| Cranford: Return to Cranford |  | Director: Simon Curtis
Actors: Lesley Sharp, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Hiddleston, Jonathan Pryce, Matthew McNulty
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,863
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 177 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.8
MPN: 883929099481
UPC: 883929099481
EAN: 0883929099481
ASIN: B002XTBEDI
Release Date: January 19, 2010
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Product Description
Follows the adventures of the people in the English town of Cranford and their worries about the encroaching railroad.
Amazon.com
The two-part saga Return to Cranford opens to a struggling Cranford, a traditional English village that in autumn 1844 is airing the conflicts that accompany progress. Miss Matty Jenkyns (Judi Dench), after having closed her business in the last series, is happily babysitting the child of her maid, Martha (Claudie Blakley). This gives the ladies in town something to gossip about, as does every other small event in this chatty group. The same women populate this new Cranford--the snooty Miss Jamieson (Barbara Flynn), nosy Miss Pole (Imelda Staunton), Miss Forrester (Julia McKenzie), Peggy (Jodie Whittaker), and Erminia (Michelle Dockery)--while a few new men added into the mix creates options for love interests throughout. In Part One, Peggy, visiting her dead father's grave, bumps into William Baxton (Tom Hiddleston), a young and dapper gentleman who becomes a central character in Cranford's growing divide between those who want a railroad coming through town and those who don't. While politics are sorted, scenes alternate between heated public debates and intimate domestic exchanges to make Return to Cranford as charming as the first incarnations of this historical drama. The emphasis on the ways the women in town navigate thorny social situations remains primary in Return to Cranford. Babies are born and the elderly pass away while the ladies busily decide what to make of it all. While Part One focuses on catch-up, showing where each crone stands on the latest current events, Part Two attempts more to challenge outmoded cultural values such as elitism and to show how the community members toughen up to become a courageous bunch. Unfortunately, Miss Matty discovers that solidarity is hard to come by in this small village, and Part Two is as much about a town falling apart as it is about ways to heal sore feelings and a violated landscape. Ultimately, life marches on in this pleasurably fictionalized glimpse into England's past. --Trinie Dalton
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Return to Cranford September 6, 2010
P C Kelly
Return to Cranford is a really good watch. Loved Cranford so much, at the moment it is difficult to see if it will match up. The acting is of a high quality, just gotta get used to the story line having moved on.
 Really Disappointing September 2, 2010
Scarlet O'Hara (Richmond, VA USA)
Take my advice: stick to the First series "Cranford"...don't bother buying this...I was so disappointed. The story line barely follows the first "Cranford" and there are so many new added people that it just doesn't make any sense at all. I wish I had not wasted my money on this one. The first "Cranford" was so very good and the story was wonderful...so I was really pumped to see the sequel. But in the first 5 minutes of watching "Return to Cranford"...I thought "Uh-Oh" and I was right. I normally love the BBC stuff but this one just stinks. Not good at all.
 Loved It! August 10, 2010
brett williams (VA)
Loved this and would like to own it. It does have more drama, but unlike one review, I don't believe that it is sadder...what could be sadder than Deborah and Mr. Holobrook dying?
A Bit Sadder Cranford July 20, 2010
Julia A. Andrews (Peoria, Illinois)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It would have been impossible to top "Cranford" but this second part can take us back to that sleepy hamlet. Many of the outstanding original cast members that were so wonderful return to reprise their roles in this continuation.
There has been a two year gap since part one ended. I must agree with a previous reviewer who found "Return" a bit sadder and emptier than the original. I loved the original story so much that a sequel could have never done it justice in my eyes no matter what. Even then it was far better than a dozen other sequels.
Enjoy the film!
CRANFORD: RETURN TO CRANFORD June 17, 2010
MONTY (USA)
THE DVD AND THE BOX WERE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. WOULD BUY FROM
THIS SELLER AGAIN.
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