The bad part is that I didn't read the user comments before I bought "Shirley Valentine." If I had, I wouldn't have gotten it. The transfer looks like it was copied from a videotape, it's full-frame AND it has dubbed lines! Evidently, when the movie was released in the U.S., some lines that were considered "too British" were dubbed with American references. This DVD, a Region-2 DVD for sale
in the UK,
for the British market, has the U.S. dub. How dumb is that?? The one that I noticed when I was just checking it out was some reference to a Ford and you could very easily tell that she was not saying the word "Ford." The overdubbing is poorly done and the overall sound quality is not very good.
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The packaging is real nice, though...it makes you think that it's been cleaned up and all. It has a cardboard cover with a lovely picture and the plastic keep-case inside that (you can see it in the amazon listing), but the movie itself looks old. Oh, well.
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I haven't checked "Educating Rita" much, but at least it is in it's proper 16:9 aspect ratio, even though amazon.co.uk says that it's "full frame" (which I also didn't notice
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).