Ironweed (Blu-ray) R
Hard times and Good times. Francis and Helen.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Nicholson & Meryl Streep | |
Performer: | Fred Gwynne, Carroll Baker, Tom Waits, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora, Margaret Whitton, Nathan Lane, Ted Levine, Frank Whaley, Joe Grifasi & James Gammon | |
Directed by | Hector Babenco | |
Edited by | Anne Goursaud | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Produced by | Keith Barish & Marcia Nasatir |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
The film becomes becalmed and confusing; it lacks the novel's great unwavering trajectory.
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Los Angeles Times
...[The] film achieves an inner glow, enhanced by Lauro Escorel's cinematography...
Variety
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Despite its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, its superstar cast and its $23 million budget, Mr. Babenco's ''Ironweed'' is skeletal, a mere outline of Mr. Kennedy's far more resonant book.
New York Times
At last, a real part for Nicholson to sink his teeth into.
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Time Out
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Dim, grim, and relentlessly depressing.
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TV Guide
Rating: 87/100 --
...slow and crushing, a heavy film that has a simple plot, a despairing tone and none of the ostentatious "acting" often evinced in Nicholson's later career
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Ironweed makes the sadness seem isolated and dangerous and unreal; it only exists where the bums live, it doesn't reach into the lives of good families.
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United Press International
Product Description:
Hector Babenco's bittersweet film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Kennedy, stars Jack Nicholson as Francis Phelan, a drunken former baseball player running away from life and the painful, guilty memories that haunt him. Set in the winter of 1938, IRONWEED features Francis wandering the streets of Albany, New York, with his pal Rudy (musician Tom Waits) looking for odd jobs, cheap drinks, and flophouses. Meryl Streep costars as Helen Archer, Francis's longtime girlfriend and partner in drink. Together they lament the misery of life and ponder their tragic pasts, hoping to find a way to free themselves from their troubled lives--but never believing it's possible. Told in a series of drunken flashbacks, this dark portrait of depression-era hopelessness is a searing character-driven drama. Nicholson and Streep deliver painfully honest Oscar-nominated portrayals of two down-on-their-luck vagabonds moodily stewing in an alcoholic daze. The film, South American director Babenco's American debut, also features an excellent performance by Waits.
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- Sales Rank: 65,057
- UPC: 887090057202
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