The Playboys (1992)
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Cast
as Constable Brendan Hegarty
as Tara Maguire
as Tom Casey
as Freddie
as Malone
as Brigid
as Cassidy
as Rachel
as Denzil
as Vonnie
as Mick
as Ryan/John Joe
as Mrs. Smith
as Mrs. Smith
as Nualla Ryan
as Sean
as Maggie Rudden
as McMahon
as Maggie Rudden
as Kelly
as Police Superintendent
as Duffy
as Timmy
as Richie
as Liam
as Customs Officer
as Tara's Baby
as Tara's Baby
Critic Reviews for The Playboys
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This familiar pattern of headstrong girl and passions brimming beneath the surface is well directed by first time Scottish helmer Gillies MacKinnon, though the pace slows in middle reels as plot gives way to the troupe's enjoyable stage performances.
It seems like everyone had a ball; I know I did.
This absorbing film boasts several outstanding performances as well as a richness in both story and character that is much too rare these days.
With time, place and mood sensitively evoked, this is solid, intelligent entertainment, mercifully free of the usual 'Oirish' clichés.
There's magic in it.
Mr. Finney, looking puffy and ravaged in the role of a man who has lost much of himself to drink (and whose obsessive interest in Tara somehow offers him the chance of redemption), brings a furious, buried intensity to Hegarty's longing.
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