Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Lady Jane finally on DVD!:

I have loved this movie ever since I first saw it at 15. It made me fall in love with Cary Elwes and Helena Bonham Carter, both superb actors who should get more credit (and more roles!). I love the story, although it is tragic, albeit romantic at the same time. It does not bother me that it is in some respect historically inaccurate. So is "Braveheart" and that is my favorite movie of all time. The important thing is this movie made me want to know more, and since first seeing it I have become obsessed... more info

Visually delightful - story poor:

The story of the real Lady Jane, tragic and fascinating, would make a wonderful screen play. Unfortunately, the writers of this film's script adapted a few facts and sandwiched stock, pat fiction in between.

Helena Bonham Carter, at once beautiful and earnest, does give the viewer a flavour of the intellectual, devout, and manipulated Jane, and the acting, scenery, and music are first rate and the reason for my high rating. There is a sense of Edward VI's concern for the sucession, how Jane was used as a... more info

A historical tragedy turned into more of a fictional romance:

One of the most interesting instances of genetic and gender in the history of Western Civilization is found with the death of King Edward VI of England at the age of 15 in 1553. Too young to leave heirs, his older half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were both considered illegitimate because of the martial history of their father Henry VIII. Going through the Tudor family the only other potential claimants, Mary of Scotland and Lady Jane Grey, were also female. It seemed that God that determined that a... more info

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