Product Description

Lover's Prayer is a sweeping tale of an innocent rich boy's (Nick Stahl) infatuation with a beautiful young woman (Kirsten Dunst) who is summering next door. He quickly abandons toys and pastimes for the thrill of her seductive ways. But when he is finally confronted with who she really is and the tangled web she has spun, he is forced to become a man and understand that the world is more complicated than he ever suspected.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53913 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-03-20
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

From the Back Cover
Lover's Prayer is a sweeping tale of an innocent rich boy's (Nick Stahl) infatuation with a beautiful young woman (Kirsten Dunst) who is summering next door. He quickly abandons his toys and pastimes for the thrill of her seductive ways. But, when he is finally confronted with who she really is and the tangled web she has spun, he is forced to become a man and understand that the world is more complicated than he ever suspected. He begins spying on her, by day, by night, and as the truth about her secret scandal is revealed, and the identity of her true lover emerges in the summer moonlight, he learns, through shattered innocence, the hardest lessons of his life and love.

Customer Reviews

Praying for the End
I learned a valuable lesson this weekend: a good actor is not enough to save a bad movie. Following the success of Bring It On, there are a couple new releases featuring the formerly pint-sized vixin vampire. I suggest you avoid this one. Lover's Prayer is an adaptation of two Russian stories, "First Love," by Ivan Turgenev, and "The Peasant Woman," by Anton Chekhov. I am utterly confused as to why these two stories were thrown together. The story of the peasant woman is abandoned mid-way through the film, and it did not add anything to the plot or purpose of the film. The main story involves the twisted relationship between Vladimir (Nick Stahl) and Zinaida (Dunst). Zinaida moves into the house next door and proceeds to get all of the much older men in town to fall at her feet. She repeatedly bemoans the boyishness of Vladimir, despite the fact that she appears to be the exact same age. In general, Dunst is just too young for this role. All the older men fawning over her is borderline disgusting because they seem like pedophiles. Throughout the film you have no idea as to what motivates Zinaida. When you finally learn the identity of her lover, you are left with a distinct feeling of, "What? What's going on? How did this happen?" There is no explanation as to why she chose the lover she did, the viewer is just supposed to accept spoon-fed plot developments that have no link to the characters and no broad implications to the story. If there is supposed to be an insight into the plight of Russian women, this film fails miserably. The film would have been powerful if the viewer were given an insight into the inner sufferings of Zinaida. There was potential to show the relationship between Zinaida and her mother, the pressures of social status, and the seduction of a young woman. All of this potential is wasted on a disjointed, pointless, jumble of costumed gobbledy-gook. Avoid at all cost!

just an era
I liked the movie for the music and the costumes, I thought they were all great and nick stahl looked handsome as ever. As to the steaming pot and to answer some of the other reviewers answers about it. I think it had something to do with the cleansing of the well you know..........also it has been know to make the inside of a women.......hotter than normal temperature. I hope this helps any. I read a few historical novels and I had run across something like that.

Just OK
I am a fan of Kirsten Dunst but this certainly isn't one of her better movies. I wouldn't say this movie is terrible, it just isn't all that great. This is one of those movies you watch once and that is about it.