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The Dead (1987) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
79 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Huston

Written By:
James Joyce
Tony Huston

Actors:
Anjelica Huston ..... Gretta Conroy
Bairbre Dowling ..... Miss Higgins
Cathleen Delany ..... Aunt Julia
Dan O'Herlihy ..... Mr. Browne
Donal Donnelly ..... Freddy Malins
Donal McCann ..... Gabriel Conroy
Frank Patterson ..... Bartell D'Arcy
Helena Carroll ..... Aunt Kate
Ingrid Craigie ..... Mary Jane
Kate O'Toole ..... Miss Furlong (as Katherine O'Toole)
Maria Hayden ..... Miss O'Callaghan
Maria McDermottroe ..... Molly Ivors
Marie Kean ..... Mrs. Malins
Rachael Dowling ..... Lily
Sean McClory ..... Mr. Grace

Synopsis:

The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and Julia Morkan (Cathleen Delany). At the home of these two curious ladies, Gretta is prodded into remembering her long-dead lover. She tearfully reveals to her husband (Donal McCann) that the deceased boy may well have died on her behalf. Her tale of woe bespeaks the sentiment shared by James Joyce: no matter how long in their graves, the dead will always influence the living. Adding to the film's elegiac quality, it stars Huston's daughter Anjelica and was co-written with his son Tony Huston.

John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors, James Joyce; a love letter to the land of his ancestors and the country where his children grew up; and the chance to work with his screenwriter son Tony and his actress daughter Anjelica. The film is delicate and unhurried, detailing a Christmas dinner at the house of two spinster musician sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-century Ireland, attended by friends and family. Among the visiting attendees are the sisters' nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The evening's reminiscences bring up melancholy memories for Gretta concerning her first, long-lost love when she was a girl in rural Galway. Her re

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