Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/19/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0/DTS
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
In the Irish town of Kilshannon in the 1920s, a matriarchal clique of widows tightly sets the rules for behavior. Heading the town's ruling circle is the doughty Mrs. Counihan (
Joan Plowright). The only non-widow in town is a reclusive middle-aged spinster, Miss O'Hare (
Mia Farrow), who seems to be guarding some kind of secret. Crashing into this provincial coterie is dashing, urbane Edwina Broome (
Natasha Richardson), who immediately starts feuding with O'Hare, for no apparent good reason. Broome mangles O'Hare's prize roses and bumps her skiff in a boat race. Counihan's dimwitted son, Godfrey (
Adrian Dunbar), proposes marriage to Edwina. Eventually, the true motives of all involved are revealed.
~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide