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Dom Robinson reviews

Parenthood

It could happen to you.

Distributed by

Columbia TriStar

Parenthood is Ron Howard's affection look a family life and how things change once children start arriving and creating havoc. It's an ensemble piece centring around Gil (Steve Martin) and Karen Buckman (Mary Steenburgen), their friends and family. It doesn't follow a plot per se, but behaves like a two-hour soap opera and has plenty to say to those of you who have children (not me yet :) and everyone who ever was a child.

It also does one thing that most films can't do - it has a satisfying beginning, middle and ending, by which time there will be a further two arrivals to the cast list.

One of the film's key factors is its script. It's packed full of dry humour and coming back to it eleven years on from the first time I saw it, it seems to play out a lot like an episode of The Simpsons, another series about a family and their friends plus the pitfalls and pleasures that fate deals them.

There's many a hilarious scene, but anyone who hasn't seen the film may want to skip the next paragraph as it details some of these moments.

The picture quality is fine but it's one of Universal's back-catalogue releases, released through Columbia, for which only a fullscreen transfer seems to exist. The same thing happened with the Region 1 DVD too. The average bitrate is a very good and steady 7.13Mb/s.

The sound comes in Dolby Surround flavour for most languages on this disc and is fine, but isn't one that's going to blow your speakers as it's no that type of film.

Extras :

Chapters :

There's only 16 chapters here to cover the 118-minute film, which isn't enough, as usual.

Languages and Subtitles :

Being made in the days before Dolby Digital 5.1, the best most languages can hope for is Dolby Surround (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), while Czech citizens only get Stereo sound and the Polish and Hungarian purchasers have to suffer the film in mono. Subtitles can be seen in English, Dutch, Swedish, French and German.

Filmographies, Biographies and Production Notes:

Extensive biographies with accompanying filmographies are available for all of the actors and actresses listed in the cast list at the top of this review, plus director Ron Howard. A few pages of production notes give some background info on the film.

Menu :

Similar to most Universal releases, the menu is static and silent with a picture mirroring the cover on the main menu.

If you've never seen this film before then it's certainly well worth the two-hour running time for those who like their comedy like their Canada, dry.

However, given that it's a fullscreen-only transfer and the price is a penny under twenty notes, then I can only recommend a rental at first and a purchase if you can buy it at a cheap price, since the film has been on TV a few times and the video has long since entered the budget range. 

FILM	 		: ****½
PICTURE QUALITY		: ***
SOUND QUALITY		: ***
EXTRAS			: *½
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OVERALL			: ***

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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