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1995 American film
The Run of the Country
is a 1995 American
romantic
drama film
directed by
Peter Yates
. It is based on the novel by
Shane Connaughton
, and stars
Albert Finney
and
Matt Keeslar
.
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Plot
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The story tells of a political and generational conflict in a teen romance and coming-of-age story in Ireland. Albert Finney stars as a policeman with the
Garda Siochana
in a small
County Cavan
village just south of the border between
Northern Ireland
and
the Republic
. The sergeant, with nothing to do, hopes for just one murder to solve and make himself famous. His real concern, however, is that his relationship with his 18-year-old son Danny (Matt Keeslar) has been strained since the recent death of his wife from a heart attack during a domestic quarrel. Danny blames his father for his mother's death and resents his father's bullying ways, so he moves in with his best friend Prunty (Anthony Brophy). Danny then falls in love with Annagh (Victoria Smurfit), a beautiful, red-haired northerner, and their relationship, which becomes sexual, brings Danny's conflict with his headstrong father to a boil.
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Production
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Novelist Shane Connaughton, who also wrote the script for
My Left Foot
(1989) and
The Playboys
(1992), adapted the script from his novel.
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The film shares some of the same thematic and stylistic qualities of Yates's second movie of 1995 ?
Roommates
.
The movie was mainly filmed on location in
Redhills
and near
Ballyhaise
, neighbouring villages in
County Cavan
. Some scenes were filmed in
Clones
,
County Monaghan
, a town near Redhills. Other locations in the
Republic of Ireland
were also used.
Reception
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Michael Wilmington of the
Chicago Tribune
said, "Peter Yates' best or best-remembered movies...all excel at showing male interaction. And that's one of the strong points of
Run of the Country.
Just as Finney's outstanding trait as an actor is the solidity he gives his parts?his growly voice and bulldog chin pulling the audience one way, his yearning eyes pulling them another?Yates's direction, at its best, has an earthy reliability."
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