The Playboys
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Movie Reviews of The Playboys
Movie Review: The Playboys
Summary: 5 Stars
Set in a rural Irish village near the border with Northern Ireland, a young woman (Robin Wright) has a baby, but refuses to say who the father is. The town constable (Albert Finney) and another local landowner vie for her hand in marriage, but she refuses them both. Meanwhile, a troupe of traveling actors (The Playboys) comes to town to do nightly tent shows, and one of the actors (Aiden Quinn) falls in love with Wright, too. She sees him as an escape to Dublin - and maybe (only maybe) falls in love with him, too - and at the end of the movie is seen leaving town with him.
The script is fairly complex (a subplot involving smuggling supplies to the IRA is also part of the proceedings), with a lot going on with the complicated relationships. Wright is seen as the strongest of the characters - fending for herself, knowing what she wants; the males are depicted as being weak: either blindly and hopelessly in love (Finney's desperation is wonderfully portrayed) or simply a means to an end for Wright. The acting is excellent throughout, and the storyline and direction are subtle and interesting. Worth a watch.
Movie Review: like The Snapper
Summary: 5 Stars
The Playboys is a very good drama about village life and how everyone is up on everyone else's business--the typical smalltown denizens. When you have little, it is very important to make sure that those who don't live according to accepted dogmatic rules are kept in close inspection by those who think they don't have secrets to hide.
Robin Wright plays the put-upon unwed mother with strength and truth. Aidan Quinn, the traveling player who is smitten, and Albert Finney, the local cop who insists on being the fierce protector, put in their expected great work.
I believe the film is Irish and that makes it quite fine. Foreign work is always of a finer caliber, minding better the ways that people think and react to life's difficulties without chewing on the scenery.
Movie Review: Magical story
Summary: 5 Stars
A beautiful story, acted similarly. It has a great ring of truth--growing up in the west of Ireland,I well remember the traveling performers who set up their tent on Monday and gave us Shakespeare one night, a murder-mystery the next, followed by a musical, a comedy--all starring the same nine or ten actors. Then on the weekend, gone overnight. Magical. In the movie, Milo O'Shea is a standout as the head of the troupe, the impressario, and Robin Wright-Penn has the Irish accent down pat, as does the besotted (and unrequited) Albert Finney At the wise insistence of the author of the book on which the film was based, the movie was shot right on the town green of a little town in Cavan. This is a little gem.Movie Review: A little gem from Ireland!
Summary: 5 Stars
The sense of inscrutable and unexplainable foreboding surrounds and permeates this beauty and slow paced film. The Irish villages in the 1950s are the immense frame in which the story will elapse. A freethinking mother, astonishing played by Robin Wright (to my mind her best role to date) will be rescued by Aidan Quinn.
The sensation of bewilderment displayed by Albert Finney is other highlight of the movie.
Movie Review: delightful! Aidan & Robin are the picture of joyfull love.
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this so much that I bought the video to watch over and over. Unfortunately, I lent it out once too often & did not get it back the last time. I am glad to see it is out on DVD & will order right away.