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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $23.49 You Save: $6.49 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2007 DVD Release : 08 May, 2007 |
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Clatterford - Season 1 description Fans of Calendar Girls and the many productions of French and Saunders (creators of Absolutely Fabulous) will enjoy Clatterford: The Complete Season One. Centered on the daily and social calendars of the village women, Clatterford features unique characters, comical by observation with the wonderful human traits we can all relate to. The women make jam and have meetings, but it's what goes on outside of those meetings where we really get to know the women. Leading a cast of familiar faces, including Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, is Dawn French, who portrays a mentally challenged woman, Rosie. The excellent writing in this series is apparent in an episode featuring Rosie and Margaret, her dueling personalities, fighting over the religious importance of a potato supposedly with the face of Jesus. Rosie is about as close as we get to the zaniness of Ab Fab, since the humor here is more subtle overall and weaved throughout, posing as normalcy. Also subtle are the dramatic moments and serious undertones, which elevate this series above being just another "Britcom."--Rachel Moss |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Clatterford "Jam and Jerusalem" is outstanding |
| This program is absolutely fabulous, though nothing like Absolutely Fabulous. Jennifer Saunders is part of the cast, but in a very understated way. Joanna Lumley is nearly unrecognizable. Doreen Mantle, Pauline McLynn, Sue Johnston and Dawn French will be familiar to American audiences from other Britcoms, but one soon forgets their other characters. Clatterford Village Green Preservation Society (the "WI" in all but name), throws a diverse group of women together who have little else to stimulate their imaginations.
Much of the gossip surrounds medical issues, thanks to the doctor's widow, played by Sue Johnston. She is interested in the "itchy crotches" "smears" and "ulcers" of the Clatterford residents. Far from being a busy body about it, she seems genuinely interested and no one hesitates to let her check things out. The cast of characters is charming and the acting is wonderful. This is not to be missed, and for this writer, every viewing has revealed deeper, richer layers, hence the decision to own a personal copy. I sincerely hope that Clatterford (Jam and Jerusalem in the UK) will return for another season or two. Where AbFab was more or less a running joke, Clatterford is far more original, and anything, but a running joke; it is exquisitely original. |
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