Product Details

• Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Stuart Wilson, Tim McInnerny
• Directors: David Hare
• Writers: David Hare
• Producers: Patsy Pollock, Simon Relph
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: March 17, 1987
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301976428
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,510 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man, newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby, releases the long-repressed dark passions of some of its residents.

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites from the 1980's, November 7, 2002

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W "W" (South of the border, West of the sun) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wetherby [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I agree with the reviewer SILVOX, this has long been an overlooked film. I saw it when the film was first released in the theatres, I then owned an VHS copy, and I was happy to finally get the DVD release. The movie examines human loneliness through the life and love affairs of the various characters. Venessa Redgrave and her daughter, Joely Richardson, were both spectacular in the movie. The music score and the camera work were outstanding.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Redgrave gives a fantastic performance, May 19, 2005

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L. J. Anderson (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wetherby (DVD)

Besides qualms with the musical score, Wetherby has a killer script, intriguing editing, fantastic acting (Vanessa Redgrave is incredible), and a compelling idea driving the film. I liked the echoes of film noir in the intense, high-contrast lighting; the starkness of the violence was perfect, especially when combined with naked silence. It is more than a story about a disturbed young man who shoots himself in front of an aging school teacher, Jean Travers (Redgrave). That comes early in the film. It is about the psychological consequences for Jean in her life and past that are violently revealed through that shocking act. Life can never be normal again. Beneath even the most pleasant veneer lurks sadness, secrets, and dark sexuality.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OVERLOOKED AND RIVETING, November 24, 2004

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Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wetherby (DVD)

Vanessa Redgrave is spinster school teacher Jean Travers in David Hare's engrossing, overlooked, WETHERBY (Home Vision). This 1985 drama from the director of "The Hours" concerns the impact on Travers' life when a young man -- an apparent stranger -- breaks into her home, and shoots himself in her presence. Judi Dench and Ian Holm are Travers' good friends who -- much like Biblical Job's comforters -- try and help her cope and understand as she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper in a flood of memories and nightmares of unfulfilled love, longing and deceptions. Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson are utterly riveting in this superb and increasingly tense psychological drama that keeps its tantalizing secrets almost until the final fade out.

No extras on sharp looking transfer, but box includes a printed intro by Hare and an unusually insightful essay ("Have You Been True To Me?") by Brian Mcfarlane.