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Director:

Alfonso Arau

Writers:

Booth Tarkington (novel)
Orson Welles (1942 screenplay)

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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:
(2 articles)

'Wc' UK Premiere at Portobello Film Festival
 (From IFTN. 1 September 2009, 7:27 AM, PDT)

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:

[repeated line]
George Amberson Minafer: Out of my way!
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Movie Connections:

Version of Pampered Youth (1925/I) more


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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Misguided Adaptation, 29 June 2006
1/10
Author: Shane James Bordas from United Kingdom

If you are a fan of Orson Welles, I have only one word of advice for you: avoid. This is a truly dire and misguided attempt to 'correct' Welles' masterpiece by including passages from Booth Tarkington's novel to make up for the long lost sequences cut by RKO in the 1940's. What the filmmakers have overlooked, however, is to include modern equivalents for the innovative direction, lighting and great performances that make the original version (even in its forever truncated form) one of the most eminent masterworks in American cinema. Although I will refrain from going into length here about its many shortcomings, the main detraction (even for curiosity's sake) is the (mis)casting of the wooden Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as George Amberson Miniver. No match for the wonderful Tim Holt, Rhys-Meyers pouts and whines his way through the film with seemingly no understanding of what the story is about or is trying to convey. Taking the shallowness and pomp of the character too literally, this vanity performance shows no inner life and, as a result, the character arc is practically nil. For those of you who want some idea of what Welles had originally shown that ungrateful audience in Pamona, track down a copy of Peter Bogdanovich's book-length interview with Orson ('This Is Orson Welles') and refer to the appendix which contains stills and script pages that reconstruct the missing scenes. Beware though, it just might make you cry.

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