Format:
Video disc
Title:
The bridge of San Luis Rey
ISBN:
9780780652699
Publication:
[United States] : New Line Home Entertaintment, [2005]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from disc surface.
Originally issued as a motion picture in 2004.
Based on the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Summary:
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. A priest journeys to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century and based on the Thornton Wilder novel.
Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keital, F. Murray Abraham and Geraldine Chaplin co-star in this epic film adaption of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Five seemingly unrelated travelers cross the San Luis Rey bridge when it suddenly collapses. Were their tragic deaths the result of Divine Intervention, mere chance or perhaps something more sinister? Intrigued a Franciscan monk investigates the victims' pasts, uncovering secrets in this moving tale of passion, ambition and destiny. -- Back of container.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: PG, thematic elements, some disturbing images and sensuality.
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