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WHAT THEY NEEDED WAS A COUNTRY BIG ENOUGH FOR THEIR DREAMS.TOM CRUISE AND NICOLE KIDMAN STAR IN THIS CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED ROMANTIC ADVENTURE FROM DIRECTOR RON HOWARD. THIS BREATHTAKING EPIC OPENS ON THE WEST COAST OF IRELAND,1892 JOSEPH DONELLY (CRUISE),A POOR TENANT FARMER, IS DETERMINED TO BRING JUSTICE TO AN OPPRESSIVE LANDLORD. INSTEAD,HE FINDS HIMSELF ACCOMPANYING THE LANDLORD'S DAUGHTER,SHANNON (KIDMAN),TO AMERICA IN A QUEST FOR LAND. ARRIVING IN BOSTON, JOSEPH FINDS A PLACE FOR THEM TO LIVE WHILE PROVING A NATURAL AT BARE-FISTED BOXING. BUT HIS TRUMPH IS SHORT-LIVED AS HE AND SHANNON ARE THROWN OUT INTO THE BITTER COLD. JOSEPH SETS OFF FOR WORK ON THE RAILROAD, UNTIL A PASSING WAGON TRAINS REMINDS HIM OF HIS ORIGINAL GOAL TO POSSESS HIS OWN LAND. PREPARING TO STAKE HIS CLAIM IN THE NEW TERRITORY. HE RUNS INTO SHANNON,WHO IS UNHAPPY REUNITED WITH HER FORMER FIANCE. IN THE EXCITEMENT OF THE OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH, THEY REALIZE THEIR DREAMS OF LAND AND LIFE TOGETHER IN THIS SATISFYING GRAND-SCALE ADVENTURE.Read full review
Then-husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman headlined this 1992 Ron Howard release. Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) is the headstrong brother of a family of tenant farmers, who finds himself on the boat to America after he originally went to his landlord's mannor to avenge his father's death. Donnelly does not initially realize that Mr. Christie is actually a likeable (if absent minded) fellow, and it is his family associates who are responsible for the murder and the home burning. These Protestants look down upon the Catholic Donnellys (among many other families) as being beneath them. While there, he meets their daughter Shannon, a firebrand self-described modern woman who would do ANYTHING to avoid ending up like her mother's stuffy Victorian friends. From ridding fast to wearing free clothes, Shannon wants much more out of life than what she originally had. When she teams up with Joseph, she gets it. After her spoons are convieniently stolen upon arrival in America, Shannon comes to the painful realization that she does not know what to do. She is now in the position of having to learn survival skills from Joseph (who poses as her brother) if she is going to make it out to Oklahoma. Sure, improbabilities abound in this film (Cruise hangs out with brothel girls in an age before the ready availability of condoms, but never gets venereal disease, Shannon and her family are magically reunited in Boston even after she wanted nothing to do with them and did not appear to know their new address, and Mr. Christie himself has no problems pulling his own weight in America while the rest of his family had not known how to do these things). An excellent camera panning, a generally good script, and the hit 'book of days' by Enya easily compensate for any flaws. You become so involved in this film that the screenplay length ultimately does not matter. Well-crafted suprises maintain interest in the entire story. Cruise and Kidman's off-screen romance is by now a distant memory, but this film will keep your own passions burning brightly.Read full review
Historical fiction meets romance novel, but it comes together nicely. Nicole Kidman (back when she was still pretty) and Tom Cruise (not playing Tom Cruise, for once) both turn in solid performances as a fiery upper-class Irish girl and the earnest peasant who takes her under his wing. Extremely family-friendly; not a thing in it I'd hesitate to let a child see. Ron "Opie" Howard's usual attention to detail is apparent throughout, and the mossy Irish countryside, gritty Boston slums, and sweeping western vistas are as much characters in the story as any of the actors. A good old-fashioned American epic that makes you care about the characters, and feel good in the end. No surprises, but two-and-a-half hours sweeps by. Incidentally, it has one of the best insults ever caught on film: "...you ugly little fraction of a man!", hurled by Kidman (with just the right amount of haughty defiance) at Clint Howard (who always seems to find a part in big brother's films.)Read full review
This was made when movies had a plot and told a story. You can't go wrong with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
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A good dvd movie to watch with Nicole Kidman’s and Tom cruise set in Ireland .Thanks 🙏
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