Irish Tenor A+
Added 11/30/2009
The BIG surprise in this video was Ned Beatty, in a role so very different from any I had ever seen him in before. The whole movie was a real delight... with a surprise ending... a "feel-good" ending. It is a video I intend to keep and watch over and over. Adrian Dunbar and James Nesbitt were outstanding, too.
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AT LAST ON DVD.......HOPEFULLY!
Added 7/7/2009
I've loved this movie since I saw it in the theatre years ago. I have an old worn-out "homemade" copy from the days before "copy guard" was on rental tapes. I watch it at least 2-3 times a year.
I have been replacing my VHS collection over the past few years & this film is one of the last ones I need. (I FINALLY got ENCHANTED APRIL a couple months ago after waiting YEARS for it to come out on DVD)
I'm on the wait-list for HMS & will order as soon as it is available.
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Hear My Song
Added 1/11/2009
For someone of Irish Ancestry (or anyone else for that matter who wants to see a great story) and interesed in the beauty of the culture, this is a really nice experience. Unfortunately, it is not yet available in DVD so you have to settle for video cassette if you want to see it. As an Irish American, I have been to Ireland three times now. I really enjoyed the scenes filmed there although much of the film is actually supposed to take place in an Irish community in England and large parts appear to be filmed there. I purchased a copy and sent it to my family in Phila. to share it with them.
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Sinatra (Cinatra?) Knew A Good Thing When He Heard It
Added 12/16/2007
"Hear My Song" (1992), an Irish film, a romantic musical comedy/drama, was written by its star, Adrian Dunbar, with Peter Chelsom, its first-time director, and is filmed on location in gritty Liverpool, England, and the lovely Irish countryside. It's based on the life story of the Irish tenor Josef Locke, born Joseph McLaughlin, who knew great success in England, but was driven back to his home country by the tax man.
Adrian Dunbar, a frequently-seen actor, plays Micky O'Neill, who has leased a down-at-heels Liverpool nightclub from the large and boisterous Irish-English Ryan family (Liverpool has lots of Irish immigrants, and their descendents). He proceeds to run the club further into the ground through bad bookings; first there's Franc Cinatra, then Mr. X, allegedly Joe Locke. But Mr. X was worse than a bad business decision: the mother, Cathleen Doyle (played by the still-gorgeous Shirley Ann Field), of Micky's lovely girlfriend Nancy Doyle, (played by the luminous Tara Fitzgerald) once had a thing with the real Joe Locke, and Mr. X, at Micky's instigation, has taken advantage of her. The Ryans and the Doyles are furious with Micky: the situation's desperate. So he decides to hobo off to Ireland, to track down the real Joe Locke, (played by Ned Beatty, enjoying the role of his life). Once in Ireland, Micky meets up with his best friend, Fintan O'Donnell, a booking agent,played by the also frequently seen James Nesbitt. (Oddly enough, both Dunbar and Nesbitt are sons of Northern Ireland.) The friends find Locke and his senior-citizen posse, and lure them back to the U.K. to save Micky's hide. In the U.K., of course, the taxman, Jim Abbott, played to the hilt by David McCallum, "That Man from Uncle," remembers Locke only too well.
The movie was made for less than 2 million pounds, in less than six weeks, but it's consistently funny, although admittedly lightweight, sometimes sentimental. Micky has a great repeating line, "I haven't been where you've been, I haven't seen what you've seen," and commitment issues. A cow figures in two hilarious scenes. Beatty seamlessly lip-synchs to the glorious work of an actual well-known Irish tenor, with whom I'm not familiar. Between them they deliver a marvelous "Hear My Song," that leaves not a dry eye, nor seat, in the house. (I've got another rendition of that song in my house, by the young Frank Sinatra, who was, of course, a pretty good tenor himself. And he knew a good thing when he heard it.)
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Hear My Song
Added 4/13/2007
This is the best movie of all time!!!!!! Forget about Casablanca, Citizen Kane and even Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Watch if again and again and again and again and again!!!
Must be put on dvd!!! I am afraid our vhs tape will disintegrate!!!
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Irish Tenor A+
Added 11/30/2009
The BIG surprise in this video was Ned Beatty, in a role so very different from any I had ever seen him in before. The whole movie was a real delight... with a surprise ending... a "feel-good" ending. It is a video I intend to keep and watch over and over. Adrian Dunbar and James Nesbitt were outstanding, too.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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AT LAST ON DVD.......HOPEFULLY!
Added 7/7/2009
I've loved this movie since I saw it in the theatre years ago. I have an old worn-out "homemade" copy from the days before "copy guard" was on rental tapes. I watch it at least 2-3 times a year.
I have been replacing my VHS collection over the past few years & this film is one of the last ones I need. (I FINALLY got ENCHANTED APRIL a couple months ago after waiting YEARS for it to come out on DVD)
I'm on the wait-list for HMS & will order as soon as it is available.
1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Hear My Song
Added 1/11/2009
For someone of Irish Ancestry (or anyone else for that matter who wants to see a great story) and interesed in the beauty of the culture, this is a really nice experience. Unfortunately, it is not yet available in DVD so you have to settle for video cassette if you want to see it. As an Irish American, I have been to Ireland three times now. I really enjoyed the scenes filmed there although much of the film is actually supposed to take place in an Irish community in England and large parts appear to be filmed there. I purchased a copy and sent it to my family in Phila. to share it with them.
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