The Cider House Rules, Lasse Hallstrom's adaptation of John Irving's novel, comes to DVD with a crisp 2.35:1 widescreen anamorphic transfer. English and French soundtracks are available in Dolby Digital 5.0, but only the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Spanish subtitles are available. This disc boasts a commentary track from the director, the screenwriter (Irving (who won an Oscar for his work on this film), and the producer, as well as deleted scenes, a "making of" documentary, cast and crew bios, TV spots, and the theatrical trailer.
Customer Rating
4
Cider House Rules
on January 25, 2008
Posted by: ndnRebel
from near Pittsburgh
This movie had me hooked within the first fifteen minutes of the movie. It tells part of the story of one boy's life and throughout there are underlying questions you are provoked into to thinking about. Abortion is one of them as the doctor at the orphanage proforms them illegally. One abortion was obviously self inflicted (or possibly a really bad hack job) when she got to the orphanage she seemed to be in some serious trouble and it makes you wonder how depserate some women may get. I was involved with this movie waiting anxiously to see the next minute and I grinned happily between the areas of deep thought. I loved it!
What's great about it: offers thought provoking situations throughtout the movie
What's not so great: I wanted to see more, more details, more of what happens next kinda of thing!