The Playboys Movie Review 1992

In 1957 in a tiny Irish village, unmarried Tara Maguire (Wright Penn) causes a scandal by having a baby. Her beauty attracts lots of men--there's a former beau who kills himself, the obsessive, middle-aged Sergeant Hegarty (Finney), and the newest arrival, Tom Castle (Quinn), an actor with a rag-tag theatrical troupe called the Playboys. Slow-moving and simple story with particularly good performances by Wright as the strong-willed Tara and Finney as Hegarty, clinging to a last chance at love and family. The Playboys' hysterically hammy version of "Gone With the Wind" is a gem. Directorial debut of Mackinnon. Filmed in the village of Redhills, Ireland, the hometown of co-writer Connaughton.

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Available on VHS
Running time 114 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Drama, Ireland, Period Piece: 1950s

Screenplay

Shane Connaughton, Kerry Crabbe

Cast

Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn, Milo O'Shea, Alan Devlin, Niamh Cusack, Ian McElhinney, Niall Buggy, Adrian Dunbar

Cinematography

Jack Conroy

Director

Gilles Mackinnon

Music

Jean-Claude Petit

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn Company