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Jul 23, 2012aqiva rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
closed-captions and/or subtitles: There are no closed-captions but sub-titles are available as a choice for English language use. The SDH [subtitles for the deaf & hearing impaired] titles are very good: Large, enhanced-yellow letters over a black background; very sharp & crisp, easy-to-read. There is intermittent Italian language spoken by Italian characters in the movie: this dialogue has tiny, fuzzy/ blurry white letters (obviously made for movie theater distribution in English language speaking countries). Unless one has a very large computer screen or tv screen/dvd player screen to watch the movie on the Italian language titles will be very hard to read: try opera glasses, binoculars or sitting two feet from your tv/dvd player's screen. ~ The movie itself was overwhelmingly a downer: Depressed and depressing characters w/ undeveloped roles barely met by the script. The producer & director could have used another screenwriter to review & make changes. The older daughter's character was nasty; her use of foul language came across as gratuitous. It would've bee nice had the script provided a background story as to why an Englishman was living w/ and married to an American woman in Chicago... this could've been easily accomplished in several words, such as a story line that he & his late wife had met in college, or England or wherever (as the Firth character was obviously not American by background).