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Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:20
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's... A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's long-lost father, who is off to Spain to fight the war against Franco, and an elderly uncle who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in America. Although life goes on as before for the boy and five sisters, something will happen that will destroy their peaceful existence as they once knew it. [More]
Starring: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke
Starring: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan, Rhys Ifans, Lorcan Cranitch
Director: Pat O'Connor
Director: Pat O'Connor
Producer: Noel Pearson
Screenwriter: Frank McGuinness
Composer: Bill Whelan
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Reviews for Dancing at Lughnasa
[Director] O'Connor exercises both admirable restraint and disciplined editing. The camera's eye brings us painterly beauty in the harsh Irish landscape.
A deftly structured memory piece as beautifully sad as it is charming.
A meditative film that lyrically affirms the small acts of love, courage, and kindness that knit a family together in the face of hardship and change.
so beautifully captures the details of its time and place and its characters' lives that it's difficult to resist being drawn in.
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| 77% 77% | The Hangover |
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| 24% 24% | G-Force |
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| 86% 86% | 500 Days of Summer |
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