Fools of Fortune
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Cast
- Iain Glen as Willie Quinton
- Sean T. McClory as young Willie
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Marianne
- Julie Christie as Mrs. Quinton
- Catherine McFadden as Imelda
- Amy-Joyce Hastings (credited as Amy Hastings) as Geraldine Quinton
- Michael Kitchen as Mr. Quinton
- Hazel Flanagan as Deirdre Quinton
- Frankie McCafferty as Tim Paddy
- Niamh Cusack as Josephine
- John Kavanagh as Johnny Lacy
Production
It was filmed on location in Dublin, County Westmeath, Galway and at Ardmore Studios.
O'Connor recruited twice Oscar-nominated designer Judy Moorcroft to provide costumes for the film.
Release
The film went to VHS and Laserdisc, but has not yet appeared on DVD.
New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby described the film as "an ambitious mess, of interest only because of the chance to see [Julie] Christie, who becomes more and more tautly beautiful with the years, and [Mary Elizabeth] Mastrantonio, who is also beautiful and does an extremely credible upper-class English accent."[2] The Washington Post described it as "a passionate, mystifyingly awkward bit of filmmaking".[2]
References
External links
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- 1990 films
- 1990s historical romance films
- 1990 romantic drama films
- British romantic drama films
- Films based on works by William Trevor
- Films directed by Pat O'Connor
- Films scored by Hans Zimmer
- Films set in Ireland
- Films shot in Ireland
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment films
- Working Title Films films
- British historical romance films
- 1990s English-language films
- 1990s British films
- Irish War of Independence films
- English-language romantic drama films
- English-language historical romance films