Flatland: The Movie |  | Directors: Dano Johnson, Jeffrey Travis
Actors: Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Tony Hale
Studio: Flat World Productions, LLC
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $19.95
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 17926
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), English (Published)
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Rating: G (General Audience)
Edition: DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 36 Minutes
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.7 x 7.6
ISBN: 1604615370
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781604615371
ASIN: 1604615370
Publication Date: 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | ISBN13: 9781604615371 | | • | Condition: NEW | | • | Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. |
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Product Description
The only OFFICIAL version of FLATLAND: THE MOVIE.
The movie features the voices of Martin Sheen, Michael York and Kristen Bell.
FLATLAND is an exciting half-hour animated film adapted from Edwin Abbott's classic novel, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension. The movie stars the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Michael York, and Joe Estevez.
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 Flatland is anything but Flat! January 31, 2010
LSK (Princeton, NJ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a high school mathematics teacher and have shown this film to my geometry accelerated classes for the last 3 years. I have also shown it to math students of different ability levels. They all seem to love it, including the extras at the end of the DVD. It is thought-provoking, entertaining and educational on many levels. I understand that "Sphereland - the Movie" is in the works!
Wake up the class January 20, 2010
dooniexc (In IN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a teacher hoping to get your students actually thinking, show them this.
Great tool for teachers! January 11, 2010
Hemant Mehta
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a high school math teacher, and for the past couple years I have shown my students this movie whether they were in a lower-level or Honors-level class. Regardless of age or skill, they have absolutely loved it. Watching and discussing the movie is consistently among their favorite memories of our class. More importantly, their curiosity about tesseracts (fourth-dimensional analogs of a cube) and string theory (which hypothesizes eleven dimensions) extends well beyond the classroom.
When I began teaching, the only popular movie about math was Donald in Mathmagic Land, a Disney film from 1959 featuring Donald Duck. As enduring as that movie has been, I can say from experience it doesn't connect as well with modern students.
Flatland: The Movie doesn't have that problem.
There are a few notable differences from the book, which should be expected when trying to condense all the original material into a half-hour production aimed at children. Women are no longer the lesser of the sexes (they are polygons just like the men; one woman even serves as a boss), and the main character, now named Arthur Square, is given a granddaughter (appropriately named "Hex").
The differences here, though, don't hurt the movie. If anything, students who enjoyed the movie were enthusiastic about reading the book.
This should be required viewing for any twenty-first century math teacher.
Flatland Rocks! January 9, 2010
Amanda S. Rowe
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is a great rendition of the book! It adapted Edwin Abbott's story extremely well and put it into modern terms. Highly recommend it for any Flatland fans out there!
far more watchable than 'the film'... November 12, 2009
TWP (Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This adaptation does stray from the original book quite a bit - but it is still a great story.
I bought both versions (the movie and the film) because I thought they would both be entertaining
I laughed and was entertained by "the Movie"- and it worked great as a fun family movie too. I will be taking this one into the classroom both to motivate some discussions and to celebrate math. It will be added to the repertoire of fun math movies in my cupboard (I actually had my school buy the educational version to keep everything legit).
It is 36 minutes long - just right for class.
I was very disappointed with "the film" was over-long (by an hour), incredibly tedious (my family groaned through it) and inconsistently executed (technically).
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