Orphans
Are YOUR parents a burden?
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 17, 2001
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Gary Lewis, Douglas Henshall & Rosemarie Stevenson | |
| Directed by | Peter Mullan | |
| Edited by | Colin Monie | |
| Screenwriting by | Peter Mullan | |
| Composition by | Craig Armstrong | |
| Produced by | Frances Higson | |
| Director of Photography: | Grant Scott Cameron | |
| Executive Production by | Paddy Higson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: C- --
Writer-director Peter Mullan never seems clued in as to how hilariously atrocious Orphans is.
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Matinee Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
My guess is that Mullan never decided what tone his film should aim for; he fell in love with individual sequences without asking how they fit together.
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Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- Aiming to have you cry with laughter and weep real tears, it's an evocative window into the family's punch-drunk mindset.
Total Film
...Bold storytelling....The performances are universally strong...
Film Comment
...Mullan finds black comedy in the most unlikely places and shows enormous skill in keeping the audience on the hook....It's a wonderfully constructed script...
Box Office
...a kitchen-sink drama that's full of old dishwater.
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culturevulture.net
...ORPHANS is a film of great intensity and weird events...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply moving tale of a group of siblings who reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral. The four children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways, some of which are heartfelt and some of which are bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself even further.
Description by Image Entertainment:
Brought together by their mother's death, four siblings of a Catholic working class family are propelled into a comical nightmare of absurd mishaps and bittersweet mayhem. During a violent rainstorm, the three Flynn brothers and their wheelchair-bound sister gather on the eve of their dear mum's funeral to cope with their tragic loss. Each sibling, weathering the storm in their own peculiar way, retreats to a different world in their dark hometown of Glasgow where anything might, and does, happen. Winner, Best Film, at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
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