Philadelphia, Here I Come!

1974

Drama

IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 126 126

Plot summary

Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).

Director

John Quested Photo
John Quested

Top cast

Des Cave Photo
Des Cave as Gar
O.Z. Whitehead Photo
O.Z. Whitehead as Ben Burton
Liam Redmond Photo
Liam Redmond as Senator Doogan
Siobhan McKenna Photo
Siobhan McKenna as Madge
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
872.72 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds ...
1.58 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TxMike

Adapted from the play, an Irishman goes to the USA.

Reviewed by tarahoney91 5 / 10

Great story, Not a great portrayal of the book.

This is a film based on a play and while its carried out with no fuss or frills in the style of a stage act, it deviates from the text too much for my liking, even changing some dialect, losing some authenticity with it. The ending of the book is so important to the story in my opinion and it doesn't match the ending of the film. Also I found the acting to be wooden and a lot of the accents to be terrible!The film is supposedly set in Donegal and yet the two main characters, and more with them, have posh English accents a lot of the time, and when they do put on an Irish accent, its the likes of which you'd find in either cork or Dublin. And Madge is such a Dub that its funny. You'd think that you were watching an episode of Fair City. Read the book. Its better.
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