Ironweed (1987)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Hector Babenco

Writers:

William Kennedy (novel)
William Kennedy (screenplay)

Release Date:

febrero 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.

Plot Keywords:

Talk To The Dead | Urban | Able To See The Dead | Melancholy | Unconditional Love

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Grim And Wonderful

Cast

Jack Nicholson	...	Francis Phelan
Meryl Streep	...	Helen Archer
Carroll Baker	...	Annie Phelan
Michael O'Keefe	...	Billy Phelan
Diane Venora	...	Margaret 'Peg' Phelan
Fred Gwynne	...	Oscar Reo
Margaret Whitton	...	Katrina Dougherty
Tom Waits	...	Rudy
Jake Dengel	...	Pee Wee
Nathan Lane	...	Harold Allen
James Gammon	...	Reverend Chester
Will Zahrn	...	Rowdy Dick
Laura Esterman	...	Nora Lawlor
Joe Grifasi	...	Jack
Hy Anzell	...	Rosskam

También conocida como:

Tallo de hierro (Spain) [es]

Duración:

143 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Canada:14A | Chile:14 | Finland:K-14 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Albany, New York, USA

Company:

Home Box Office (HBO)

Trivialidades:

For the streetcar scenes, one block of new track was laid, and the streetcar itself was borrowed from the Branford Trolley Museum.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: As noted, this film takes place in 1938; but a billboard is seen advertising the Marx Brothers film "At the Circus" which is a 1939 release.

Quotes:

Helen: What if I did drink too much wine? Whose business is that anyway? Who knows how much I didn't drink, huh?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: Homer the Moe (#13.3)" (2001)

Grim And Wonderful

Cold, desolate in the surface and an uncomfortable warmth in the inside. Meryl Streep leads in a way that is difficult to explain. She provides a truly magic movie moment when she sings "He's My Pal" for her supper. For a moment we live her fantasy. Her moment is our moment, that's why as the song and the fantasy ends something inside me cracked. I felt tears running down my face and, I swear, I wasn't ready for that. The humanity of Meryl Streep, the actress, filters through the devastating circumstances of her character. Circumstances that, by the time we meet her, are already a way of life. At the beginning of the film, when somebody asks her how is she, her reply is "Delightful". Trying to adjust to this character I listen to her stained, tired voice, trying to be heard and I did, heard her. I love Meryl Streep.