Dancing at Lughnasa - Uncle Jack.mp4

1998 Irish period Drama from director Pat O'Conner, adapted from play by Brian Friel, Screenplay Frank McGuinness, starring Meryl Streep, Gerard McSorley, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan, Darrell Johnston, Kate O'Toole. Streep plays the eldest sister and leader of family of Irish women and a young boy, struggling to make it on their own in a remote 1930's Irish village. Gambon plays the long gone brother who is returning after decades in Africa. The cast and production value are marvelous, though the successful play is less so on the big screen. Critic Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone, " Onstage, in Brian Friel's Tony-winning play, the moment is one of theatrical magic. Director Pat O'Connor's screen version can't match it. The release of tension doesn't feel as powerful in a film that lets us see outside the Mundy sisters' constricted kitchen. Still, a luminous cast reveals long-buried feelings."

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