on a park bench, his final goodbye, encompassing all the knowledge Sarah has given to him, for all hellos are goodbyes in disguise, breaks my heart every time I hear it. There can be no better, wiser "sentimental education."

Even if Sandy Dennis did not look like my first love, I would have liked her immensely--tender, sad and trembly always it seemed, a delicate rose at the beginning of Fall, all the more lyrical for that. But November can't stay; it's why autumn is so magical. Now that both actors are so sadly gone, we have this gift of love and innocence to remember them by; a study of the kind of affection that counts, that gets into the bones, and joyous memories edged with the patina of sadness. New York in autumn has always seemed the best place in the world to me. This film has proven me right.

Forever bless Anthony Newley, a giant of the musical stage, a sad sweet wise clown whose heart always seemed to be breaking; nevermore so than here. And Sandy Dennis, "mostly woman, mostly child."

The heart remembers, for that way, November is never "wintry and gray". Thanks to grand films like this, we see firmly, just why.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet November-A pure love story, August 31, 2009

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M. Reiff (los angeles, california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet November (DVD)

Sweet November. A pure love story. You are in for a treat. Don't let anyone tell you about the plot before you see it. No special effects. I don't think there has been a film with the chemistry that Newley and Dennis have. I wouldn't change a scene or a word. And, as in "The Apartment," Sarah's apartment is almost the main character. And Newley and Dennis just plain become Charlie and Sarah-from the first minute. The screenplay is perfection. It achieves the ultimate goal: you care about the characters. It is as though you already know them, as though they were your college buddies for four years. At the risk of sounding like a lib, you are feeling everything they do every minute of the story, even as it is happening. You know what they are going to do and feel the next minute, and the next. You have an insistant inkling of what's going to happen; and like a dream while you are dreaming it, you are unable to stop it, to change it, to make it end the way you want it to end. If you are a guy, you are Charlie; and if you are a girl, you are Sarah. It is nothing short of a gift that this film has survived. And the final scene in the apartment. November is over. Those twelve chimes striking midnight. If you've never been in love, now you have. And if you have been...

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Vivid Memory, February 17, 2004

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RICK (Wildwood, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet November [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My college sweetheart, with whom I have reunited after 35 years, and I saw this unforgetable movie as a Sneak Preview in 1968. It was the most beautiful, but heart-wrenching movie I ever saw. The two of us remember crying in the car for a couple of hours after leaving the theatre. This movie shows true love never to be forgotten, with an ending that we shall remember for a lifetime.