Dancing At Lughnasa (AUS)

Dancing At Lughnasa (AUS) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Pat O'Connor

Written By:
Brian Friel
Frank McGuinness

Actors:
Meryl Streep ..... Kate Mundy
Michael Gambon ..... Father Jack Mundy
Catherine McCormack ..... Christina Mundy
Kathy Burke ..... Maggie Mundy
Sophie Thompson ..... Rose Mundy
Brid Brennan ..... Agnes Mundy
Rhys Ifans ..... Gerry Evans
Darrell Johnston ..... Michael Mundy
Lorcan Cranitch ..... Danny Bradley
Peter Gowen ..... Austin Morgan
Dawn Bradfield ..... Sophie McLoughlin
Marie Mullen ..... Vera McLoughlin
John Kavanagh ..... Father Carlin
Kate O'Toole ..... Chemist
Gerard McSorley ..... Narrator (voice)

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. Each of the five women, different from the other in temperament and capability, is the emotional support system, although at times reluctantly, for each other, with the eldest assuming the role of a 'somewhat meddling' overseer. But then into this comes an elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions, who has 'come home to die' after a lifetime in Africa; as well, there also arrives the boy's father, riding up on a motorcycle, only to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Nevertheless, life goes on for the five sisters, although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, they continue to cope as a close-knit unit... until something happens that disrupts the very fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.

The film is a tale of the summer in the life of the Mundy sisters: Kate (Meryl Streep), a bitter and repressed school teacher who believes that 'a woman's modesty is everything'; Maggie (Kathy Burke), an uncomely freespirit; Rose (Sophie Thomspon), a romantic simpleton; Agnes (Brid Brennan), Rose's quiet keeper; and Christina (Catherine McCormack), an unwed mother. Then there's Michael (Darrell Johnston), Christina's illegitimate son, from whose point-of-view the story is presented in flashback (complete with voiceover narrative). It's 1936 in the small village of Ballybeg, Ireland, and the five spinsters are welcoming home their older brother, Father Jack (Michael Gambon), who is returning from missionary duties in Uganda. Debilitated by his experiences and no longer bound by the conventions of his Christian faith, Jack is only a shell of the man he once was. And, just around the time Jack is settling in, Michael's father, the roguish Gerry (Rhys Ifans), makes one of his infrequent visits, brightening Christina's days, but causing Kate to glower in suspicion.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 December, 2010.

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