Ash Wednesday (2002)

Regisseur:

Edward Burns

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Edward Burns (written by)

Premierendatum:

19. März 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Plot Keywords:

Day In Title | Ethnic Slur | Ethnic Hatred | Racial Slur | New York City

Nutzerkommentare:

Awful

Besetzung

Brian Burns	...	Cousin Mike Moran
Vincent Rubino	...	Vinny Boombata
Jimmy Cummings	...	J.C. (as James Cummings)
Elijah Wood	...	Sean Sullivan
Pat McNamara	...	Murph
John DiResta	...	Pete at the Bar
Edward Burns	...	Francis Sullivan
Malachy McCourt	...	Whitey
Chris McGovern	...	Whitey's Driver (as Christopher McGovern)
Peter Gerety	...	Uncle Handy
Jimmy Burke	...	Red Kelly (as James Burke)
Stephen Murphy	...	Whitey's Man
Brian Delate	...	Crazy George Cullen
Teresa Yenque	...	Mrs. Diaz
Julie Hale	...	Maggie Shea

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive language and some violence.

Länge:

99 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Spanisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Canada:14A | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:18 | USA:R | Iceland:16

Drehorte:

Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

IFC Productions

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: In the beginning, three years after the opening shooting, when a group of guys are at the bar, one comments on how Dolly Parton was on Johnny Carson last night. Dolly Parton didn't appear on the Tonight Show in the 1980s until 1986.

Dialogzitate:

Francis: They thought you were the smart one? I must've looked like a friggin' retard!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt Black and White (1999/I)

Soundtrack:

Fight the Good Fight

Awful

What do you get when you combine inane dialogue, a lackluster plot, half-developed characters, and a terrible musical score? Ash Wednesday. The film had potential to be at least mediocre, but it just didn't work. The film was based around a weak, predictable plot that was filled with glaring plot-holes, and the characters and relationships were too underdeveloped to even make the film a character-driven story. Characters wander in and out of the plot without ever gathering much sympathy or hatred from audiences, and eventually it becomes difficult to care what happens to any of them. Even their dialogue is pitiful: swearing is fine in movies, but this film goes beyond overkill with its ridiculous amount of profanity, even to the point where it becomes distracting. Rather than encouraging viewers to listen for meaning in the characters' words, this film's dialogue quickly becomes a game of seeing just how many variations of the "F word" can be jammed into a single sentence. Just in case the film itself isn't horrible enough, the musical score is also horrendous. It has some sort of bizarre attempt at a musical motive, but it is annoyingly repetitive and changes little from scene to scene. When the film finally limps into its unsatisfying conclusion, those few who managed to sit all the way through it will be wishing that they hadn't wasted 98 minutes of their lives suffering through this film.