Random Passage
by John N. Smith
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Actor: Andy Jones, Colm Meaney, Darragh Kelly, Jessica Par?, Mary WalshDirector: John N. Smith
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Random Passage
Movie Review: Unwatchable: "Little House on the Prairie" meets Newfoundland
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought this would be great, since Colm Meaney is in it (but the man has to make a living), and these rave reviews, which are so misleading that I'm compelled to provide a differing view. Whatever you do, get the intense and accurate Irish series "The Hanging Gale" instead, for its superb acting and historic realism (instead of this terrible costume drama), and/or "Ballykissangel" if "The Hanging Gale" is too intense & you want a more relaxing Ireland. The filming of landscape in "Random Passage" is its only ok feature. That's it. The acting is so totally abysmal and amateurish, I couldn't believe it, or that reviewers loved this cloying and cheesy piece of garbage.
"Random Passage" has the smarmy production values of "Little House on the Prairie," or Spielbergian Smaltz. It begins with a beautifully filmed coastline and then quickly descends into utter stupidity soon thereafter, with some of the worst acting I've ever seen: a woman dies, yet her tongue continues to loll distractingly about her wide-open mouth, while her simpering child pretends to cry. I'm not kidding. The director should never be allowed to make anything else. It's even worse than a Lifetime movie. There are only a few minutes spent in Ireland (the tongue-rolling moment) and then it gets worse. An idiotic bodice ripper, totally unwatchable, and I couldn't subject myself to one more close-up of bad acting, with a dyed red-haired "actress" flouncing around (she's supposed to be Irish, lets sop her hair in orange) making bulbous goo-goo eyes in a plot that is totally unrealistic, totally unhistoric. This is like a really bad high-school play, the worst thing I've seen in a long time. Poor Colm Meaney (excellent in "Layer Cake" and everything else, he at least is a great actor). Anyway, don't waste your time or money, get the superb Irish saga "The Hanging Gale" and/or "Ballykissangel" instead.
Summary of Random Passage
"...it seethes with raw personal drama." - The Globe and MailWINNER - Best Photography - Gemini Awards / WINNER - Best Actress - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Best Actor - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Best Supporting Actress - Gemini Awards / NOMINEE - Outstanding Achievement - Directors Guild of Canada Team Award
Directed by Gemini Award Winning and Oscar Nominated Director John N. Smith
An epic tale of love and survival
This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney - Layer Cake, Kings). In a time and place where life and death are a hair's breadth apart, Mary joins the community's struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape's people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope - and even love.
approx. 6 hrs.
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