Product Details

• Actors: Bronagh Gallagher, Frankie McCafferty, David Wilmot, Mick Lally, Gerard McSorley
• Directors: Brian Kirk
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bfs Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012YN29Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,135 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

WINNER - Best Actress - Irish Film and Television Awards / NOMINEE - Best Film - Irish Film and Television Awards / NOMINEE - Best Director - Irish Film and Television Awards / NOMINEE - Best Supporting Actor - Irish Film and Television Awards / NOMINEE - Best Script for Film - Irish Film and Television Awards

"...thought-provoking drama... terrific..." – Variety

"...a bold melodrama... a fine cast..." – The Observer

"...uniformly impressive... compelling..." – Premiere Magazine

"...excellent..." – The Irish Times

"...riveting..." – Sunday Tribune

God, Man and the Evil in Between

Reverend Gabriel Hunter (Matthew Macfadyen – Pride & Prejudice) is shocked when he returns home to Middletown to find the townspeople involved in cockfighting, brawling, gambling and all manner of vice. Determined to save their souls, Gabriel comes down hard on the villagers, scolding them from the pulpit and demanding that they change their sinful ways. Not expecting the resentful rebellion he faces from his own brother Jim (Daniel Mays – Atonement), Gabriel’s religious zeal grows ever more extreme in this dark and explosive thriller.

Special Features: Cast Profiles / Trailer

approx. 89 mins.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark and Brooding, June 29, 2008

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Aunt Holly (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Middletown (DVD)

If you love Mathew MacFayden and you want to see him do something very different, rent this video. It's very dark and rather scary. Not a monsters and ghosts kind of scary, but a human behavior scary. I would give it 5 stars, but I didn't think the characters were given enough time to develop.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A great story but too short of a movie, April 17, 2010

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O. Hassanain "meems" (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Middletown (DVD)

Matthew Macfayden is an amazing actor. I love him in everything he does but this movie. It is a great story that doesn't really "end". The movie begins with a brief introduction then jumps 15 years to show you "what happened". Then it's just chaos..the end. that's that movie. there is absolutely NO time for character developement, no time for you to feel the characters, no nothing. I was left with the feeling of "ok, what else. there's supposed to be MORE" but there isn't. the movie stunk to be honest. skip entirely because you're not missing anything at all.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Okierose, September 14, 2009

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R. Stubbs "Okierose" (Oklahoma, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Middletown (DVD)

The purchasing and delivery of this item was excellent; wasn't too crazy about the movie overall. It was dark and somewhat disturbing, featuring religious people as way over zealous and a bit on the crazy side, as though Godly people can't just be normal people.