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      Metroland

      R Released May 28, 1997 1h 45m Comedy Drama List
      62% 29 Reviews Tomatometer 54% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score In late-1970s suburban London, Chris (Christian Bale) and Marion (Emily Watson) have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni (Lee Ross), a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 1960s Paris. Now, with lingering doubts about his marriage bubbling up, Chris must make the choice between revisiting his youthful abandon with Toni or facing the here and now with Marion. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member I must rent Metroland on Video and DVD. :-) Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Frances H I liked this film that has a couple analyzing their middle class existence compared to the freedom of youth and coming up with the rather uncinematic view that "I am content." In other words, the ordinary life has a lot to be said for it.This view is a message not always looked upon with sympathy in Hollywood, not since the seventies anyway. Rather refreshing to see it again. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/13/13 Full Review Audience Member I watched this movie because was @ Venice film Fest in 1997 so i thought this must be a cool movie. i just found it not very original, and Emily Watson is boring. But I loved the scenes shoot on the train and the ones in the parisian attic Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Sex, Lies and then more sex and lies!! Lee Ross breathes life into the Iogian-like Toni but Christian Bale seals the deal for me. His innocence, his confusion and his intensity brings this film together. I didn't quite like the ending but I thought Emily Watson was surprisingly skillful in breaking the Cliche of a Married Middle-Class English Woman! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know why but I obsess about this movie. It's not that good but it makes me want to go to Paris and find Christian Bale and marry him and have hundreds of babies. But I'd probably feel like that without ever seeing this movie. This movie gets two thumb up because of course I want to see Bale speak French. Très sexy! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Strangely current, isn't it? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Nigel Andrews Financial Times Lively performances help... But the film's lumpy style and structure end up rendering it as fogeyish as its target. Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: A- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Peter Stack San Francisco Chronicle Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Rated: 3/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Underrated. Rated: 4/5 Nov 20, 2007 Full Review Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com For all the nudity and sexual content, Philip Saville's unoriginal and predictable film is, at its core, no different from one you'd find premiering on network television. Rated: 2/4 Jan 2, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis In late-1970s suburban London, Chris (Christian Bale) and Marion (Emily Watson) have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni (Lee Ross), a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 1960s Paris. Now, with lingering doubts about his marriage bubbling up, Chris must make the choice between revisiting his youthful abandon with Toni or facing the here and now with Marion.
      Director
      Philip Saville
      Screenwriter
      Adrian Hodges
      Production Co
      Arts Council of England, Blue Horizon Productions
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 28, 1997, Original
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $299.5K
      Runtime
      1h 45m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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