Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa

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- 63/100 based on 3,919 votes
  • Released: 1998
  • Runtime: 96 mins
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  • Studio: Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
  • Genres: Drama

A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930s Ireland. Five women different in temperament and capability from one another form a firm emotional support system for one another (reluctantly at times), with the eldest assuming the role of "somewhat meddling" overseer. Into this comes their elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions who has "come home to die" after a lifetime ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Dancing at Lughnasa:

Meryl Streep
Catherine McCormack
Brid Brennan
Kathy Burke
Sophie Thompson
Michael Gambon

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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 1930s Ireland. Five women different in temperament and capability from one another form a firm emotional support system for one another (reluctantly at times), with the eldest assuming the role of "somewhat meddling" overseer. Into this comes their elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa. Then the boy's father rides up on a motorcycle--to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, the sisters continue to cope as a close-knit unit until something happens that disrupts the fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.

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Film Journal International - 8/10 by Ed KelleherA deftly structured memory piece as beautifully sad as it is charming.
TheMovieReport.com - 6/10 by Michael DequinaSoapy melodrama masquerading as high art.
Kalamazoo Gazette - 4/10 by James Sanfordso beautifully captures the details of its time and place and its characters' lives that it's difficult to resist being drawn in.
User Review - 10/10 by Robin *I found this movie so funny and so touching at the same time!Definitively one of my favorites.
User Review - 10/10 by adrian morgan lI rememeber seeing this when I was a kid, I really liked it then and I like it now, it's one of those you have to see again.
User Review - 10/10 by Byron BThe narrator remembers an idyllic summer with his mother, three aunts, his uncle, and his father.
User Review - 10/10 by Private Ukind of depressing, but I really liked it. it's set in Ireland in the 1930s and it reminds you of how difficult life surely must have been not all that long ago and how families really could pull through pretty much anything as long as they loved each other and worked together. (i know, kind of sappy -- but it was a good movie!)
User Review - 10/10 by Katie Ka beautiful film. its like a poem. it makes you laugh it makes you cry and it makes you want to dance. exceptional acting, directing. meryl streep and michael gambon are absolutely brillant but the other characters keep up really well! i was very impressed!
User Review - 8/10 by Paul KExcellent. We had seen the play at the theatre, and watched the movie the following night. Both were good, with the play demanding more work to understand than the film. More words of explanation in the play, and it was lovely to see how these were translated into facial expression by the actors in the movie. A good ensemble cast, all five sisters well characterised. There were differences of emphasis between the two scripts, with a a couple of plot lines which differed completely. The power of the church is underplayed in the movie, together with the parallel between Lughnasa celebrations in Ireland and 'pagan' activity in Uganda. A beautiful film, well worth a look.
User Review - 8/10 by Kathie HSophie Thompson completely stole the show. This was a beautiful movie that conveyed the hopelessness & one-day-at-a-time struggle to survive in poor, chauvinistic 1930s Ireland. It shows once again that women are the ones who do what it takes to care for everyone, & that the men just follow their own dreams.

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