Widows' Peak
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Movie Reviews of Widows' Peak
Movie Review: Mystery and Ploting
Summary: 3 Stars
It might seem rather far fetched, but, there are really people out there who tell lies, reveal secrets, seduce men, enrage women just to carry out a scheme. This film explorers all of the machinations of the villainess; but, to what end? Grab the bottom of your chair and hold on tight because the ending is quite some surprise.Movie Review: Chocolate covered straw
Summary: 3 Stars
There are good things to enjoy, but "Widows' Peak" lacks a firm moral framework. I suspect that is why it sloshes around instead of directing effective satire on target.Movie Review: Nawful it is
Summary: 1 Stars
High above a tiny Irish village is "Widows' Peak," an area inhabited by a tight-knit group of well-off widows. The doyen of the group is the venerable Mrs. Doyle-Counihan (Joan Plowright), who keeps the ladies in her circle on a short leash. An odd member of their society is Miss O'Hare (Mia Farrow), the only unmarried lady to be accepted as an intimate. When a flamboyant, young American woman (Natasha Richardson) moves in, she shakes up the town by quickly stealing the heart of Mrs. Doyle-Counihan's son and for no apparent reason, making a enemy of Miss O'Hare.
Billed as a comedy/mystery/thriller, this very odd movie falls short on all counts. While it does paint a charming picture of Irish village life in the 1920s, both the plot and the local dialect are nearly incomprehensible and the ending is too much of a twist. Plowright (widow of Laurence Olivier) is wonderful as the foolish grande dame who thinks she knows everything. Farrow, however, is woefully miscast. Her Irish accent comes and goes and she looks like a spaced-out twenty-something, which hurts the ending. Richardson is simply annoying as the pushy and mysterious American. None of the characters, in fact, are likeable in the least and I didn't care about any of them - with the exception of the local dentist, played to comic perfection by Jim Broadbent.
This is a confusing, tedious, and disappointing movie that should have been so much better, considering the cast.
Movie Review: Widows' Peak
Summary: 1 Stars
Another made for television movie that is boring and lacks depth in it's storyline. I would have expected more with some of the actors who are in this film but it does not deliver.