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An Everlasting Piece
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Release : | 2000 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Barry McEvoy Brían F. O'Byrne Anna Friel Pauline McLynn Ruth McCabe |
Genre : | Comedy Crime |
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Very best movie i ever watch
Highly Overrated But Still Good
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
One doesn't often encounter movies about hairpiece salespeople, so credit must go instantly to someone who dares to be different when contemporary cinema generally demands something more simple-minded; this film is anything but.From the very beginning, there are visual clues that the story deals with more than meets the eye--beginning with some incredibly vivid coastal shots; the camera will occasionally just sort of cruise off scene to pick up significant wall art, or highlight something about a neighborhood; meanwhile a zany story pits hair salesmen against each other in a race against time. The included preview hints that this is a Christmas film, but it is only in the way that Meet John Doe might be, using the holiday as a vague thematic background. On the surface, there are lots of laughs, but underlying that surface is a touching idea that only starts to broadly surface in the last ten or fifteen minutes, and it knocked me for an emotional loop, gently. By the way, I found that subtitles absolutely necessary, as the dialect is often quite difficult to understand, and its nice to have some assistance. Another underrated gem from Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is a very clever director (and writer). He obviously gathered a lot of information and insight on the pressure-cooker known as Northern Ireland. He delights in the borough's eccentricities and predilections. And, he endows his main characters with appropriate peculiarities. The unfolding of events is true to traditions of the region's humor and the indigenous cast know their character well and eat and breathe the area's history.But, we don't! Nor are we ever brought into it. Therefore the entire exercise seems contrived and self-important. It reminds me of being at a spouse's company party and hearing people reference people and projects that you know and understand nothing about -- yet you do not have the option of leaving the party. It is a series of inside jokes -- but we, the American audiences, are stuck on the outside.
An Everlasting Piece is a funny, witty and at times dark movie based on the escapades of a Protestant and Catholic barber who team up to take over the toupee market of Northern Ireland. If you look for deeper meaning in this movie you will find important moral lessons and some insight into the nature of conflict in general. There are dozens of quotable lines present, Billy Connolly has some real gems.Having never been to Northern Ireland, I believe this movie has given me some limited insight into 1980's Belfast. Most of the main characters are Catholic-Irish, and the film does seem slightly sympathetic to that side. If you are looking for more information on the atmosphere and troubles in N. Ireland I recommend reading Bad Blood, by Colm Toibin.The plot is fine 6/10 The humour is great 9/10 The dramatic element is good 7/10 Overall I'd give 7.5/10
I watched this movie with a friend, we both thought it was pretty lame. It starts out slow and slowly winds down to a crawl. I almost fell asleep watching it. The acting was wooden, the plot, ridiculous, the characters, extremely unbelievable. I gave it a 4/10 just because I like Ireland.