Academy Awards, USA 1988
| Nominated Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Tony Huston |
| Best Costume Design Dorothy Jeakins |
Vestron Pictures
Directed by John Huston
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Lionsgate)
Irish high society types meet for dinner on a snowy January evening. They play the piano, drink wine and have polite conversation.... for nearly an hour. The most dramatic thing that happens is a wink. After the dinner mercifully ends, a husband and wife return home where she laments about a teenage lover who died at an early age. His final internal dialogue is poetic and moving, but it is more suited to the literary page than the screen, which is true for the movie as a whole.
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