| The Brothers Mcmullen |
Article Index for The Brothers |
Website Links For Brothers Mcmullen |
Information AboutThe Brothers Mcmullen |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN | |
| 1995 films | |
| brothers mcmullen, the | |
| 1995 sundance film festival | |
| sundance film festival award winners | |
| irish-american culture | |
|
Director Ed Burns wrote the script for ''The Brothers McMullen'' in the spring of 1993 while working as a production assistant for "Entertainment Tonight", bringing his own breezy, upbeat New York Irish Catholic perspective to the riddle of piecing together basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s . As Burns's first film, it suffers from some of the problems of first films: the script contains too much dialogue, too much explanation of what the actors are thinking and feeling, too easy a character arc, and too predictable an outcome. The execution suffers from occasional poor lighting, occasional grainy film, and a lack of camera movement. But the real adventure of watching the movie is being able to see a Hollywood outsider make a feature film of such quality. Scraping together $28,000 for 16 mm film, good actors, good cinematographers, good locations, good sound and being able to put it all together into an entertaining package is a feat that many of us enjoy watching just because we want to root for the underdog. Compared to '' a first film that won an award at [Sundance Film Festival a few years earlier, there is a major difference. Some of the dialog is beautiful: On how to break up with a girlfriend who is talking about marriage: "You came to the right man. It's really quite simple. The key is finding the right place. I usually like to meet them at work, because you usually have a lot of people around, they're not going to make a big scene, and you don't have to drive them home after you just broke their heart." Another gem: "Your wife is the last woman you'll see completely naked and be allowed to touch. It's something to think about." The film grossed over ten million dollars at the box office. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival . |
|
|