The Governess

This movie is about a Jewish girl, who has to for financial reasons go and work for a family that does not know that she is Jewish. She has very strong faith, but she keeps this to her self. She eventually... Full review

I have to write a review for this film because there are only two on the site and both of them are negative. And this movie is not bad. It was a beautiful film with brilliant acting from Minnie Driver and... Full review

The female star in this movie is vindictive. She is the governess for a married man, has an affair with him. Takes his picture while he is in the nude without his knowledge. He tries to break off the affair and... Full review

The acing is just fine, no problem there, but the plot leaves you feeling empty. I was disappointed I purchased this movie. The Governess falls for her employer and he for her for a while. She is free'r sexually, but the... Full review

The Governess repays sustained consideration.....unfair to their movie....disdainful images.... ... Full Review

while skilled, all get in the way of the story by demanding we pay attention to the film's precious beauty and nobility of purpose.....But in general the self-righteous clucking of this film condemns it to the well-populated bin of visually interesting and ultimately forgettable period pieces..... ... Full Review

It affords a terrific role for Minnie Driver, who holds the film together with her talent, star presence and distinctive beauty, yet even she can't save it from its serious shortage of humor and detachment. Obviously, the situation is as volatile as any chemical in Cavendish's lab, and Goldbacher really lays it on when Cavendish's son (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is sent down from university in disgrace, only to find himself overwhelmingly attracted to Mary. ... Full Review

The father ( Tom Wilkinson ) is a man obsessed with the new science of photography, and spends long hours in his studio and darkroom, as indeed anyone married to his ignorant and controlling wife (Harriet Walter) would have great inspiration to do. Minnie Driver , grave and thoughtful between moments of high spirits and passion, plays Rosina, who grew up in a Sephardic Jewish community in London. ... Full Review

Minnie Driver gets a showy workout in "The Governess," a beautifully crafted, if ultimately opaque, study of art, sensuality and outsider status in early Victorian England. What she finds at their bleak manor (exteriors were shot on the Isle of Arran) is one seriously dysfunctional unit, with a mother (Harriet Walter) slowly boring herself to death, a consumptive teenage son (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) with the instant hots for the newcomer and a small daughter ("Fairy Tale's" Florence Hoath ... Full Review

In an interview with the UK's Times newspaper, wonderbeard George Lucas confesses that both he and Steven Spielberg are up for a fifth instalment of Indiana Jones (not surprising considering Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull 's... ... Full Article

Jennifer Lopez has agreed to star in romantic comedy The Governess , reports Variety . The film focuses on a thief who poses as a nanny to a rich widower's three children. ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Before seeing The Governess , I never thought of Minnie Driver as a sex symbol. A good actress with charismatic screen presence, yes... but a sex symbol? ... Full Article