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“Ironweed” has been released while “Barfly,” another movie about a Skid Row couple, is still playing around the country. Do the movies bear comparison? “Barfly,” with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, has more energy, more life and humor, and is more directly about advanced alcoholism.
Ironweed is a 1987 American drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. Adapted to the screen by William Kennedy from his similarly named Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Ironweed stars Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, with Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Nathan Lane, and Tom Waits in supporting roles.
- $27 million
- John Morris
- December 18, 1987
Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar.
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Feb 12, 1988 · Ironweed: Directed by Hector Babenco. With Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe. An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
- (9.7K)
- Drama
- Hector Babenco
- 1988-02-12
Apr 24, 2019 · Ironweed (1987) If Plenty was slow, Out of Africa was overlong, and Heartburn was disappointing, Ironweed has to be considered one of the most downbeat and depressing films of Meryl’s career.
- Brian Rowe
Dec 18, 1987 · When the film reunites him with his wife (Carroll Baker), son (Michael O'Keefe) and daughter (Diane Venora), the meeting comes too late in the story to have much impact. Besides, this sequence is...
In Depression-era Albany, N.Y., erstwhile baseball star Francis Phelan (Jack Nicholson) has become an alcoholic vagabond after guilt over accidentally killing his infant son led him to desert his...
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- Drama
- R
