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	I Capture the Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I Capture the Castle was the first novel written by Dodie Smith, published in 1948.
		The plot centers on 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family, struggling to live in a decaying English castle in the 1930s.
		It is down to Cassandra and her brother Thomas to get their father to write again whilst trying to stop him going crazy, meanwhile Cassandra battles with her feelings for Simon and records it all in her journal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/I_Capture_the_Castle (296 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
		I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle.
		Mortmain's celebrated novel is described throughout I Capture the Castle as a literary breakthrough, a predecessor to James Joyce's work, and meriting the analysis of famous literary critics.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/i_capture_the_castle1.asp (619 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: I Capture the Castle
		The Popkorn Junkie :: I Capture the Castle
		But one day, the sons and heirs of the property arrive at the castle and both men instantly fall in love with Rose who is the prettiest and outgoing of the sisters.
		From the dark gray walls of the castle surrounded by the lush green of the countryside to the dark moat that runs around the outside, the look of the film is simply marvelous.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/icapturethecastle.html (806 words)

	IMDb user comments for I Capture the Castle (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"I Capture the Castle" has a strong cast but Cassandra is the centerpiece as she shows developing resolve and growth.
		From what I can tell, the sadness or the joy is as real as it is. Another thing is that her narration (also written in the journal she writes in the movie) interspersed in most of the scenes, gives the audience an insight to her feelings and her deepest fears.
		With all the side stories aside, I feel Castle was meant for audiences to see Cassandra's coming of age and how she deals with the plethora of emotions that hits her.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0300015/usercomments (2327 words)

	I Capture the Castle (2003): Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Bill Nighy - PopMatters Film Review
		Indeed, I Capture the Castle is about the experience of Cassandra and those around her falling in love, trying to understand their feelings, and dealing with broken hearts.
		While the Cottons are temporarily housed on their ancestral estate (the brothers' father was English) near the castle, the Mortmains hope to marry Rose off to one of the brothers, preferably Simon, since he is heir to the family fortune.
		This is where she attempts to "capture" the castle, to document what it means to live in the castle and be a member of the Mortmain family.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/i-capture-the-castle.shtml (1277 words)

	I Capture The Castle [2003] - DVD - Title I Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		I Capture The Castle [2003] : I was captivated by the castl eand the characters
		One such gem was a BBC made film I Capture the Castle which enchanted and captivated me with its beautiful cinematography, period costumes and its gentle witty humour.
		I Capture the Castle was one I meant to see at the cinema but for some reason I missed it but a couple of nights ago I sat down to watch it in the on the small screen on video.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-i/i-capture-the-castle-2003 (268 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - I Capture The Castle
		I Capture the Castle is a warm and very sweet little coming-of-age fable that, despite some winning performances and an all-around good heart, never quite charms quite as much as it wants to.
		Unable to pay the rent on the castle and struggling to scrape together the money for a decent meal, things are looking grim until the arrival of the Cottons, a wealthy American family who take over the property after the owner's death.
		While I have no problem recommending I Capture the Castle to teenage girls, its primary target audience, or anyone who enjoys this sort of romantic melodrama, I only wish the film's strongest elements, of which there are many, had added up to a more satisfying whole.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/icapturecastle.php (1496 words)

	I Capture the Castle
		By the same token, I Capture the Castle is not just a film of a juvenile romance novel.
		As it turns out, they are only renting the castle, and they are about to be evicted in the 1930s when a turn of fate takes control of their landlord's estate from some impersonal bankers to a family of very rich Americans who come to England to check out their newly inherited English assets.
		The principal new landlords are two very handsome and single young men, who take one look at the poor girls (the diary writer and her too-beautiful-for-words sister), and decide that eviction is not in their immediate future.
	www.scoopy.com /icapture.htm (1001 words)

	I Capture the Castle
		The Mortmains are a madly eccentric English family, held on the verge of financial ruin in an ancient, crumbling castle in the countryside during the 1930’s.
		Rose, her older sister is a red-haired beauty with a passionate desire to escape the castle and the family’s poverty.
		The dark, dank castle has a rough beauty and the sets and costumes are lush.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/I/i_capture_the_castle.htm (317 words)

	Amazon.com: I Capture the Castle: Books: Dodie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The plot of "I Capture the Castle" sounds, on its surface, a little Cinderella-y: two genteely impoverished sisters of between-the-wars Britain live in a ruined castle with their eccentric novelist father and his bohemian wife Topaz.
		I Capture the Castle is one of the most moving books I have read in recent years.
		Enter two wealthy, half-American brothers, one of whom actually owns the castle and the land it stands on, and the stage is set for romance (both requited and unrequited), misunderstandings, comedy, and Cassandra's own poignant coming of age.
	www.amazon.com /I-Capture-Castle-Dodie-Smith/dp/0312201656 (2465 words)

	Capture the Castle - Going Out Gurus
		Starting tomorrow, the landmark Brewmaster's Castle is hoping to get in on the neighborhood's cultural scene.
		Christian Heurich's 19th-century mansion, which had been facing a $250,000 debt and a possible sale, dodged a bullet earlier this year when a rush of public interest led to increased revenues from admissions fees and guided tours.
		Hoping to build on the revived curiosity about the house, billed as "the most intact Victorian residence in the country," a group called Friends of the Brewmaster's Castle is now organizing open houses with live music on the first Friday of the month.
	blog.washingtonpost.com /goingoutgurus/2006/04/capture_the_castle.html (307 words)

	I Capture the Castle
		Then the Americans come and muck things up in "I Capture the Castle," a delightful coming-of-age movie that teeters on contrivance but never topples.
		At this point, "Castle" goes from fanciful to dramatic, a somewhat disconcerting shift but one that suits Garai, who's too naturalistic for whimsy.
		"I Capture the Castle" carries an R rating, putting it out of reach of the literate, curious teenage girls who might have made up its audience.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/ICAPTURETHECASTLE.DTL&type=movies (429 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classic): Books: Dodie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I'd seen 'I Capture the Castle' in the teenage section of my local library and on numerous occasions picked it up and read the back cover and put it back down, not quite feeling compelled to read it that time, swearing to myself that one day I would read it.
		It chronicles her life in an old castle with her father who is suffering from writer's block, her stepmother Topaz, a model, her fiery sister Rose and younger brother Thomas.
		This book is about 17 year old Cassandra Mortmain, who lives in a romantic castle in the depths of Suffolk with her shadowy stepmther(not evil), eccentric father and her siblings Rose and Thomas.
	www.amazon.co.uk /I-Capture-Castle-Vintage-Classic/dp/0099460874 (1330 words)

	"I Capture the Castle" - Salon
		Dodie Smith's dashingly unsentimental 1948 novel "I Capture the Castle" is one of the lost classics of coming-of-age literature.
		Smith's first novel (she would later go on to write the wonderful, and better-known, "The Hundred and One Dalmatians") is back in fashion again, having been republished in the United States four years ago.
		Now it's also a movie, a quiet, charming picture (if not a dazzling one) that's true in spirit to its source material, capturing most of the carefully-shaped dimensions of Smith's characters, as well as much of her sharpness about the exceedingly unromantic reality of poverty.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/07/11/castle/index.html (1102 words)

	BBC - Films - review - I Capture the Castle
		It stars Romola Garai as teenager Cassandra Mortmain, an aspiring writer who documents the lives of her oddball family, resident in a dilapidated castle in 30s Suffolk.
		Cassandra has a thorny relationship with her father (Bill Nighy), a self-indulgent novelist suffering from creative block, and is resigned to living in the shadow of her beautiful sister Rose - played archetypically wild and wicked by Rose Byrne.
		Even so, "I Capture the Castle" combines enough subtle humour and honest insights to offer a welcome antidote to the recent slew of gross-out teen flicks more concerned with baring ass than baring soul.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/04/30/i_capture_the_castle_2003_review.shtml (402 words)

	I Capture the Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		LONDON -- "I Capture the Castle" is a classy adaptation of the much-loved Dodie Smith classic written a few years before she wrote the children's staple "101 Dalmatians."
		The unusual Mortmain family lives in a dilapidated castle in Sussex, where they are very much cut off from the world.
		Then their money runs out, and just as bad, the family is two years in arrears on the rent for the castle.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1890246 (580 words)

	Amazon.fr : I Capture the Castle: Livres en anglais: Dodie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Amazon.fr : I Capture the Castle: Livres en anglais: Dodie Smith
		Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block.
		Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good.
	www.amazon.fr /I-Capture-Castle-Dodie-Smith/dp/0312201656 (435 words)

	I Capture the Castle
		After finishing I Capture the Castle, one cannot help but notice the similarities to last year's Nicholas Nickleby.
		Garai had a small role in Nicholas Nickleby, and I Capture the Castle is her first lead role.
		The Cotton family owns the land and the castle that the Mortmains live on, and Rose increasingly sees Simon (Henry Thomas, Gangs of New York, All the Pretty Horses) as a way out of poverty.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/i_capture_the_castle.html (636 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -I Capture The Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith
		I Capture The Castle (1948) by Dodie Smith
		I always thought that 'I Capture the Castle' was my own private secret.
		The memory of the impact the book had on me has floated in and out of my mind for the last fifty years and reminded me of the variety of ways that lives can be lived and that there is always the possibilty of change.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/wwf_capture_the_castle.shtml (527 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - I Capture The Castle
		Cassandra has captured the heart of their handyman, Stephen (Henry Cavill), so much that he sticks around even though it's been a while since he's been paid.
		Two American brothers, Simon (Henry Thomas) and Neil (Marc Blucas), show up as the new owner's of the castle, their presence threatens to upset the precarious balance of the family.
		The look of this film is amazing - they capture the beauty of the castle, the romance of the countryside and the coast.
	www.themoviechicks.com /summer2003/mcricapturecastle.html (502 words)

	I Capture The Castle
		Summary: I Capture the Castle is a journal written by the fictional Cassandra Mortmain, fourteen years old at the time of her first journal entry.
		I Capture the Castle starts out mildly interesting, as it's reasonably well written, but the content gets worse and worse towards the end.
		I Capture The Castle is supposed to be original, which is quite true--it's full of very original sin.
	bookangles.com /angles/a-l/ICaptureTheCastle.htm (772 words)

	I Capture the Castle. Tim Fywell. \| The Stop Button \| Andrew Wickliffe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I Capture the Castle, the film, plays like a combination of Cold Comfort Farm and Pride and Prejudice.
		The director lensed the film in 2.35:1, which tends to require a lot of talent when the subject matter is people.
		He hasn’t got the talent (from his filmography, it looks like he’s done mostly TV movies and Castle was his only chance for glorious Panavision), but the English country-side scenery is pretty.
	www.thestopbutton.com /i_capture_the_castle._tim_f.html (387 words)

	I Capture the Castle (2003) - MovieWeb
		This film is about a 17-year-old girl, Cassandra Mortmain, and her very unusual family that consists of a writer for a father, who hasn't written a word in 12 years, her nudist mother and her brother and sister.
		While the family is living in a decaying old castle somewhere in England they meet the rightful owners, American brothers Neil and Simon and their mother.
		In a bid to ensure the family is kept in good standing Cassandra's father tries to arrange the marriage of his two daughters to the wealthy boys.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/58/758/summary.php (164 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I Capture The Castle [2003]: Video: Tim Fywell,Marc Blucas,Rose Byrne,Sinéad Cusack,Tara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But the decaying castle loses its appeal as her novelist father (Bill Nighy) develops writer's block and her mother dies of cancer.
		From this sad beginning, I Capture the Castle becomes an utterly engaging coming-of-age story as 17-year-old Cassandra and her older sister Rose (Rose Byrne) struggle to win the attentions of their new American landlord (Henry Thomas)--but when everything goes the way Cassandra wishes, her hopes fall apart.
		I Capture the Castle is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra (Romola Garai).
	www.amazon.co.uk /I-Capture-Castle-Tim-Fywell/dp/B00011FXSC (2112 words)

	I Capture The Castle - Movie Review
		Based on Dodie Smith’s novel, I Capture the Castle gives us a 17-year-old named Cassandra (Romola Garai), who spends most of her time writing in her journal.
		Nighy is solid as the castle’s patriarch, a man who uses his eccentricities to avoid living up to his past literary brilliance.
		I Capture the Castle tells romantic truths in a beautiful and indelible way, traits that come along far too infrequently.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/icapturethecastle (639 words)

	Salon Books \| For love and money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The atmosphere of Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle" is so plummy and familiar that you sink right down into it, as if you were returning to a cherished vacation spot.
		It doesn't diminish the book's comforts that the opening is given over to the 17-year-old narrator's description of the conditions of damp and cold and hunger in which her genteelly impoverished family live.
		Cassandra's stepmother, Topaz ("there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that," Cassandra says), is a flighty but good-hearted younger woman who occasionally contributes to the coffers by taking up her old profession of artist's model.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/05/06/smith (667 words)

	Capture The Castle : Creative Home Accessories UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Capture the Castle opened its doors to the public in 2004.
		We opened with a vision in mind, to provide Beautiful Furniture and accessories at affordable prices, using fair trade organizations and environmentally friendly products where possible.
		We are very excited to be stocking this range and hope you will love it as much as we do.
	www.capturethecastle.co.uk (198 words)

	I capture the castle
		She lives in a castle where also live: her strange father, stepmother Topaz, sister Rose, brother Thomas and help Stephen.
		When the family of which they rent the castle, comes to England (from the USA) the story really sets of.
		Two young men, Simon and Neil, belong to that family and steal the harts of Rose and Cassandra with whom Stephen is hopelessly in love.
	www.home.zonnet.nl /drs_stupid/icapturethecastle.html (154 words)

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