Walk in the Clouds

UPC: 024543057604

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Suitable for Children]

Summary: In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. While taking a sales trip to another town, he befriends a beautiful but distraught young woman, Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). While away at college, Victoria met and fell in love with a young man and soon became pregnant; however, when her boyfriend discovered she was expecting, he abandoned her. She returns home full of shame and fearful of her father's reaction. But Paul gets an idea -- he'll pose as her husband and leave after a day or two, so when she's left alone with the child, the disgrace will be on him, not her. Victoria agrees, and Paul joins Victoria as she arrives at her family's estate in the California wine country. Most of the Aragon family take to Paul readily enough, especially Grandfather Don Pedro (Anthony Quinn), but Victoria's father, Alberto (Giancarlo Giannini), senses something amiss between the young couple. A Walk In The Clouds was the first American film from director Alfonso Arau, who previously made the international hit Like Water For Chocolate. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Original Score – null Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccTheatrical trailer
Interactive menus
Scene selection
Anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1)
Full screen format (aspect ratio 1.33:1)
Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Walk in the Clouds

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/14/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen, 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 102 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Main Titles
2. Back From the War
3. To Work
4. The Bus
5. Helping Victoria
6. The Aragon Family
7. That Night
8. Frost
9. An Extra Day
10. The Harvest
11. Business
12. Rejection
13. Don Pedro
14. The Festival
15. Contemplation
16. San Francisco
17. Back to the Clouds
18. Fire
19. A Commitment
20. End Titles
1. Main Titles
2. Back From the War
3. To Work
4. The Bus
5. Helping Victoria
6. The Aragon Family
7. That Night
8. Frost
9. An Extra Day
10. The Harvest
11. Business
12. Rejection
13. Don Pedro
14. The Festival
15. Contemplation
16. San Francisco
17. Back to the Clouds
18. Fire
19. A Commitment
20. End Titles

Nick Sambides, Jr.

Cynics beware: A Walk in the Clouds is a voluptuously photographed exercise in romanticism that may seduce viewers away from their hard-bitten outlooks. Director Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate) gives the movie a soft-focus sweetness that might seem marshmallow if not for the work of Giancarlo Giannini and the late Anthony Quinn. Playing Alberto, the stern Mexican father of the lovely Victoria Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Giannini spits the fire and resentment of a wounded dragon outraged at the sudden, suspicious marriage of his daughter to American ex-serviceman Paul Sutton Keanu Reeves. Giannini and screenwriters Robert Mark Kamen and Mark Miller infuse Alberto with the deep emotional pain of someone who loves his family's traditions and hates their collapse. Romance and romanticism are never easy, so Alberto's pain grounds the emotional reality of the movie, as does the innocence displayed by Reeves and Sanchez-Gijon. The tug of war between Alberto and the other principals gives Quinn a chance to shine; he captures just the right tone of whimsy and wisdom as the family patriarch who knows it will work out well in the end. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi

Cast and Crew: Mary Pat Gleason  Actor 
Don Amendolia  Actor 
Brad Rea  Actor 
Febronio Covarrubias  Actor 
John Dennis Johnston  Actor 
Gregory Paul Martin  Actor 
Alejandra Flores  Actor 
Joseph Lindsey  Actor 
Macon McCalman  Actor 
Freddy Rodriguez  Actor 
Juan Antonio Jimenez  Actor 
Ivory Ocean  Actor 
Mark Miller  Screenwriter 
Alfonso Arau  Director 
Maurice Jarre  Composer (Music Score) 
Robert Mark Kamen  Screenwriter 
Gil Netter  Producer 
Jerry Zucker  Producer 
David Zucker  Producer 
James D. Brubaker  Executive Producer 
Harvey Weitzman  Screenwriter 
Keanu Reeves  Actor 
Aitana Sanchez-Gijon  Actor 
Anthony Quinn  Actor 
Giancarlo Giannini  Actor 
Angélica Aragón  Actor 
Evangelina Elizondo  Actor 

Country: USA