Agnes BrowneAgnes Browne
starring: Arno Chevrier, Sean Fox, Jennifer Gibney, Tom Jones, Gavin Kelty Price: $19.99 Prices subject to change.See similar products Read customer reviews Related Items: Used Price: $0.50 Third Party New Price: $19.99 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0696306010333 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: Polygram USA Video Languages: Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Polygram USA Video Release Date: February 06, 2001 Running Time: 92 minutes Studio: Polygram USA Video Theatrical Release Date: March 03, 2000
COMPARE PRICES & STORES Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Anjelica Huston meant only to direct this working-class fairy tale, but took on the titular role when the original lead dropped out. Adapted from stand-up comic Brendan O'Carrol's first novel, The Mammy, the story of Agnes Browne takes place in 1960s Dublin, where the newly widowed Browne bravely deals with too little money and too many (seven) kids. She's supported through her troubles by her best friend (Marion O'Dwyer); a goofy-faced, adoring French baker (Arno Chevrier); the aforementioned brood--and her dream of one day meeting Tom Jones (materializing conveniently to belt out "She's a Lady"). Ray Winstone (superb in Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth) plays local loan shark as nasty ogre, the one rotten spot in a neighborhood so whimsically benign it makes Capra's Bedford Falls look downright unfriendly. Having grown up in Galway, Huston should be no stranger to Gaelic life. And her first film, Bastard Out of Carolina, showed a willingness to plumb the darkest recesses of the human heart. But Agnes Browne, all unearned sweetness and light, is feel-good soap opera tricked up as an Irishwoman's "feminist" bid for independence. Too often, Huston generates smiles out of quaint-Irish caricature: giggling over "organisms"--orgasms!--Agnes and her benighted pal later wonder whether breast cancer comes from having had two in a lifetime. After a surfeit of "Jaysuses" and pub sing-alongs, you yearn for the sharp comedy of Roddy Doyle's reality-based Dublin stories, such as The Snapper or The Commitments. If you fell for the ethnic hilarity of Waking Ned Devine, you'll love Agnes Browne's Hollywood hokum about an Ireland that never was. --Kathleen Murphy Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Whe you're this far down, the only direction is upAngelica Huston directs and stars in this lightweight adaptation of Brendan O'Carroll's novel "The Mammy". Suddenly widowed Agnes Browne, a mother of seven, is left to raise her brood on pauper's wages. Not surprisingly, they're a handful to manage. ... Read More Rating:  - Great MovieAngelica Houston and cast are so lovable, funny and real. If you've read the Brown trilogy, you'll love this film. I laughed, I cried, i laughed some more...there's never a dull moment. Rating: - Lo mejor de Agnes Browne...Comence a conocer a Agnes Browne despues de ver varias veces la pelicula, me produce diversas sensaciones...me parece increible que tan solo una pelicula pueda hacerme reir y llorar con solo un segundo de diferencia. Creo que es el mejor papel interpretado ... Read More Rating: - Slight, but engaging.Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston, 1999) Brendan O'Carroll's much-loved novel is made into a film by (and starring) Anjelica Huston. Does it work? Conditionally, yes. If you look at it as a character sketch, a slice of life without much of a plot, it ... Read More Rating:  - A Kick in Ye Pants Some movies never get the attention they should. My parents rented one of these this weekend. It was called Agnes Browne and was actually based on a novel I reviewed for Ohio University's The Post, The Mammy. The book had me in stitches. The movie was not quite ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Related Items: Agnes BrowneBuy Agnes Browne Sale Reviews Deals
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