 Widescreen DVD
UPC 043396166028
ISBN 1424832640
Retail $19.94
Released 4/24/07
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Wah-Wah
| In Theaters: |
May 12, 2006
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| On Video/DVD: |
November 21, 2006
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| Starring: |
Gabriel Byrne
Nicholas Hoult
Miranda Richardson
Emily Watson
Julia Walters
Zachary Fox
Celia Imrie
Julian Wadham
Fenella Woolgar
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| Director: |
Richard E. Grant
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| Genre: |
Drama
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| Synopsis: |
Acclaimed actor Richard E. Grant's 'Wah-Wah' is a semi-autobiographical 'coming-of-age at the end of an age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1969, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.
As an 11-year-old, Ralph witnesses his mother's adultery with his father's best friend. His parents divorce and Ralph is sent to boarding school. His father, Harry (Gabriel Byrne), not only loses his wife (Miranda Richardson) and best friend, but also his position as Minister of Education with the coming of Independence, prompting his rapid descent into alcoholism.
Now 14, Ralph (Nicholas Hoult) returns home to discover that his father has re-married an American ex-air 'hostess' named Ruby whom his father has known all of six weeks. As round a peg as you could find in this square holed society, Ruby (Emily Watson) ridicules the petty snobbery of the restless colonials whose chief amusements are gin, adultery, and their foppish slang of 'toodle-pip' and 'hobbly-jobbly' ' that Ruby identifies as sounding like 'Wah-Wah.'
Although Ralph is initially wary of Ruby, he bonds with her as his father's drinking escalates and becomes dangerously out of control. It's this chaos that stokes Ralph's inner turmoil, and eventually forges his creative mind. |
| Rating: |
R
for some language and brief sexuality |
| Length: |
97 Minutes |
| Box Office: |
$0.2 Million |
| Studio: |
Roadside Attractions
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War, Inc.
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