Six Minutes to Midnight

Starring: Lindsay, Nigel and Dench, Judi

Product Description

In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Studio Distribution Servi
• Director: Goddard, Andy
• Starring: Lindsay, Nigel, Dench, Judi
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD; NTSC
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

I know why it is called “Six Minutes to Midnight.” You will have to watch to find out.

An interesting independent film. You will probably come to this film with preconceptions. You may be right, but I doubt it. It is August 15, 1939, in the United Kingdom. We all know what that means. The setting is a coastal boarding school. Not just any boarding school, but one for 20 German teenage girls. One faction in Germany wants the girls back before they become pawns in a war. One faction in the UK wants just that. Captain Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard, who is one of the story's writers) is sent undercover as a teacher to find out whether there are any nefarious shenanigans. . Now Tomas Miller is in the spot as his father is German and his mother English. He does not approve of either the radical group that sent him to spy or the far-right National Socialist German Workers' Party. He just wants the girls left alone. The house’s mother and owner, Miss Rocholl (Dame Judi Dench), has no clue as to what is going on. I will not go into the details of the story, as you will want to watch it unfold. The subtitle person must be asleep at the wheel. Several times, there are no subtitles, and sometimes they say, “Speaking a foreign language.” Luckily, they speak clearly enough that you do not need the subtitles. The DVD version has a nice extra where they explain the whys and hows of the movie.