Gosford Park

Resource Information

The work Gosford Park represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Gosford Park

Statement of responsibility

USA Films presents in association with Capitol Films and the Film Council a Sandcastle 5 production in association with Chicagofilms and Medusa Film ; producers, Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, David Levy ; written by Julian Fellowes ; directed by Robert Altman

Creator

• Gosford Park (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Capitol Films
• Chicagofilms (Firm)
• Film Council (Great Britain)
• Medusa Film
• Sandcastle 5 Productions
• USA Films (Firm)
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Altman, Robert, 1925-2006
• Altman, Stephen
• Atkins, Eileen, 1934-
• Balaban, Bob
• Bates, Alan, 1934-2003
• Beavan, Jenny, 1950-
• Dance, Charles
• Doyle, Patrick, 1953-
• Dunn, Andrew, (Andrew William)
• Fellowes, Julian
• Fry, Stephen, 1957-
• Gambon, Michael
• Grant, Richard E., 1957-
• Hollander, Tom, 1967-
• Jacobi, Derek
• L?vy, David
• MacDonald, Kelly, 1976-
• Mirren, Helen
• Northam, Jeremy, 1961-
• Owen, Clive
• Phillippe, Ryan, 1974-
• Scott-Thomas, Kristin, 1960-
• Smith, Maggie, 1934-
• Somerville, Geraldine
• Squyres, Tim
• Thompson, Sophie, 1962-
• Watson, Emily, 1967-
• Wilby, James

Subject

• Aristocracy (Social class) -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Detective and mystery films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Household employees -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Murder -- Drama
• Social classes -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered

Awards note

Academy Award, 2002: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Julian Fellowes).

Cataloging source

LVL

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editor, Tim Squyres ; music, Patrick Doyle ; costumes, Jenny Beavan ; production design, Stephen Altman

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some language and brief sexuality

Language note

In English, with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired and optional Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

• PN1997.2
• PN1997

LC item number

• .G67 2002
• .G6485

PerformerNote

Eileen Atkins, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Tom Hollander, Derek Jacobi, Kelly MacDonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Geraldine Somerville, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Thompson, Emily Watson, James Wilby

Runtime

138

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action