That Huston should have dared search for the story's cinema life is astonishing. That he should have found it with such seeming ease is the mark of a master.
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05/20/03
The Dead (1988)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:21
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
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.
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Top CriticThe movie was Huston's last and it's a great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect.
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Top CriticHuston was an old man when he died, but he had not withered dismally with age because he still had the courage and the imagination to attempt to make an impossible film of the greatest story that he had ever read.
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