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List Price: $9.99Price: $3.25 You Save: $6.74 (67%)as of 09/02/2010 12:45 EDT
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9786303066714
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6303066712
Maximum Color Depth: Walt Disney Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Walt Disney Video
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Walt Disney Video
Total Parallel Ports: November 06, 2001
Total S Video Out Ports: 97 minutes
Walt Disney Video
September 17, 1993
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Product Description:
When two brothers rescue a magical horse, it leads them on a mission of the lifetime.
Amazon.com:
Set mainly in the Ireland the tourist board didn't tell you about, Into the West is the story of a "traveling" family who have given up their traditional life of roaming, and find themselves trying to make it in the gritty, violent projects of Dublin. Gabriel Byrne is excellent as Papa Reilly, a once-proud father and leader whose grief over his wife's death has turned him into a booze-sodden has-been. His two sons, Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy) and Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald), escape the projects on an apparently magical white horse, Tir Na Nog, which leads them back to the West. After being forced to steal the horse back from a wealthy and ruthless horse dealer, they are pursued across the increasingly beautiful landscape by virtually all the policemen in Ireland. The much-loved actor David Kelly (Waking Ned Devine) does a nice turn as the grandfather, and Ellen Barkin is a surprising but believable choice as an old "traveling" friend of Papa Reilly. For better or for worse--mainly better--this is not the story Disney would have told: redemptive and uplifting at the end, it's realistic to the point of ugliness on the way there, with a style of cinematography that the Magic Kingdom has never been able to stomach. The younger brother, Ossie, is supposed to be 7, but the story itself is perhaps more appropriate for somewhat older children. Entertainment Weekly's best family video for 1994. --Richard Farr
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I'd only watched this on TV until this past week, when I got the DVD at my local library.
I'd always enjoyed it, but the movie I'd seen on the tube was missing a number of scenes
that were on the DVD, and it was SO much better. It's just an awfully good movie, and
one thing I like is that it's filmed in Ireland, rather than the Isle Of Man, like most little films
set in Ireland, such as The Boys and Girl From County Clare or Waking Ned Devine.
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I loved the movie EXCEPT for the very end...I think he should have given the photo to the boys so they could remember what Mummy looked like. To burn the only memory they could have of her was NOT right! They were haunted by not knowing what she looked like...and he took away the only way they could have had closure.
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This is a great story about modern-day gypsies or travelers, as they're known in Ireland, and the hardships faced by two brothers when their dad decides to quit the traveling life, but can't adapt. How the boys manage to survive and what happens when their grandfather brings a horse with him on his next stop in town, makes for a truly magical little story. I enjoyed it with my older grandaughter when she was around 8 or 9, and, since I couldn't find it to rent, was happy to find it here for such ... Read More
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Into the West is one of my favorite movies. It keeps you interested and amused the whole time. I highly recommend it to young and old, Irish or not.
LMGray
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This movie surprised and charmed me with its orignality, humour and depth.
People living in the slums of Dublin experiencing the unnamed pain of being cut off from their cultural roots and unable to express their personal grief. But for all of that, I laughed and laughed at some of the scenes of the children and the horse... in the lift, racing across Ireland. Wonderful. Powerful.
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