Re: TCM Premieres....
Posted: March 7th, 2024, 11:40 am
Discuss away then.
The best that can be said about the film is that the photography is beautiful, and this closing musical piece is quite interesting.ziggy6708a wrote: ↑March 15th, 2024, 6:24 pm SUN., 3-17
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Far And Away (1992)
2h 20m | Adventure | TV-14
Seeking revenge, young Irishman Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) wounds his landlord and finds himself on the run from a law that favors the rich. Donnelly finds an unlikely ally in his landlord's daughter Shannon (Kidman), who agrees to sneak him out of the country. The two immigrants hop a boat and land in Boston, where they struggle to make ends meet and decide to risk everything in the Oklahoma Territory, where a race promises land to anyone with the courage to stake it out.
Director
Ron Howard
Cast
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson
"On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 50% based on reviews from 36 critics. The site's critics' consensus reads: "Handsome and simplistic, Far and Away has the beauty of an American epic without the breadth."[30]
On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100 based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[31]
Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A" on scale of A to F.[32]
Roger Ebert praised the film's cinematography while criticizing its script:
"Far and Away is a movie that joins astonishing visual splendor with a story so simple-minded it seems intended for adolescents... It's depressing that such a lavish and expensive production, starring an important actor like Tom Cruise, could be devoted to such a shallow story."
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_and_Away