Edison: The Wizard of Light | 
| Director: David Devine
Actors: Kenneth Welsh, Susannah Hoffmann, David Storch, Jesse Collins, Michal Suchanek
Studio: Repnet
Category: Video
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 43991
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full Length, Full Screen, Surround Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 53
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1894449045
UPC: 699359100532
EAN: 9781894449045
ASIN: B00000K0B6
Release Date: July 16, 1999
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Condition: NEW in shrink wrap
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New York City, 1931. Movie producer Jack Maloney has just completed a labor of love: his documentary on the life of the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Jack wants his wife, actress Kate Cruthers, to take a look. What results is an engaging, Emmy Award-winning family drama about the 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration required to build an impassioned life. As Jack's "documentary" clicks along, we learn that he met Edison (played with great sincerity by Kenneth Welsh) while fleeing from St. Patrick's Orphanage in 1893. Chased by truancy officers, the then-12-year-old boy (actor Michael Suchanek) ran smack into Edison's New Jersey lab, winning Edison's affections and landing a long-term apprentice job. Believable conversations between mentor and student about education, life, and the invention of Edison's light bulb and phonograph are dotted with many recognizable, timely quotations. As the film follows their 35-year relationship, viewers see how Edison dedicated his life to "the betterment of mankind" and sacrificed time with his family as a result. The unspoken father-son bond between the two men--stronger than Edison's relationship with his own wife and children--comes to a head as the adult Jack (Jesse Collins) challenges Edison's tenacity. Reconciliation and a deeper empathy for each other's choices caps off this nicely paced, beautifully filmed and scored presentation. A well-spent hour for families with children over 6 years old or for elementary school students studying American inventors. --Liane Thomas
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One of the Best of the Inventors' Specials April 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The premise of this story about a runaway who runs into Thomas Edison's lab sounded, well, not that good. After watching it, it was apparent a lot of thought went into this story and it works very well. From what I have read of Edison he is portrayed in this dvd as he really was. Also recommended from the Inventors Specials are Marie Curie More Than Meets the Eye and Newton A Tale of Two Isaacs. The Edison dvd is a favorite of the Inventor Specials because it shows the influence Edison had on this young person's life later as an adult.
Wow! September 29, 2000
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was a great movie! Amazing! I love it! 5/5 stars, all the way!
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