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1998 Certificate PG
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A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's long-lost father, who is off to Spain to fight the war against Franco, and an elderly uncle who has "come home to die" after a .. Read more

Starring Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke
Director Pat O'Connor
Genres Drama

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Dancing At Lughnasa

A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's long-lost father, who is off to Spain to fight the war against Franco, and an elderly uncle who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in America. Although life goes on as before for the boy and five sisters, something will happen that will destroy their peaceful existence as they once knew it.

Starring Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Brid Brennan, Sophie Thompson, Rhys Ifans, Lorcan Cranitch
Director Pat O'Connor
Studio CHANNEL 4
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Subtitles DVD: None
Released DVD: 25 Aug 2008
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Director Pat O'Connor, who made the enjoyably romantic Irish drama Circle of Friends, stumbles a little with this rather meandering adaptation of Brian Friel's acclaimed play about five unmarried sisters living in rural Ireland in the 1930s. In depicting the changes that come into the sisters' lives, the film remains faithful to the play. However, O'Connor spends too much time dwelling on the beautiful Irish countryside for the pace ever to move above a slow crawl. That said, the cast members, led by Meryl Streep, all perform superbly, and fans of the Emerald Isle will be enchanted by the picture-book presentation of the country.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Donegal, 1936. The Mundy sisters - five of them, none married - welcome home their brother Jack, a missionary (Gambon).... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    A bit too gentle for its own good

    This splendidly acted piece of period Irish whimsy is certainly watchable (and beautifully filmed) but rather uninvolving. Not a lot happens which is a shame given the fine cast who seem to have mastered the accents without becoming too Oirish and even Michael Gambon plays against type as a meek, doddering, rather ill former missionary.

      • CLTW from Kent
      • Posted 23 Jun 2004 21:43

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    dancing at lughnasa

    a wonderfully uplifting and sad and happy film the direction the actors the music everything is superb i would recommend this film to anyone regardless of the preferences one to what over and over again

      • yourgrimya from Leamington Spa
      • Posted 21 May 2009 13:22

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