The nativity story

Resource Information

The work The nativity story represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimac Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The nativity story

Statement of responsibility

New Line Cinema presents a Temple Hill production ; produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen ; written by Mike Rich ; directed by Catherine Hardwicke

Contributor

• New Line Cinema Corporation
• New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Temple Hill (Firm)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Abbass, Hiam
• Aghdashloo, Shohreh, 1952-
• Bowen, Marty
• Castle-Hughes, Keisha, 1990-
• Danna, Mychael
• Fortunato, Emilia
• Godfrey, Wyck
• Hardwicke, Catherine
• Hinds, Ciarán, 1953-
• Isaac, Oscar
• Rich, Mike, 1959-
• Siddig, Alexander, 1965-
• Toub, Shaun
• Townsend, Stanley

Subject

• Bethlehem -- Drama
• Bible films
• Feature films
• Jesucristo -- Natividad -- Teatro
• Jesus Christ -- Drama
• Jesus Christ -- Nativity -- Drama
• Joseph, Saint -- Drama
• Magi -- Drama
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Drama
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Motherhood -- Drama
• Mes de María -- Teatro
• Prophecy -- Drama
• Religious films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Bible films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Religious films
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Robert K. Lambert ; music, Mychael Danna ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; production designer, Stefano Maria Ortolani

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; for some violent content

Language note

• In English with optional English or Spanish subtitles
• Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.R4

LC item number

N3858589 2007

PerformerNote

Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Ciarán Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Emilia Fortunato, Alexander Siddig

Runtime

101

Target audience

general

Technique

live action