A mans blunders regarding his family are told and retold through different eras in history.A mans blunders regarding his family are told and retold through different eras in history.A mans blunders regarding his family are told and retold through different eras in history.
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- (as Andy Flanagan)
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- TriviaDue to adverse reaction at preview screenings, Warner Bros instructed the director, Bill Forsyth, to trim the film by 40 minutes as well as adding narration and a happy ending. Forsyth subsequently disowned the film as a result.
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[first lines]
The Storyteller: This is the story of a story. Once upon a time there was this story, and the story said to itself, how should I begin?
Hector: Try the usual way.
The Storyteller: What, in the dark with a man and a woman, in a story that is still to tell itself?
Hector: Well, you've got to start somewhere. Say, long long ago... Or, far far away... Or, another time in a different distant country... Or just, once...
The Storyteller: That's good. "Far away", so you know the place is close to your own heart. "Once" is nice, so we know that it always happens. Hmm, Once there was this hero...
Hector: [wryly] Some hero.
The Storyteller: Some man then. Any man. Say, a man, a woman, and some children. Don't forget the children.
I appreciated the attempt to portray the ordinariness of life throughout the ages and I view the slowness of the film in this light. Life is often slow. These were interesting vignette-like character studies of one man who is never able to be completely in control of situations around him, but who perseveres.
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,519,366
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $764,011
- May 8, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $1,519,366
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1