Dancing at Lughnasa
by Pat O'Connor
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Actor: Catherine McCormack, Gerard McSorley, Kathy Burke, Meryl Streep, Michael GambonDirector: Pat O'Connor
Brand: STREEP,MERYL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-15
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Dancing at Lughnasa
DVD Review: A Moving Piece
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't understand a number of the earlier reviewers who criticize this piece for not being comedic and ending sadly. Have we no place for tragedy, whether in plays or movies, in our lives? Must all creative works be comedic and end happily (contrary to real life)? I suggest we move past the 30's - 40's movies of "Snow White".
Life is often tragic and we need to see that. If you do not wish to see tragedy, don't criticize the film for showing you it. There are plenty of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck shorts and horrible Jennfier Aniston romantic comedies. I appreciate even this watered-down movie version of Brian Friel's play for showing us hard times, difficult feelings, prejudices, and ultimately family love. This is about being an adult, facing the realities of human suffering, and looking those realities squarely in the face.
DVD Review: Good Experience
Summary: 5 Stars
Fast service and item was new as advertised.
Wonderful movie - you feel that you know each of the characters. Very charming film. Meryl Streep is wonderful, as always.
DVD Review: A very sad movie
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is a very different picture of 30's Ireland than inThe Informer - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers with Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster and Directed by JOHN FORD. The Catholic church abandoning an old sick priest after years
of service in a leper colony in Africa and then, firing his sister by association,
just is hard to place in the ideas of any kind of church?
The "going native" of this Irish priest really doesn't seem to be his fault.
The result was in the end tragic for the family
with a young boy to raise. The movie just has a lot of heart and
no real point that I could figure.
I didn't like the movie.
DVD Review: Dancing at Lughnasa
Summary: 5 Stars
I was drawn into wanting this film after viewing the "coming attractions" before viewing a film I had purchased. I was well pleased with the story line and have shared it with my friends. Amazon is a wonderful tool...DVD Review: Dancing at Lughnasa
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVE this movie....firstly because I am Irish and can really relate to the story. Secondly, just to watch Meryl Streep play her role with such a convincing Irish accent,makes me admire her more than ever. Many of my Irish friends can recite lines from the movie off by heart......it is a treasure
Description of Dancing at Lughnasa
Five sisters living in Ireland on the brink of World War II must contend with a variety of disrupting family issues while struggling to make ends meet.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 15-JUN-1999
Media Type: DVD
This affecting, bittersweet tale--adapted from Brian Friel's semi-autobiographical Tony Award-winning play--examines the emotional lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in 1936 rural Ireland. In their mutual care is 8-year-old Michael (sweetly understated Darrell Johnston), the illegitimate son of youngest sister Christina (Braveheart's Catherine McCormack). A voice-over from the adult Michael recalls that significant summer, in the month of August, during the feast of Lughnasa. The bolder townfolk dance around a fire to Lugh, an ancient god of light. Yes, this is fiercely Roman Catholic Ireland and Lugh a pagan god, but that irony is at the core of the film, the hypocrisy of tradition. The dramatic change in the richly metaphoric movie comes with the arrival of two men: eldest sibling--and only Mundy brother--Jack (Michael Gambon), a priest returning from many years in Africa, now addled, and Christine's long-absent lover and Michael's father, the charmingly flighty Gerry (Rhys Ifans). Beautiful music and excellent performances highlight the film, which also features gorgeous cinematography of the Irish countryside. Meryl Streep is stern eldest sister Kate; Kathy Burke is lively Maggie; Brid Brennan (who appeared in the stage play) is thoughtful caretaker Agnes; and Sophie Thompson is simple sweet Rose. It's a quiet film, but one filled with ironic and haunting meaning. Directed by Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends). --N.F. Mendoza
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