Product Details

• Actors: Danielle Cormack, Karl Urban, Willa O'Neill, Michael Lawrence, Rangi Motu
• Directors: Harry Sinclair
• Writers: Harry Sinclair
• Producers: Fiona Copland, Juliette Veber, Tim Sanders
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Yorker Video
• VHS Release Date: November 19, 2002
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JMUL
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #41,406 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.com

This lovely and utterly unique film is truly a cinematic fairy tale, with not only the sweetness of fairy tales but their strange and malicious side as well. Lucinda (Danielle Cormack, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives) fears that the spark has gone out of her romance with Rob (Karl Urban, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), a milk farmer in lush New Zealand. A treacherous friend advises Lucinda to test her beloved's love, but the tests lead to the loss of their cows and possibly all hope for true love. The Price of Milk abounds with surreal touches (like an agoraphobic dog who wears a cardboard box and a family of magical golfing Maori) and events that may not make rational sense, but are absolutely perfect nonetheless. A wonderful film with an adorable cast. --Bret Fetzer

From the Back Cover

Once upon a time, on a dairy farm in a faraway land of fertile green valleys, there lived two lovers-Lucinda and Rob, and their one hundred and seventeen cows. After Rob proposes, however, Lucinda starts to worry that the sparkle may be fading from their love. When she confides in her best friend Drosophilia, she suggests Lucinda put Rob's love through a series of tests. Convinced this is the only way to tell if their love is forever, Lucinda returns home and the games begin. When Lucinda discovers a mystical old Maori woman, and trades Rob's precious cows for a quilt, their fairytale romance spins out of control. After he fails to recover his livestock and livelihood, he moves into his friend Bernie's cold garage. At the same time, Lucinda realizes that, silly games aside, she must get Rob's cows back before she loses her one true love. Ultimately, she must learn the price of milk before it's too late.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A charming little love story, May 26, 2001

By	thelittlebard - See all my reviews

This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. If you get the change, please see it! everything about POM [The Price of Milk] is beautiful. The New Zealand landscape is lush. The soundtrack [Harry Sinclair chose classical tunes!] mixes perfectly. It's a modern-day fairy tale. Danielle Cormack and Karl Ubran are both stars. They have amazing chemistry together, as two lovers. It is a simple, yet complicated love story. Lucinda and Rob [Cormack and Urban] live in the middle of nowhere, with eachother and their cows. What happens in the story is reminiscent of "Thinner" and involves a mysterious older woman. Without ruining the plot, the movie unfolds beautifully, with quirky little scenes that will have you chuckling in your seat. Nigel, Lucinda and Rob's dog, is a scene-stealer. POM involves bizarre fanciful events, mixing reality with a dream-sequence. The ony thing *wrong* with this movie is that it's on limited release, and like so many other fantastic NZ imports, most people will not get to see it. If you have the chance, please see this movie! And beg that it is released on DVD! It's a pleasure to watch - a movie in the pureset non-Hollywood sense.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Price of Milk, May 27, 2001

By	[e-mail] (Chicago) - See all my reviews

30 Second Bottom Line: A woman who is engaged to be married decides to test her relationship because it seems too perfect. As things start to unravel, her efforts to turn the clock back prove more than a little difficult.

Story Line: Lucinda and Rob (Danielle Cormack and Karl Urban) are a very happy couple who can make love with passion either in their bedroom or in an open pasture. Their eyes light up when they see each other and when Lucinda accepts Rob's proposal of marriage, both are rapturous.

The setting is a dairy farm in the lush New Zealand countryside. Understanding that this romantic comedy is a fable helps to get in the right frame of mind for the events that are about to occur. Two things help us make that transition early on in the film. One is that Rob has a dog with agoraphobia (fear of being in public places). The dog runs around under a cardboard box, which totally covers him up. No holes for the eyes or anything like that mind you. I knew I was hooked when Rob scratched the box and I was oddly touched and willing to accept it. The other is that Rob is so attached to his herd of 117 milk cows that he recognizes them by their "voices." He greets them by their unique number, "Hello # 87, how are you today?" Lucinda and Rob live in a thrown together cottage, with little furniture; but it has a surprising magical quality, felt later in the story. Their one beautiful possession is a patchwork quilt they sleep under.

The Price of Milk allows us to reflect on personal situations where we knew that 1) it was either too good to be true, or 2) that since nothing lasts forever, the expression "this too shall pass," applies to good things as well as bad. While you may think that it's as good as it gets, it could actually get better, if you only leave it alone!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A charming fairy tale, January 5, 2003

By	J. Remington "John Remington" (Adams, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Price of Milk (DVD)

"The Price Of Milk", a charming, quirky modern day fairy tale for adults set in the beautiful green rolling hills of rural North Island New Zealand, teaches the age old lesson (in a easy going, pleasant way) that sacrifice holds the key to love.

Shot in a magic realistic style that is somewhat reminiscent of "Like Water For Chocolate" and some of Brunel's more lyrical works, "The Price Of Milk" is a fun, quirky, symbollic film that blurs the lines between dream time and waking.

The actors are charming and utterly believable as is the mysterious "Mrs. Jackson", an Indian trickster that drives the narrative.

"The Price Of Milk" is a fine love letter to all couples. We must all give up something to keep together. This is a small, quiet film to love and cherish.