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Director:
Alfonso Arau
Writers:
Booth Tarkington (novel)
Orson Welles (1942 screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
13 January 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
A&E Defends Ambersons Remake
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 13 December 2001)

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Cast

  (Credited cast)

Madeleine Stowe ... Isabel Amberson Minafer

Bruce Greenwood ... Eugene Morgan

Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... George Amberson Minafer

Gretchen Mol ... Lucy Morgan

Jennifer Tilly ... Fanny Minafer

William Hootkins ... Uncle George
Dina Merrill ... Mrs. Johnson (as Dina Merrill-Hartley)

James Cromwell ... Major Amberson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jane Brennan ... Nurse
Kelly Campbell ... Lucy's Companion

Patrick Clarke ... Roger
Bernard Deegan ... Youth
Michael Devaney ... Eugene's Secretary
Mairead Devlin ... Nurse
Mark Doherty ... Drugstore Clerk
James Donnelly ... Forth Beau
Darren Donoghue ... Third Beau
Jonathan Forbes ... First Beau
Joe Gallagher ... First Policeman
David Gilliam ... Wilbur Minafer
Eamon Glancy ... Driver of Model T

Fiona Glascott ... Lucy's Friend #1

Kieran D. Gough ... Fred Kinney (Age 22)
Roger Michael Gregg ... Barber
Barbara Griffin ... Young Woman

Garrick Hagon ... Tom Kinney

Bosco Hogan ... Frank Bronson
Patrick Kennedy ... Fred Kinney (Age 9)
Martin Maguire ... Eugene's Chauffeur

Maura Kirzon Malone ... Passenger on Model T

Paul McGlinchey ... Labourer
Darren McHugh ... Charlie Johnson

Elizabeth Moynihan ... First Observer
Sue Mythen ... Mary, the Housemaid
Patrick David Nolan ... Reverend Smith
Jimmy O'Byrne ... Second Observer
Kevin O'Leary ... Second Beau

Ciaran O'Melia ... Charlie Johnson (Age 14)
Richard Orr ... Hardware Dealer
Michael Paye ... George (Age 14)
Eamon Rohan ... Sam the Butler
Anahthany Rojas ... Red Cap (Union Station)
Tiarnan Sparks ... Fred Kinney (Age 14)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Brazil:150 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Netherlands:6 | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: During George and Lucy's sleigh ride in town, George's lips frequently do not match what he's saying. more
Quotes:
George Amberson Minafer: [sobbing] You could have stopped it!
Fanny Minafer: No Georgie, no one could have stopped you, you were to strong.
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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
American Tragedy, 19 January 2002
7/10
Author: RodReels-2 from United States

I feel like I have to comment on this movie because of the rather indefensible comments of several reviewers. "The Magnificent Ambersons" is one of the great American tragedies; and its translation to the screen still remains a tragedy. I thought this A&E version was a lovely attempt although as Madeleine Stowe reportedly said before the production aired, they still didn't do it justice. If my understanding is correct, they were working from Orson Welles' original script which he was not allowed to bring to the screen in 1942. The tragedy of this production is that it is never quite as great as that flawed 1942 version, and so the informed viewer is left wondering what it would have been like to see Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Cotten play the final tragic scenes instead of Jennifer Tilly and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. I didn't think either Tilly or Meyers were particularly perfect for the parts; but they were neither as bad as many reviewers make them out to be nor as great as I remember Moorehead and Cotten to have been. So watch both screen versions, combine the two in your head, and you'll have one of the greatest movies never made.

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