Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

Release Date: 2005-05-03, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA these moody set devices--and countless others--make every scene an atmospheric vision of souped-up 19th-century Gothic bliss. Christine Daee a luminescent Emmy Rossum is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom Gerard Butler--who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000 a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement yet sings to her obsessively. Dwelling in the dark damp chambers beneath the Paris opera house the phantom lords over the cast and management with artistic autocracy--he writes the shows casts them and threatens all who disobey his plans with dramatically violent outbursts. But when his young student Christine falls for the rich and dapper Raoul Patrick Wilson the phantom descends into madness. Webber's memorable songs ar

Release Date: 2005-05-03, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

Film-Opera DVD - The Phantom of the Opera (DVD)

DVDs. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

DVDs. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA these moody set devices--and countless others--make every scene an atmospheric vision of souped-up 19th-century Gothic bliss. Christine Daee a luminescent Emmy Rossum is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom Gerard Butler--who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000 a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement yet sings to her obsessively. Dwelling in the dark damp chambers beneath the Paris opera house the phantom lords over the cast and management with artistic autocracy--he writes the shows casts them and threatens all who disobey his plans with dramatically violent outbursts. But when his young student Christine falls for the rich and dapper Raoul Patrick Wilson the phantom descends into madness. Webber's memorable songs ar

Film-Opera DVD - The Phantom of the Opera (DVD)

Release Date: 2005-05-03, Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested),

DVDs. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera

Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA these moody set devices--and countless others--make every scene an atmospheric vision of souped-up 19th-century Gothic bliss. Christine Daee a luminescent Emmy Rossum is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom Gerard Butler--who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000 a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement yet sings to her obsessively. Dwelling in the dark damp chambers beneath the Paris opera house the phantom lords over the cast and management with artistic autocracy--he writes the shows casts them and threatens all who disobey his plans with dramatically violent outbursts. But when his young student Christine falls for the rich and dapper Raoul Patrick Wilson the phantom descends into madness. Webber's memorable songs ar