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Writers:
Aidan Higgins (novel)
Harold Pinter (screenplay)
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Original Air Date:
20 September 1978 (Season 2, Episode 1)
Plot:
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland... more | add synopsis
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Good acting is not enough. more (4 total)
Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Judi Dench | ... | Imogen Langrishe |
 | Jeremy Irons | ... | Otto Beck |
 | Annette Crosbie | ... | Helen Langrishe |
| Susan Williamson | ... | Lily Langrishe |
| Margaret Whiting | ... | Maureen Layde |
| Harold Pinter | ... | Barry Shannon |
| John Molloy | ... | 1st man on bus |
| Niall O'Brien | ... | 2nd man on bus |
| Arthur O'Sullivan | ... | Joseph Feeney |
| Michael O'Brian | ... | Priest (as Michael O'Briain) |
| Liam O'Callaghan | ... | Mr. Langrishe |
| Joan O'Hara | ... | Mrs. Langrishe |
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105 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Imogen Langrishe:
What star is that?
Otto Beck:
Venus.
Imogen Langrishe:
I thought it was Hesper.
Otto Beck:
Hesper? No, no, unmistakably Venus. The brightest of the planets - -a planet in fact, not a star.
Imogen Langrishe:
I thought they were the same.
Otto Beck:
The same - -the same as what?
Imogen Langrishe:
The same as each other, planets and stars.
Otto Beck:
Decidedly not. Planets are closer than stars, for one thing, and nine of them revolve around the sun against a background of constant stars that do not move. How does one know it's Venus, you ask? Well, because it's the brightest of planets and because it's in the position it should be, if it is Venus, moving in the direction Venus ought to move in. How then can it be anything else but Venus?
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Yes, the acting was fine with every cast member turning in an honest and convincing performance. And there was plenty of atmosphere--the genteel poverty of the sisters, the rustic cottage of the scholar, the Dublin scene. But even Judy Dench and Jeremy Irons couldn't make it matter. The screenplay was so understated as to be incomprehensible. I never did figure out the business with the letters or the problem with the older sister.
Dame Judy was quite a sexy number back in the day,and the young Jeremy was--as ever--terrifically appealing and gifted (although his nose looked a lot different than it did a few years later in Brideshead Revisited!). But as hard as they work to draw us in, we keep thinking, "Why?" Why are these characters doing what they're doing, and, most of all, why are we spending two hours of our lives watching a drama that is giving us back absolutely nothing?"