Richard Harris
`'Bull'` McCabe
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The Field: Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Richard Harris, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty, Brenda Fricker. When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
IMDb 7.3 1 h 58 min 1990 PG-13. Drama • Suspense. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location. Richard Harris made a triumphant return to the screen and received an Oscar Nomination for this intense portrayal of a peasant who battles wealthy American developers.
The Field is a 1990 Irish drama film written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger. It was adapted from John B. Keane's 1965 play of the same name. The film is set in the early 1930s and was shot almost entirely in the Connemara village of Leenaun.
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The Field. 107 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1991. Roger Ebert. March 1, 1991. 3 min read. “The Field” is a grim allegory of hard life on the land – a symbolic play, transplanted uneasily to the greater realism of the film medium, where what we might accept on the stage now looks contrived and artificial.
A rich American (Tom Berenger) with visions of a factory on the site outbids him, and McCabe then schemes with his emotionally crippled son, Tadgh (Sean Bean), to hold on to the land --...
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"Bull" McCabe (Richard Harris) has spent three decades tending a rented field on the bluffs by the sea in Ireland. When the wealthy widow who owns the plot...
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
