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A Month in the Country

  • 1987
  • PG
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.8K
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Colin Firth and Natasha Richardson in A Month in the Country (1987)
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Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.

  • Director
    • Pat O'Connor
  • Writers
    • Simon Gray
    • J.L. Carr
  • Stars
    • Colin Firth
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • John Atkinson
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    1.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pat O'Connor
    • Writers
      • Simon Gray
      • J.L. Carr
    • Stars
      • Colin Firth
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • John Atkinson
    • 34User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Natasha Richardson in A Month in the Country (1987)
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    Colin Firth in A Month in the Country (1987)
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    Colin Firth and Natasha Richardson in A Month in the Country (1987)

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    Colin Firth
    Colin Firth
    • Birkin
    Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh
    • James Moon
    John Atkinson
    • Old Man on Train
    Jim Carter
    Jim Carter
    • Ellerbeck
    Patrick Malahide
    Patrick Malahide
    • Reverend Keach
    Richard Vernon
    Richard Vernon
    • Colonel Hebron
    Tim Barker
    • Mossop
    Vicki Arundale
    • Kathy
    Martin O'Neil
    • Edgar
    Natasha Richardson
    Natasha Richardson
    • Alice Keach
    Tony Haygarth
    Tony Haygarth
    • Douthwaite
    Eileen O'Brien
    • Mrs. Ellerbeck
    Elizabeth Anson
    • Lucy Sykes
    Barbara Marten
    • Mrs. Sykes
    Ken Kitson
    Ken Kitson
    • Mr. Sykes
    • (as Kenneth Kitson)
    Judy Gridley
    • Mrs. Clough
    Lisa Taylor
    Lisa Taylor
    • Emily Clough
    Andrew Wilde
    Andrew Wilde
    • Shop Assistant
    • Director
      • Pat O'Connor
    • Writers
      • Simon Gray
      • J.L. Carr
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    • Trivia
      Film historian Nick Redman mentions in his commentary included in the BFI edition of the movie that, at the time of its original release, this was said to be a movie "starring two nobodies".
    • Goofs
      According to Alice Keach, her roses are the variety Sarah Van Fleet. However, the film is set in 1920 and Sarah Van Fleet roses were not introduced until 1926.
    • Quotes

      Reverend Keach: Where do you intend to stay?

      Birkin: Well, I thought, um... here.

      Reverend Keach: Here? Where here?

      Birkin: What about the belfry?

      Reverend Keach: The belfry? I can't say that appeals to me, having somebody stay in the belfry. Shouldn't you take lodgings? A room in teh Shepherd's Arms?

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Breakthrough Stars of 1990 (1990)
    • Soundtracks
      Roses of Picardy
      (uncredited)

      Music by Haydn Wood

    User reviews34

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    Featured review
    9/10
    You have to be English to appreciate this
    I am posting this submission partly in reaction to the last one currently on the site, which gave the movie the thumbs down. Then its author revealed that he had spent American currency hiring the video and I thought: aha, so that's why.

    This film partly celebrates a piece of rural, Northern England and it really does help if you live there, which I do. (I could even take you to the railway station where the early scenes were shot, featuring incidentally the most unconvincing screen rain I have ever seen! it also stars in the first Harry Potter movie) The delicious soundtrack could only have been composed by someone steeped in Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams. Only a man who knows if not at first hand then at least by intimate report the rivalry between "church" and "chapel" - which still persists in these parts - could have written that scene in the organ shop.

    It's not an action movie but rather one that moves with the languid pace of a summer that feels as if it should be Edwardian, but that era is a dream now. There are dark ripples below the sunny surface. Birken's nervous tic, the nightmares of the trenches, the casual debauchery of Moon, are the aftertaste of WW1's horror. What of Christian faith after such slaughter? There is the simple Phillistine chapel culture, its weary preacher still ranting at his congregation about their sins, unaware that the war has made private transgression seem utterly trivial. There is the cold liturgical worship offered by the pious, buttoned up, tight-fisted Rev Keach. Birken finds no meaning in either, and immerses himself in the work of restoring a masterpiece from an age when faith still gripped the psyche, hoping perhaps to draw something of its historic power into himself. Moon - Branagh's character - is shallow by comparison, idle, serene, detached.

    The scenes with Birken and Alice Keach are little gems of implication and understatement, she - it seems knowingly - playing Eve, complete with temptress's apple, to Birken's Adam. The potential for an affair is manifest, but we sense nothing will come of it, and in the last scene of the movie Birken is seen throwing away an apple core.

    Branagh would go on to greater things; this is Colin Firth's film and while his celebrity rating has soared since he made it, I doubt he will ever turn in a performance that surpasses it in subtlety and richness.

    But to end as I began: this is not a movie that I would expect to travel well. You really need to be English appreciate it - heck, I've seen American movies that washed right over me because I don't understand the rules of baseball!
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    • rjbrad
    • Aug 17, 2005

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 1987 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Falling Man
    • Filming locations
      • Radnage, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Channel Four Films
      • Euston Films
      • PfH Ltd.
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $443,524
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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