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- Handsomely mounted and amiably performed but leisurely and without much dramatic urgency, Ron Howard’s robust epic stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as class-crossed lovers who take nearly the entire picture to get together. Cruise’s name and Howard’s commercial rep point to a healthy but probably not boffo B.O. life.
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"Far and Away" is a movie that joins astonishing visual splendor with a story so simple-minded it seems intended for adolescents; watching it, I kept being reminded of the "Childhoods of Famous Americans" books, in which plucky young people made their way in life.
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Intense and melodramatic Cruise-Kidman immigrant epic. Read Common Sense Media's Far and Away review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Tom Cruise
- Ron Howard
- Universal Pictures
Mar 18, 2022 · Ron Howard poured everything he had into his 1992 ode to his Irish heritage. Here's why Far and Away needed some trimming.
- 4 min
With its terrific cast and splendid production values, Howard's family saga looks like far and away the grandest new-old movie of 1992. Full Review | May 29, 2018
While the whole rich girl falls in love with the poor boy routine is a little over done, Far and Away is actually a very romantic and wonderful movie starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I think because they had such great chemistry, they made this movie into a tear jerker.
Handsome and simplistic, Far and Away has the beauty of an American epic without the breadth. Read Critics Reviews
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- Drama, Adventure, Romance
- PG-13
May 11, 1992 · Some of the detail results in needless dawdling. Joseph’s sentimental dreaming of Shannon and the couple’s let’s-pretend-we’re-rich interlude in a Boston mansion are embarrassing, and the lull...
