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Tolkien / director, Dome Karukoski ; writers David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford ; produced by Peter Chernin, Dan Finlay, David Greenbaum, Sarada McDermott, David Ready, Kris Thykier, Jenno Topping. - Widescreen. - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2019 - 1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Special features: audio commentary by director ; First look ; Deleted scenes ; Gallery.

Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult, Laura Donnelly, Patrick Gibson, Genevieve O'Reilly, Pam Ferris, Derek Jacobi, Colm Meaney, Craig Roberts, Tom Glynn-Carney.

Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their fellowship apart. All of these experiences would later inspire him to write his famous Middle-earth novels.

MPAA rating: PG-13 for some sequences of war violence.


DVD ; widescreen (2.39:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0 ; NTSC, region 1.


English Spanish or French audio; Spanish or French subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); English described video.

Standard No.: 024543637677 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Publisher. No.: 2363767 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 12368703

Subjects--Personal Names:
Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 --Drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

LC Class. No.: PN1997.2 / .T65 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72