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Dancing at Lughnasa

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Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)

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Reviews Counted:30

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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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Soapy melodrama masquerading as high art.

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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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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.

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