Product Details

• Actors: Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit, Anthony Brophy, David Kelly
• Directors: Peter Yates
• Writers: Shane Connaughton
• Producers: Peter Yates, Morgan O'Sullivan, Nigel Wooll, Ruth Boswell, Shane Connaughton
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: June 2, 1998
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0780622391
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,377 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Real "Culchie" Film, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Run of the Country [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Two thirds of Ireland's popoulation doesn't live in the towns most Americans have heard of like Galway, Cork, Dublin. This film hit life in small market towns (down the country) square on the head. The scene where the lads are off in the delivery van to the disco the next town over is dead on, all piled into the back and bouncing around on wee roads for miles. The macho posing and abuses hurled back and forth eventually leading to a row sadly couldn't have reminded me more of my numerous nights out with friends in the Midlands. This is the Ireland they don't want you to see in the travel brochures..complete with post dole day, chip shop trash. And the amount of times I've overheard people there speak the words, "Say nothing 'til ya hear more..." says quite a few have viewed the film as well. My suggestion is to try and find a copy of "Father Ted" (Channel 4) or "Podge & Rodge" (RTE) instead. The countryside is beautiful though.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny yet serious Irish movie, September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Run of the Country [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Worth it just for the character Cocoa. He was hilarious and the actor who played him did an excellent job!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is about the hardships of trying to make it on your own., October 26, 1999

By 

Ryan (American Falls, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Run of the Country [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I thought that this was an excellent movie. Set in Ireland, it is about a young man, who after his mom dies, tries to make it on his own. He does not like to listen to his father, because he thinks that he killed his mother. He goes and he lives with a very outgoing friend named Cocoa. When they go to town across the border, he sees a girl that he instantly falls in love with. They meet and do fall in love and eventually she gets pregnant. The two families have two totally different approaches on what to do. The girls family ships her off, and punish the boy for what he has done to their daughter. All in all I thought that this was an excellent movie.