Product Details

• Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, John Lynch, Frank MacCusker, Mark Tandy
• Directors: Michael Whyte
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: April 14, 1998
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302665329
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,485 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

An Irish widow falls for a man with ties to the IRA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A sad Irish story, April 26, 2002

By	Frank Rodasky (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews

After a lengthy absence from films, Julie Christie returned to make this adaptation of the book by Jennifer Johnston. Julie plays Helen, picking up the pieces of her life after the death of her husband in an IRA involved shooting. She moves to a small coastal town in Ireland to raise her teenage son away from the battlefields of the North Ireland cities. There she meets a disfigured war veteran who bemuses most of the villagers with his intentions of getting the local railway station back in working order after years out of service. Shaken out of her comfortable shell of isolation she begins to have feelings for this man despite herself, while the political strife that claimed her husband creeps back into her life. Another amazing performance by Christie. She's beautiful and sad, nearly heartbreaking every moment of the film. She is reunited with her 'Don't Look Now' co-star Sutherland and they have much of the same chemistry from that previous pairing. Overall, a very good film, but most highly recommended for fans of Sutherland or Christie(which I certainly am).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly beautiful reason to keep your VHS player, April 20, 2007

By	Judith Johnson (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This 1992 movie is a lovely adaptation starring Julie Christie as a widowed artist and Donald Sutherland as a maimed disaffected restorer of train stations. Set on the breathtaking Irish coast, the chemistry between the two leads in this odd love story is palpable and deeply affecting. A charming jitterbug dance scene set at a church jumble (rummage) sale makes both Sutherland and the viewer fall in love with the middle aged Ms. Christie. The IRA is the villian here and the plot line runs kind of thin but it is a haunting movie non-the-less and ranks right up there with Klute in leading man perfomances by Sutherland.