Product Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge - swimming the English Channel. But as Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan, Braveheart, Trainspotting) plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance. On a Clear Day is an inspirational and heartwarming story of family, friends and one amazing adventure that will stay with you forever!
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An independent film from Britain, On a Clear Day tells the story of a man trying to come to terms with his past by setting a goal for the future: to swim across the English Channel. Frank (Peter Mullan) is a stoic man who tells his young grandson, "Things aren't meant to be fixed nowadays." After working all his life, the Glasgow shipbuilder finds himself middle-aged and jobless. His loving wife Joan (two-time Academy Award nominee Brenda Blethyn) tries to lessen the financial burden by learning to become a bus driver. Frank's relationship with his househusband son Rob (Jamie Sives) is distant at best. And though he doesn't speak of his other son, who drowned decades ago, Frank thinks of him often. Director Gaby Dellal reveals a gentle touch in the film's quieter moments. But she's just at home balancing the melodramatic moments (Rob confronting his father in a swimming pool) with comic relief (Frank's friendship with a woebegone group of men, including optimistic Danny, played by Billy Boyd from The Lord of the Rings). In the end, it's less important whether Frank's goals are met than mending his broken relationships. The finale is touching in the way it all plays out, because some things are meant to be fixed. --Jae-Ha Kim
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches; 2.96 ounces
- Director : Gaby Dellal
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, AC-3
- Run time : 1 hour and 39 minutes
- Release date : September 4, 2007
- Actors : Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Billy Boyd, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Sarah Curtis, Dorothy Berwin
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- Writers : Alex Rose
- Number of discs : 1
