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Product Description ------------------- Paul Marcus directs this children's adventure based on the classic book by Johanna ri. Young Heidi (Emma Bolger) is sent to live with her bad-tempered grandher (Max von Sydow) in the ains, and before long she has managed to cheer him up. But when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young disabled girl in Frankfurt, she discovers just how much she misses the ains, her grandher, and her animal friends. The cast also includes Geraldine Chin, Diana Rigg and Pauline McLynn. .co.uk Review ------------- The beloved tale of Heidi, the Swiss miss whose indomitable spirit touches all those around her, despite having been dealt a harsh hand in life, gets a spunky boost in this 2005 film adaptation. A stellar cast includes Max von Sydow ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Max%20von%20Sydow+-ntsc ) as Grandher, a roiling-with-inner-rage Geraldine Chin ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Geraldine%20Chin+-ntsc ) as Rottenmeier, and a benevolent Diana Rigg ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Diana%20Rigg+-ntsc ) as Grandmamma. At the centre of their world--like it or not--is Heidi, played with irrepressible optimism by the adorable Emma Bolger ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Emma%20Bolger+-ntsc ). As the orphaned Heidi is flung from home to home, city to city, valley to ain, by those who profess not to want her, she accepts her e and still manages to cast sunshine on her bleak situation. This version features breathtaking scenery--Grandher's ain aerie looks more like a Canadian Rockies summer spread than a place of self-imposed solitary confinement. At times the pan-European cast gives the film a feel of being the United Nations on location; Chin and Rigg's upper-crust British accents clash with von Sydow's clipped Swedish delivery, and Bolger's accent adorably reflects her Dublin roots. (Only the goats truly look Swiss.) But the story of Heidi has a huge heart, and this film is family entertainment in the best sense of the word. --A.T. Hurley