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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 11/03/2009 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 13 mins Studio: Lionsgate Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Psychological Drama, Marriage Drama See Also: The Dead

The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's -Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and Julia Morkan (Cathleen Delany). At the home of these two curious ladies, Gretta is prodded into remembering her long-dead lover. She tearfully reveals to her husband (Donal McCann) that the deceased boy may well have died on her behalf. Her tale of woe bespeaks the sentiment shared by James Joyce: no matter how long in their graves, the dead will always influence the living. Adding to the film's elegiac quality, it stars Huston's daughter Anjelica and was co-written with his son Tony Huston. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Anjelica Huston - Gretta Conroy
Donal McCann - Gabriel Conroy
Rachel Dowling - Lily
Cathleen Delaney - Aunt Julia Morkan
Helena Carroll - Aunt Kate Morkan