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03/11/08
The Dead (1988)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:22
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In this adaptation of the James Joyce short story, which takes place at an annual New Years Eve party in Dublin in 1904, Gretta Conroy, after hearing an old and sad ballad sung by one of the... [More]
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly
Director: John Huston
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Reviews for The Dead
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10/21/05
There's a certain disarming sweetness to the film. The scenes are lit in amber warmth and Joyce's Dublin fable of lost hopes and living memories is treated with respect. But the acting pool is only adequate.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis sublime adaptation of the last story in James Joyce's Dubliners is John Huston's final film, and it is as beautiful, delicate, and moving an epitaph as any filmmaker could ever desire.
07/30/03
Swansong's rarely come more sublime.
05/24/03
A haunting farewell for father John Huston, a powerhouse acting turn from daughter Anjelica.
12/03/04
No review available.
05/14/04
A beguiling chamber piece.
01/26/06
One of cinema's best literary adaptations.
06/22/08
a finely polished jewel and a wonderful way to remember a great director.
11/03/09
No review available.
06/29/05
The Dead celebrates the beauty of the English language, the challenges of marital love and the intimations of mortality which can bring us back to an exaltation of life.
08/28/04
The movie was Huston's last and it's a great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
02/25/07
[A] deeply reverent, deeply affecting adaptation.
02/05/08
A true labor of love -- a masterpiece, and perhaps the crowning achievement of a long, varied and highly celebrated career.
11/17/05
There's also a rather awesome and unpretentious directness as well as calmness about the way that Huston contemplates his own rapidly approaching death.
02/05/08
Top CriticFine performances from everyone, and a self-effacing, enigmatic star turn from Anjelica Huston herself.
02/05/08
Entirely filmed in a Californian warehouse, The Dead features the greatest Irish cast ever assembled on screen.
02/05/08
Very faithful Joyce adaptation that's worth sticking with to its powerful end.
03/18/04
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