Top Cast
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Barnard Hughes
Da
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Martin Sheen
Charlie
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William Hickey
Drumm
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Doreen Hepburn
Mother
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Karl Hayden
Young Charlie
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Hugh O'Conor
Boy Charlie
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Jill Doyle
Mary (the 'Yellow Peril')
Overview
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Rating
1 Reviews
- SPDonlanJul 20, 2024
'It was a long time before I realuzed that love turned upside down is love for all that.' Adapted by Leonard from his memory play, tapping into his own accomplished memoirs, the film covers a childhood and early career before and after Ireland’s ‘Emergency’. The script’s strong, a nuanced look at an adolescent’s and expat’s shifting feelings about home and the past. Its conceits translate well, too: Charlie faces both his late father and his younger self, disappointed by his past, present, and future. The characters and cast are grand, especially Hughes (who won a Tony for the stage role). The weakest links are the prodigal/producer Sheen and a dodgy timeline. Watch the film. But read the play.
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