Ryan's Daughter (1970)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 8 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 16 mins
Synopsis:
David Lean's epic tale of forbidden love, set during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 tells the story of Charles Shaughnessy (Robert Mitchum), a kind and gentle widower, who falls in love with and marries the much younger Rosy (Sarah Miles). On her wedding night, however, Rosy finds that her new... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: Robert Bolt
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: Robert Bolt
Composer: Maurice Jarre
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Arguably David Lean's weakest film, this lushly photographed (it won Oscar for Freddie Young) period Irish romance is rambling and pointless, and feels like an occasion for Sarah Miles (then married to writer Bolt) to show off her beautiful body.
03/22/08 12:24 PM
The best thing about this much-vaunted, overlong Irish epic love triangle is its gorgeous photography.
11/06/07 02:46 PM
Overlength of perhaps 30 minutes serves to magnify some weaknesses of Robert Bolt's original screenplay, to dissipate the impact of the performances, and to overwhelm outstanding photography and production.
11/06/07 02:44 PM
Top Critic
Those who were jealous of [Lean's] previous successes decried the film as an utter failure, though of course it is not, it just isn't quite as good as his other movies.
03/08/06 03:17 AM
Top Critic Some hippie-dippiness dates the picture, but the vérité posturing of Lean's peers looks a lot kitschier in retrospect
02/22/06 07:22 PM
If you are looking for a breath of fresh Eire, you are in the wrong movie.
02/15/06 06:50 AM
Vet British actor John Mills won the Supporting Oscar for playing the village's idiot
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07/04/05 08:40 PM
Top Critic A disappointing failure of tone, a lush and overblown self-indulgence in which David Lean has given us a great deal less than meets the eye.
10/23/04 10:18 PM
Top Critic Lean's depiction of provincial Ireland during the unrest of 1916 may suffer a little from its rather worthy romanticism, but this does not dilute its powerful, epic vision.
05/24/03 08:02 AM
It's insanely overproduced in Lean's standard epic style, yet somehow the crazy mismatches in scale contribute to the film's sense of romantic delirium.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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