Advantages: Richard Harris, John Hurt Disadvantages: Awful dialogue, pompous, overblown, predictable.....
...many references were made in the media to his Oscar-wining performance in "Ryan's Daughter". Initially I could not remember him being in it until I realized I had been thinking of another film set in Ireland and with one or two other similarities.
The film was "The Field" (1991), for which the late Richard Harris received an Oscar nomination, though failing to make the conversion (if I may use rugby parlance). Set in 1930s rural Ireland, Harris ... ...only his family, but also the small village in which he lives for decades. As the film opens his wife has not spoken to him for eighteen years, since the suicide of their second son. McCabe now lives with his other son Tadgh (Sean Bean) who helps him farm a field close to their home; the field belongs to an English widow (played by Frances Tomelty) who lives in the village. Even she does not escape McCabe's cruel and vicious temper. He has made her ...
fizzytom 25.05.2005
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