The Dead
The Dead

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  • Released: 1987
  • Runtime: 83 mins
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  • Studio: Zenith Entertainment
  • Genres: Drama

On the lightly snowy evening of January 6, 1904 in Dublin, elderly spinster sisters Kate and Julia and their niece, Mary Jane - all music teachers or performers, past or present - are hosting their annual Epiphany party and dinner, and, with the exception of Mary Jane's new crop of students and the young gentlemen tasked with keeping them company, most of the guests have attended in previous years. Kate and Julia's nephew Gabriel and his wife Gretta hold integral roles for th... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Dead:

Anjelica Huston
Donal McCann
Dan O'Herlihy
Helena Carroll
Cathleen Delany
Ingrid Craigie

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On the lightly snowy evening of January 6, 1904 in Dublin, elderly spinster sisters Kate and Julia and their niece, Mary Jane - all music teachers or performers, past or present - are hosting their annual Epiphany party and dinner, and, with the exception of Mary Jane's new crop of students and the young gentlemen tasked with keeping them company, most of the guests have attended in previous years. Kate and Julia's nephew Gabriel and his wife Gretta hold integral roles for the evening, Gabriel, who, in addition to being Freddy Malins' caregiver if he gets too drunk as is often the case, is to carve the dinner goose and provide the evening's main toast, while Gretta is to present the pudding. With the added unexpected excitement provided by Irish nationalist Molly Ivors for Gabriel, the party basically goes according to script. As most of the guests have departed and just before Gabriel and Gretta are to do the same - this year they staying in a downtown hotel instead of making the long trek to their suburban home and children - something happens to makes Gretta enter into a moment of deep reflection. Gretta confessing the cause and the item of reflection later at the hotel to Gabriel leads to Gabriel, as a culmination of the evening's sum total of events, also entering into reflection, about his and Gretta's marriage, and about life and death in general.

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Washington Post - 10/10 by Hal HinsonThe movie was Huston's last and it's a great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect.
New York Times - 10/10 by Vincent CanbyThat Huston should have dared search for the story's cinema life is astonishing. That he should have found it with such seeming ease is the mark of a master.
The Moving Picture Show - 10/10 by Joe LeydonThe film is a masterpiece, both a worthy translation of James Joyce's story and a wonderful summation of John Huston's career.
Spirituality and Practice - 10/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatThe Dead celebrates the beauty of the English language, the challenges of marital love and the intimations of mortality which can bring us back to an exaltation of life.
Turner Classic Movies Online - 9/10 by Sean Axmaker... a small masterpiece, a film of exquisite grace and understated power.
Capital Times (Madison, WI) - 9/10 by Rob ThomasVery faithful Joyce adaptation that's worth sticking with to its powerful end.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyA personal film for John Huston, starring daughter Anjelica and adapted to the screen by son Tony, this very last work evokes beautifully the mood and texture of James Joyce's lyrical story.
The New York Review of Books - 8/10 by Denis DonoghueHuston's film is not flawless, but even its flaws are generous. The entire film is suffused with a sense of values vulnerable but not yet gone, of eloquence not yet disabled by irony.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Joseph Jon LanthierWhat redeems Huston's last gasp is the observational framing and agile editing with which the Morkan sisters' soiree is captured.
BBC.com - 8/10 by Jamie Russell[A] deeply reverent, deeply affecting adaptation.

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