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Summary: If you're hungry for a great down to earth love story.......
Review: set in the craggy, unforgiving mountains of Ireland, buy this movie. You won't be disappointed. The characters are superbly cast and the dialogue, once you've tuned your ear to the lilting Irish brogue, pulls you deep into the very nuances of each and every character. Some you loathe, some you love. But all of them are unforgettable. I wish Hollywood well, but gee, it's great to spend a couple of hours without all the eye-strobing special effects and the stomach-turning violence.
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Summary: Heartbreaking, fulfilling and beautiful!
Review: The film is an investment in time and in the characters here. And what characters - all richly drawn! Elizabeth - strong yet vulnerable and so very unhappy. But determined to make her life work as best she can given the limitations of life for women (not to mention unwed pregnant girls)in 1930's Ireland. Mossie Sheehan, played so heartbreakingly beautifully by Liam Cunningham, will make you want to weep. He falls for Elizabeth immediately, but cannot act on it. Her parents have married her to his estranged cousin Neely (they feud over land) an older widower far from a good and loving husband or father. Her step children - particularly Katie who is doomed to repeat Elizabeth's mistakes - who come to love and respect her as their mother. Elizabeth longs to experience the things all 25 year old women want. Fun, flirting, passion. And she gets it with Daniel McCarthy a boy Katie's age who tragically decides that he is in love with Elizabeth. Mayhem and death ensue. When Mossie finally declares his true feelings to Elizabeth you just want to cry. He's so beautifully sweet! Yes, make the investment. It is a sometimes dark, sometimes unpleasant, but honest look at rural life. But there is a definite pay-off in the end. My only complaint is with the last line in the film. Too corny by half!
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Summary: Heartbreaking, fulfilling and beautiful!
Review: The film is an investment in time and in the characters here. And what characters - all richly drawn! Elizabeth - strong yet vulnerable and so very unhappy. But determined to make her life work as best she can given the limitations of life for women (not to mention unwed pregnant girls)in 1930's Ireland. Mossie Sheehan, played so heartbreakingly beautifully by Liam Cunningham, will make you want to weep. He falls for Elizabeth immediately, but cannot act on it. Her parents have married her to his estranged cousin Neely (they feud over land) an older widower far from a good and loving husband or father. Her step children - particularly Katie who is doomed to repeat Elizabeth's mistakes - who come to love and respect her as their mother. Elizabeth longs to experience the things all 25 year old women want. Fun, flirting, passion. And she gets it with Daniel McCarthy a boy Katie's age who tragically decides that he is in love with Elizabeth. Mayhem and death ensue. When Mossie finally declares his true feelings to Elizabeth you just want to cry. He's so beautifully sweet! Yes, make the investment. It is a sometimes dark, sometimes unpleasant, but honest look at rural life. But there is a definite pay-off in the end. My only complaint is with the last line in the film. Too corny by half!
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Summary: The all-time favorite movie of a lifelong movieholic!
Review: This adaptation of the Deirdre Purcell novel runs approximately 200 minutes and is worth every second. In the beginning of the film, Elizabeth Sullivan has her first romance with an actor in a traveling show and finds herself pregnant and the actor long gone. Her parents, wanting to avoid embarrassment, consult their priest for advise and he comes up with a recently widowed older man with young children who needs a wife. Left with few options, Elizabeth, played beautifully by newcomer Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, marries this stranger and endures a life much harder than the privileged one she left. Her husband, Neeley, treats her like property he's paranoid of losing, but not especially cherished property. Watching from the hill above is Neeley's cousin, Mossie Sheenan (Liam Cunningham). Neeley inherited his farm from Mossie's father, who died when Mossie was very young and probably before he could change his will to leave the place to his son - a situation that has caused bad blood between them. This has Elizabeth misinterpreting just about everything Mossie does as being motivated by a desire to either cause Neeley trouble or to regain his land. There isn't much more we can tell without giving away too much, but this movie has everything you can hope for . . .a great story, beautiful scenery, haunting music, and WONDERFUL ACTING.
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Summary: Falling for This Movie and Colin Farrell
Review: This film was heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time. The heroine Elizabeth is as beautiful an actress as they come. Mossie who has always loved her since the day he saw her on her wedding day to Neely, a much older abusive man she doesn't love but marries rather than give her unborn child by an actor up for adoption. She is faced with his children whom she has grown to love as her own. At a dance her sexually is aroused by the handsome young Danny played by the dashing Dubliner Colin Farrell. Tragedy follows because of this flirtation and when the handsome Danny asked her to run off with him to America she says no. This is the only part of the movie for a moment I stared at in disbelief. If someone as handsome as Colin Farrell asked you to run off with him, honey this Grandma would set the record for packing. I realized the one man who has always loved her Mossie will find his voice and tell her. Liam Cunningham is terrific as Mossie and does a beautiful job with at what seems as unrequited love. for Elizabeth.I purchased this DVD because of Colin Farrell but this delectable chocolate of a movie had a wondeful surprise inside. It is a really a great film. Candace Serviss
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Summary: Not as good as it could be!
Review: This is a nice story with lots of dramatic scenery but it is full of inconsistencies that really ruin the movie. The main character's hair is short, then in scenes that happen a day or two later it is very long, then the next day it is short again. When one person gets buried in the graveyard, it is located downhill by the water. When another person gets buried in the same graveyard, it is up on top of a hill. It is very hard to concentrate on the plot, characters, etc. when this is happening all the time. But two stars for being a good story and having nice scenary.
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Summary: falling for a movie
Review: This movie drew me in right from the beginning. I was reluctant to even watch it because I was not familiar with any of the cast. I could feel Beth's pain.......pregnant by a womanizing actor, pushed away by her parents whose only concern was what other people think and forced to marry an older man she neither knew or loved. Enduring the drudgery of a loveless marriage and stepchildern who loathed her, feeling like an old woman in a young girl's body. Mossie sheehan who loves her from the moment he sees her, helpless to do anything about it. His is in a continuous fued with her husband who is living in the house and on the land that rightly belongs to Mossie. This movie gives hope that even the darkest circumstances can turn around and it really is possible to find your soul mate and one true love. I watch this movie often. It is one of my favorites right along with Pride and Prejudice. It also made me a die hard fan of Liam Cunningham.
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Summary: Falling for a Dancer
Review: This the first time I have ever given a movie 5 stars. This one truly mezmorized me. It is dark and forebodding, yet it has its moments and the ending is somewhat surprising. I had never heard of any of the actors and they all gave compelling performances. The cinematography is excellent, Ireland must be a very beautiful country. This movie really requires you to concentrate, don't watch it if you are doing anything else.
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Summary: Falling For A Dancer
Review: Unlike most of the other reviewer's, my reasons for watching this movie where not based upon the fact that Colin Farrell is one of the actors. I know that he's a very good actor, but I'm really not a fan. Anyway if you're hoping that he's a main characture, sorry, but his part is one of the smaller roles. I first read about this movie, while I was browsing here, at Amazon.com, having read all of the positive reviews (and a few not so positive reviews), I bought it on DVD, and was not disapointed. In my opinion, this is a wonderful minniseries/movie. The actors and actresses all did beautiful jobs portraying their charactures. However, I must say that the performance of Liam Cunningham as Mossie Sheenan seemed to me, the most poignant. The rest of the cast, Elizabeth Dermot-Walsh (Elizabeth), Dermot Crowley (Neely), Colin Ferrall (Danny) and the rest of the cast were all wonderful. I won't bother writting about the plot of the movie, sesne the other reviewers have done such a great job in doing so. Although I will say that the ending, while bittersweet, is beautiful, and exactly what I wished for it to be. I highly recomend this movie.
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