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The Playboys
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A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney).
A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney).
Actors:
Adrian Dunbar,
Tony Rohr,
Aidan Quinn,
Brian OLeary,
Michèle Forbes,
Doreen Hepburn,
Pat Laffan,
Peter Morris,
Lorcan Cranitch,
Niall OBrien,
Niamh Cusack,
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Adrian Dunbar
1 August 1958, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Tony Rohr
Aidan Quinn
8 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Brian OLeary
Michèle Forbes
Doreen Hepburn
Pat Laffan
Peter Morris
Lorcan Cranitch
28 August 1959, Dublin, Ireland
Niall OBrien
8 February 1946, Dublin, Ireland, UK
Niamh Cusack
20 October 1959, Dublin, Ireland
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon
8 January 1948, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Country:
United States
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July 18, 2003
Rfeveals the delights and the drawbacks of small town life.
March 11, 2008
It seems like everyone had a ball; I know I did.
January 01, 2000
All in all, The Playboys is an Irish treat.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Mr. Finney, looking puffy and ravaged in the role of a man who has lost much of himself to drink (and whose obsessive interest in Tara somehow offers him the chance of redemption), brings a furious, buried intensity to Hegarty's longing.
May 26, 2006
This bit of blarney depicts a sweet, silly love triangle in 1950s provincial Ireland.
March 11, 2008
Not amazing but watchable.
March 11, 2008
This familiar pattern of headstrong girl and passions brimming beneath the surface is well directed by first time Scottish helmer Gillies MacKinnon, though the pace slows in middle reels as plot gives way to the troupe's enjoyable stage performances.
June 24, 2006
With time, place and mood sensitively evoked, this is solid, intelligent entertainment, mercifully free of the usual 'Oirish' clichés.
June 21, 2007
The film is set in 1957, before TV and cars became popular, thus explaining the centrality of two institutions in the Irish village: the church and the theater.
Hollywood Reporter
March 11, 2008
This absorbing film boasts several outstanding performances as well as a richness in both story and character that is much too rare these days.
March 11, 2008
The wry Irish wit sits like froth on the head of a glass of Guinness, masking a deceptively bitter brew.
Rolling Stone
March 06, 2005
There's magic in it.