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Barry Devlin (screenplay)
Release Date:
February 1995 (USA) more
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an extraordinary tale of an ordinary hero.
Plot:
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay... more | add synopsis
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Surprisingly dull stuff more (7 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Albert Finney | ... | Alfred Byrne | |
| Brenda Fricker | ... | Lily Byrne | |
| Michael Gambon | ... | Ivor J. Carney | |
| Tara Fitzgerald | ... | Adele Rice | |
| Rufus Sewell | ... | Robbie Fay | |
| Patrick Malahide | ... | Inspector Carson | |
| David Kelly | ... | Christy Ward | |
| Mick Lally | ... | Father Ignatius Kenny | |
| Anna Manahan | ... | Mrs. Grace | |
| Joe Pilkington | ... | Ernie Lally | |
| Brendan Conroy | ... | Rasher Flynn | |
| Joan O'Hara | ... | Mrs. Crowe | |
| Eileen Reid | ... | Mrs. Rock | |
| Eileen Conroy | ... | Mrs. Curtin | |
| Maureen Egan | ... | Mrs. Dunne |
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Spain:98 min | UK:99 min | USA:99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Netherlands:MG6 | Australia:M | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:T | UK:15 | USA:R
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Alfie Bryne: The only way to get rid of temptation, is to yield to it. more
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Can't Get Used To Losing You more
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In 1963's Dublin Alfred Byrne is a bus conductor who pleasures his working class passengers with poetry recitals as he punches their tickets. Head of a local theatre group, Byrne is inspired by meeting new passenger Adele Rice to drop his plans to do Importance of Being Earnest and instead go up with Salome. With the challenges to the material from those who would usually support him, Byrne also faces much more negative attention than he would usually like as various truths and secrets come out.
Although the plot does have some interesting aspects to it, it is hard to ignore how average a fist it makes of this story. The threads are there to be delivered and at its heart is Byrne, who is a complex character and one that could have been more interesting. Sadly Krishnamma cannot seem to bring this out of the script with any degree of sharpness. Although I get the idea of the mood and tone that the director was going for, the effect it has is to slow the film right down to the point where it crawls and is surprisingly unengaging. Visually the film has a nice feel of the period but the drab looks again tend to drag the film down a bit.
On paper the cast suggests that they can lift the material themselves but surprisingly nobody does and many of them deserved better. Finney's accent is pretty awful (which didn't help anything) and although he has a certain dignity befitting the character, and brings out some pain, he is never as convincing as he should have been. Fricker, Gambon, Sewell and Fitzgerald are mostly OK but they are given little to do in this film.
A fairly uninspiring affair then. There are things of interest in here but they aren't delivered that well and the film is surprisingly dull.