Dancing at Lughnasa

United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

1998

95 Min

Color

English

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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EXEC Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Rod Stoneman

SCR Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, William Butler Yeats

CAST Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan, Rhys Ifans, Darrell Johnston, Lorcan Cranitch, John Kavanagh, Marie Mullen, Dawn Bradfield, Peter Gowen, Kate O'Toole, Gerard McSorley

MUSIC Bill Whelan

Telluride, Toronto, Venice (In Competition)

Director

Pat O'Connor

Pat O’Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.

In 1982, O’Connor won a Jacob’s Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor’s short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, County Mayo. He also directed Trevor’s One of Ourselves for BBC TV, again starring Cyril Cusack, and filmed in Cappoquin and Lismore, Co. Waterford.

O’Connor has been married since 1990 to Oscar-nominated actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, with whom he has two sons. He directed Mastrantonio in another William Trevor film adaptation, Fools of Fortune as well as The January Man. —Wikipedia