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Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep play masterfully off each, but Ironweed's unrelenting bleakness proves to be more monotonous than compelling. Read critic reviews
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In Depression-era Albany, N.Y., erstwhile baseball star Francis Phelan (Jack Nicholson) has become an alcoholic vagabond after guilt over accidentally killing his infant son led him to desert his family. Over the course of several days, he ambles from gritty job to dirty bar to makeshift sleeping quarters. By chance, he encounters fellow itinerant drinker and his sometime lover, Helen Archer (Meryl Streep). Together, they wax nostalgic about their haunted pasts.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Hector Babenco
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Producer: Keith Barish, Marcia Nasatir, Gene Kirkwood, C.O. Erickson
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Box Office (Gross USA): $6.9M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Columbia Tristar
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Production Co: Home Box Office (HBO), Keith Barish Productions, TAFT Entertainment
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Sound Mix: Surround
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Critic Reviews for Ironweed
Audience Reviews for Ironweed
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It looks like it was made by anyone, since Babenco directs it without any passion or conviction and wastes Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in a tiring narrative that becomes so unnecessarily long with a lot of scenes that could have been cut without any damage to the story.
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Nicholson and Streep simply just can't do it. What a tragedy for the finest actors of their generation. The script writer is at fault as this film bobs and weaves out of the control of its leads.
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Good cast promises and performances and an absorbing 30s environment wasted by lack of character's background exploration. It touched interesting concepts. Allow me to highlight the schizophrenia one. It is precisely because of the problem I mentioned that the (scary and) emotional impact that Francis' visions are supposed to have feel flat and unexplained. In the end, it came out as a random element that could have been excluded. On the other hand, certain flashbacks were engaging and felt like richer in content, but were abruptly cut. It's like trying to pee in peace and constantly getting interrupted so you can never finish. But as a final line, I'd like this to remain: Ironweed does not deserve to be ignored with the intensity it is today. 67/100
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I wasn't a fan. The acting was good, but the story was very depressing and a little slow-moving.
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