Tara Road (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Gillies MacKinnon

Escritores:

Maeve Binchy (novel)
Cynthia Cidre (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 octubre 2005 (Ireland)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

Sometimes you must lose your life to find a new one...

Plot:

Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.

Plot Keywords:

Connecticut | Dublin | Restaurant | Transatlantic Flight | Loan

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Soap Opera Content, but with some Fine Actors

Reparto

Olivia Williams	...	Ria
Andie MacDowell	...	Marilyn
Johnny Brennan	...	Brian
Iain Glen	...	Danny
Jennifer Buckley	...	Secretary
Stephen Rea	...	Colm
Virginia Cole	...	Mrs. Doyle
Maria Doyle Kennedy	...	Rosemary
Sarah Bolger	...	Annie
Eileen Colgan	...	Nora
Jean-Marc Barr	...	Andy
Alan Devlin	...	Barney
Enrique Fonseca	...	Limo Driver
Jia Francis	...	Heidi (as Jia Frances)
Brenda Fricker	...	Mona

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic elements, language and some sensuality.

Duración:

97 min

País:

Ireland

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Clasificación:

Germany:o.Al. | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | Finland:K-3 | Australia:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Netherlands:6 | USA:PG | Ireland:12A

Locaciones de Filmación:

Cape Town, South Africa

Compañía:

Noel Pearson Productions

Trivialidades:

Maeve Binchy, author of the novel on which the movie is based, makes an uncredited cameo as a restaurant patron. She can be glimpsed seated at the end of the bar, right after the scene where Ria offers to take the job advertised at the restaurant cashier's counter.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Making of 'Tara Road' (2005) (TV)

Soap Opera Content, but with some Fine Actors

TARA ROAD is a thickly populated movie that reaches for the female audience and succeeds in addressing old problems of infidelity and marriage conflicts. The problem is the story by highly published Irish author Maeve Binchy (adapted from Binchy's novel for the screen by Cynthia Cidre) is 'used goods' and while there are many moments of touching dialog there are equal moments of sham resolutions that in the end prove disappointing despite the cast of actors portraying these only occasionally interesting characters.

Two women, each bruised by life events, trade homes (Dublin, Ireland and Connecticut) to find the space to recover. In Connecticut, Marilyn (Andie MacDowell) is recovering from the accidental motorcycle (a birthday gift from his father Greg - August Zirner) death of her young son: grief has made her withdraw and lose her feelings for Greg. In Dublin, Ireland Ria (Olivia Williams) is blissfully happy in her beautiful home on Tara Road which she shares with her two children and her newly discovered unfaithful husband Danny (Iain Glen) - a lothario who has had affairs with Ria's best friend Rosemary (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and now confesses to the pregnancy of his current mistress Bernadette (Heike Makatsch). In too quick an instance Ria and Marilyn decide to swap homes with the hope that separation form their families will give them room to readjust to life. Each woman encounters the friends and neighbors of the other: Marilyn meets restaurateur Colm (Stephen Rea) among Ria's odd assortment of acquaintances while Ria encounters the brother of Greg and some intrusive and over the top friends of Marilyn. Gradually it all comes to a very predictable conclusion that simply solves too many problems too easily.

Director Gillies MacKinnon seems to have difficulty deciding how to maintain a tone for the film - a tearjerker versus a situation comedy. There are moments when the audience connects with some of the characters, but these are too few and separated by far too many stretches of weak writing. Despite some fine acting the movie never quite flies. Grady Harp