A Man for All Seasons Rating: Release Date: 10 February, 2004 Retail Price: $19.94 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller Robert Shaw Susannah York Complete Cast (7 total)

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A courageous and moral man - Thomas More
A 1966 period movie with a true story about a man who stands up against powerful King Henry VIII and many others for his moral beliefs in regard to divorce. The king wanted a male heir and wanted to divorce his wife and take another one to achieve that. He was trying to get the church's permission to get out of this marriage with their approval. The stand Thomas More takes complicates his life in many ways, including his family and friends. More is an influential man of some means who was high in the leadership of England at that time.
Once you see it, you will know why it won so many awards, including best picture, and best actor. (Paul Scofield)
The expressions alone on Scofield's face are very fine acting.
This movie helps you see the difference between public and private beliefs. His were the same.

Would St. Thomas More really be any more popular today?
The technical excellence of this film on every level has already been sufficiently and deservedly documented many times over.

There is so much to savor: every syllable and facial expression of Mr. Scofield, Wendy Hiller in her devastatingly real final departure from her husband in the Tower of London,--a scene so heart rippingly convincing that the viewer is nearly traumatized by the mere witness of it, as well as photography and production design that render the film's interiors as though they were painted by Vermeer.

But all this is secondary to the film's powerful meaning, a meaning apparently lost, (or abandoned) in our inane, relativized, pop culture Oprah-ized delusional pursuit of "self-fullfillent". And that is, of course, that St. Thomas More must willingly give up his own life rather than publicly countenance a divorce, and thereby deny the Church. How very refreshing to hear heresy denounced by its rightful name in this film! Roman Catholics take note: absolute fidelity to the Primacy of Peter often requires nothing less than one's very life. The film should be required viewing for all catechumens

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