Product Details

• Actors: Niall Toibin, Sinéad Cusack, Luke Griffin, Phelim Drew, Donal McCann
• Directors: Eugene Brady
• Writers: Eugene Brady, Doug Mayfield, Jacqueline O'Neill, Sean P. Steele
• Producers: Beau St. Clair, Bernard Somers, Cynthia A. Palormo
• Format: PAL
• Language: English (Stereo)
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JY6S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,969 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Nephew" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Irish Drama, March 6, 2005

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I caught this movie one day on cable, intrigued by the idea of an African-American man returning to his Irish mother's homeland. It would be easy for this film to use the idea of a young black man coming to Ireland and the sort of upheval that might bring, but instead the film focuses on the tortured family history of the characters. In fact, the color of the newphew's skin is barely mentioned (twice I think). Hill Harper as the nephew, Chad, and Donal McCann as his uncle Tony shine in this film. Their performances are dramatic, tortured, and heart-wrenching at times. The rest of the all Irish cast, including Pierce Brosnan, are wonderful, as well. If you're looking for a great drama featuring wonderful acting and the beautiful landscape of Ireland, then check out this film.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All about family, friends, lovers and secrets., September 14, 2005

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Joan Huddy Rosenzweig "A lover of good stories" (Columbia, MD) - See all my reviews
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"The Nephew" is a concise story about the arrival of "the nephew" on a small island off the Irish coast after his mother has died in New York City. [His father died when he was a child, and is not an issue in the story.] There are some racial issues addressed, but they are not the focus of the story, as racial differences in Ireland and the U.K. do not elicit the same reactions as in America. The focus of the story is really what happened more than twenty years earlier, when Karen, "the nephew's" mother, left the island for America, despite her passionate love affair with the character played by Pierce Brosnan, who has not heard from her in all that time.

The "uncle," Uncle Tony, is Karen's brother, a lonely, silent and bitter man, who cannot deal with the memories brought to the surface--although it is plain that those memories were never very far beneath it--by the presence of Chad Egan-Washington, his nephew. The movie is filled with wonderful "characters": Tony's farm worker, who is also a singer; the "twins," two of the most precious children ever to inhabit a movie screen; and others too numerous to mention. I have also refrained from mentioning some of the players, as to do so would reveal some of the secrets before they ripen. Although Pierce Brosnan is given "star billing," he actually plays a "character role" here, and to his credit, he does not make the movie his own; as indeed, it really belongs to Chad and Uncle Tony--both of whom give superb performances--as well as to the absent Karen.

This is a short movie, but a jewel, nonetheless; and one which can be watched many times in order to capture all of its beauty. That beauty includes a magnificent Irish score, and a background of countryside and ocean of such loveliness that you will never tire of seeing it. The best part is that neither the countryside nor the story overwhelms the other. If I could give this movie six stars, I would do so!

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well done drama, November 26, 2004

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M. Fields (Brooklyn, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This is not a subject I've seen dealt with before. Pierce Brosnan stars in this story about an Irish man's sister who runs off to America and marries a black man. The woman has a son and when she dies, he has no where to go but to Ireland to live with his uncle. He carries his mother's ashes with him. The people in the Irish town find him and oddity but some folks take to him immediately. It appears that black people are not well liked in Ireland even if they are half Irish.

The nephew developes a relationship with a young girl but her father is dead set against it. There is hostility between the girl's father and the young man's uncle. Much later it's revealed that the young girls father (Brosnan) use to be in love with the boy's mother and he was the reason that she ran away. Unbeknownst to Brosnan's character, the boy's uncle had a hand in making sure that the lovers were kept apart.

There are some very touching tender moments here and I reccomend this film highly. I hope you try it. It's very different from anything you've ever seen and quite interesting. Enjoy!