The Irish psyche unfurled in a squabble over a patch of green, which an "outsider" from America wants to cover in concrete. For all its smallness, a movie of tall corn -- of mechanical dramaturgy (see the auction scene, where the American hides under an umbrella until "Fifty pounds once, fifty pounds twice ...") and writerly dialogue ("You could do worse than lie with the tinker's daughter under the stars!") and nonstop picturesqueness, from the mistiest landscape to the grittiest closeup (the tooth-blackened, chin-jutting John Hurt). With Richard Harris, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, and Brenda Fricker; directed by Jim Sheridan. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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