Fools of Fortune

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Fools of Fortune
Fools of fortune film poster.jpg
Directed by Pat O'Connor
Screenplay by Michael Hirst
Based onFools of Fortune by William Trevor
Produced by Sarah Radclyffe
Starring
Cinematography Jerzy Zielinski
Edited byMichael Bradsell
Music by Hans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed by Palace Pictures
Release date
  • 22 June 1990 (1990-06-22)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget £2.5 million
Box office USD$83,490 [1]

Fools of Fortune is a 1990 Irish romantic drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and written by Michael Hirst based on the 1983 novel by Irish writer William Trevor. It depicts a Protestant family caught up in the conflict between the British Army and the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. [2]

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Cast

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." [3] The Washington Post described it as "a passionate, mystifyingly awkward bit of filmmaking". [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Fools of Fortune (1990)". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ↑ BFI.org
  3. 1 2 Hinson, Hal (27 October 1990). "Fools of Fortune". The Washington Post.


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