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Online Discount Shopping   All ProductsApparelBabyBeautyBooksClassical MusicDVDDigital MusicElectronicsGourmet FoodPersonal Health CareJewelryKitchen & HousewaresMagazinesMiscellaneousMusicMusical InstrumentsMusic TracksOffice ProductsOutdoor LivingPC HardwarePhotoRestaurantsSoftwareSporting GoodsTools & HardwareToysVHSVideo (DVD & VHS)VideoGamesWirelessWireless Accessories The Namesake List Price: $27.98 Special Price: $17.99 Your Savings: $ 9.99 ( 36% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Starring: Irfan Khan, Kal Penn, Jagannath Guha, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu Directed By: Mira Nair Average Customer Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: PENN,KAL EAN: 0024543456087 Format: AC-3 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: 2007-11-27 Running Time: 122 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2007-03-09 Related Items Waitress (Widescreen Edition) Once The Kite Runner Away from Her Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) Editorial Reviews: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: PG13 Release Date: 27-NOV-2007 Media Type: DVD Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Love this movie!! Comment: I have not read the book so maybe it is better but I absolutely loved this movie. I thought Kal Penn was phenomenal and I cried as did my wife when his father explains to him what his name means. I really enjoy movies about different cultures and was really blown away by this movie. Highly recommend Customer Rating: Summary: moving film on identity, culture, and fate Comment: This is a beautiful film. The central character is a boy who it between cultures and struggling to make a way for himself on his own terms. This is a universal phenomenon in the US, one that as a half-chinese I have encountered my entire life: you want to be independent, but are drawn by love and the deepest personal associations to a fading ideal/circumstance. I deeply identified with the protagonist's ambivalence towards his parents, his regrets and attempts to bring himself closer to his roots, and his finding a center with a completely personal meaning, which has much to do with his name(s). The characters are very well drawn, from his immediate family to his involvements with whites and indians. Warmly recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: LOVE THIS STORY! Comment: I have to say that I really love this movie, I have seen it four times and in my loving this film, have sat and watched it with others. It is a truly beautiful, sad and real story about cultures crossing over, traditions reigniting,the tugging of confoming and many other human interest subjects. It is tender and beautifully done. I cry everytime I watch it and hope it is an inspiration for other great films like this one to be produced sans the violence, foul language and nudity that we don't need to make a brilliant film as this one. Customer Rating: Summary: great! Comment: Excellent film. Film covers culture, identity, and parental relationships. Deals truthfully with what it is like to be a person of color growing up in a white world and how many come to terms with ones culture/identity. Excellent tasteful film. Customer Rating: Summary: Better Read the Book Comment: It's easy to point out the many tiny flaws is this engaging little movie: the unexplained cruelty of the romantic lead to his American girlfriend, the weird conceit that a woman like Tabu could walk around in the world and not stop traffic,the disconnection of the scenes which make the movie feel like a book of short stories and the sad cinematography. What survives from the novel is the compelling poignancy of the isolation of the hero. I think that this very modern tale is better read than viewed. Lynn Hoffman More Reviews