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      A Dance to the Music of Time

      1997 List
      Reviews 78% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Boring at first, but it gets bearably interesting. The fourth installment was weird though. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Well acted but off putting episodic drama. It's always difficult to stay with a story when the lead changes mid course as happens here. It's doubly distracting since none of the other actors roles changeover to someone else, they are just aged with makeup. Also contains one of the most vile characters in memory. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member An epic of the lives of a group of British men who went to the same school in the 1920's, with the main character, Nicholas Jenkins, played by James Purefoy (Rome). For the next forty years we see how each character drifts in/out of Jenkins' life; who gets divorced, who sleeps with a different wife, who drinks too much, etc. Through the Depression, WWII, the Cold War and the wild 1960's, Jenkins moves through the dance of life, faithful to his wife and children. Human frailties are exposed in all their rawness. Didn't like the choppy time progression (i.e. the 1930's). It was alright during WWII because there were historical dates pointed out (Hitler invades Poland) but once it got past the war it drifted until the 1963 literary award presentation. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Alvin Rakoff