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Your Learning Zone - Serving in Silence: Margarethe Cammermeyer
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes
Directed By: Jeff Bleckner
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767823920
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0767823923
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1999-11-09
Running Time: 92
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Summary: Serving in Silence
Comment: True story line, faithful reproduction of existing situation. Brilliant casting & acting, will watch again soon.
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Summary: Una inspiración
Comment: Ver esta pelÃcula causa una inspiración en cada ser humano...por hacer valer derechos sobre la intolerancia y la marginación...No se puede uno quedar atrás, hay que dar el paso y defenser lo que tanto se ama.
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Summary: Grethe's Story
Comment: Thought the film was excellent. Judy Davis and Glenn Close were excellent. I have the good fortune to know Grethe and her partner Diane. Glenn Close really captured her. There were times when I saw her from behind that I thought it really was Grethe. I think the script could have been better written which is why I only gave it 4 stars. The ending in particular was anticlimatic, ended with a whimper not a bang. Worth seeing. Her story is admirable and very courageous.
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Summary: An amazing depiction
Comment: This movie contains an incredible cast, with an INCREDIBLE story. Margarethe Cammermeyer, Colonel in the United States Army discloses during a security clearence upgrade that she is a lesbian. Her poignent take on her identiy, "I connect emotionally to women" and her self-examination during her security interview has to be one of the most honest portrayls of lesbian identity.
In the end, you will cry and be outraged. But you will be proud and applauding at the end. Also, Glenn Close isn't bad to look at either!
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Summary: M. Cammermeyer
Comment: I was lucky enough to have received a tape of this when it aired in the mid-1990s. However, I am glad that many others will now get to see it. The film does not stray for from the book, something I also recommend.
Within the gay community, there are concerns that the young, men, the happily out, etc. get center stage in media representations at the expense of others. This work speaks to rarely mentioned audiences: women, an older person, a closeted person in the military, and a person who had a heterosexual past. Personally, I thought Glenn Close fit this role much better than she did the vampy personas in "Fatal Attraction" or "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."
Too many people think that "gays" are constantly "pushing their agenda." Here, we see that Cammermeyer came out only in order to be honest in an interview. She had no intentions of becoming a spokesperson or an activist. Her future daughter-in-law says something like, "I plan on being nice to you despite your sin." I love that Cammermeyer challenged that half-buttockedness and said, "I raised my kids, paid my taxes, and obeyed the law like everyone else. This 'agreeing to disagree' won't cut it."
Because this was a made-for-TV movie, the places where commercials should be inserted will be obvious and may annoy some DVD viewers. Still, this documents an issue that was big in the 1990s after AIDS was diagnosed in the 1980s and before Massachusetts allowed gay marriage in the 2000s. I encourage many to view this.
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Glenn Close won an Emmy for her portrayal of Margarethe Cammermeyer in this 1995 made-for-television film. An army medical officer in line for a career promotion during the first Bush Administration, but suddenly faced discharge proceedings after admitting to being a lesbian, the real-life Cammermeyer became a focus of national attention on the issue of gays in the military. This sensitive production focuses on Cammermeyer's decision to fight institutional bigotry and the way her family and that of her longtime partner, Diane Divelbess (Judy Davis, who also won an Emmy), rally to support these good people. The script by Alison Cross captures the sad irony of doing everything right--serving one's country, taking care of the people in one's life--yet still being treated like a pariah for entirely irrational reasons. A bit of dismissible controversy arose about a discreet kiss between the principals, but for the most part this film is designed to win over the hearts and minds of a broad audience with its sheer humanity. --Tom Keogh
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