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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: February 12, 1988 |
Starring:
Carroll Baker, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Jack Nicholson, Jake Dengel, Margaret Whitton, Meryl Streep, Michael O'Keefe, Nathan Lane, Tom Waits
Summary:
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Ironweed is the love story of two bums, the swan song of a haunted man, a character study of abiding humanity. It's a sad movie. Beautiful, too. [12 Feb 1988, p.C1]
Even illuminated by the unsparing performances of Jack Nicholson as Francis and Meryl Streep as Helen, his companion of nine years and another soul stumbling away from grace, the film becomes becalmed and confusing; it lacks the novel's great unwavering trajectory. [18 Dec 1987, p.1]
The director, Hector Babenco, treats William Kennedy's Albany novel, set in 1938, as a joyless classic; the movie has no momentum--the running time (144 minutes) is like a death sentence.
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