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Ironweed
Directed by
Héctor Babenco
R
1987
2h 23m
Drama
6.7
60%
59%
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An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Cast of Ironweed
Jack Nicholson
Francis Phelan
Meryl Streep
Helen Archer
Carroll Baker
Annie Phelan
Michael O'Keefe
Billy
Diane Venora
Peg
Fred Gwynne
Oscar Reo
Margaret Whitton
Katrina
Tom Waits
Rudy
Jake Dengel
Pee Wee
Nathan Lane
Harold Allen
James Gammon
Reverend Chester
Laura Esterman
Rowdy Dick
Will Zahrn
Nora
Joe Grifasi
Jack
Hy Anzell
Rosskam
Bethel Leslie
Librarian
Richard Hamilton
Donovan
Black-Eyed Susan
Clara
Louise Phillips
Flower Girl
Marjorie Slocum
Elderly Woman
Lena Spencer
Slatternly Woman
Lola Pashalinski
Fat Woman with Turkey
Paul A. DiCocco Jr.
Bus Driver
Priscilla Smith
Sandra
James Dukas
Finny
Jared Swartout
Guard Captain
Ted Levine
Pocono Pete
Martin Patterson
Foxy Phil Tooker
Terry O'Reilly
Aldo Campione
Michael O'Gorman
Strike Leader
Frank Whaley
Young Francis
Jordan Valdina
Youth at Strike
Louis St. Louis
Piano Man
John Wright
Goblin
Robin Wood-Chappelle
Goblin
Nicole Weden
Goblin
Peter Pryor
Goblin
Duane Scholz
Goblin
Matt McGrath
Goblin
Lois Barden Stilley
Mrs. Dillon
Cori Irwin
Young Girl
Pamela Payton-Wright
Mother
Boris McGiver
Clerk
Phyllis Gottung
Old Woman
James Yoham
Bald Man
Ean Egas
Danny
Nebraska Brace
Andy
Jeff Morris
Michigan Mac
William Duell
Moose
George Rafferty
Raider
Robert Manion
Raider
Pat Devane
Nurse
Ironweed Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Actors are said to like to play drunks, because it gives them an excuse for overacting. But there is not much visible "acting" in this movie; the actors are too good for that.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Despite its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, its superstar cast and its $23 million budget, Mr. Babenco's ''Ironweed'' is skeletal, a mere outline of Mr. Kennedy's far more resonant book.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
The film becomes becalmed and confusing; it lacks the novel's great unwavering trajectory.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Seibold
deftly done
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
...slow and crushing, a heavy film that has a simple plot, a despairing tone and none of the ostentatious "acting" often evinced in Nicholson's later career
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Watching "Ironweed" is like having a large, metal object lodged in your brain for 2 1/2 hours. It hurts.
Variety
Variety Staff
Unrelentingly bleak, Ironweed is a film without an audience and no reason for being except its own self-importance.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Comes about as close to being an unmitigated waste of talent as any movie in recent memory.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
"Ironweed" is decent fare, not excellent. It gets by on the strength of the unexpected.
United Press International
Cathy Burke
Ironweed makes the sadness seem isolated and dangerous and unreal; it only exists where the bums live, it doesn't reach into the lives of good families.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Hector Babenco puts the accent on the story's spiritual dimensions in this screen translation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
TV Guide
Dim, grim, and relentlessly depressing.
Midwest Film Journal
Nick Rogers
Few would argue Meryl Streep's Oscar loss to Cher in "Moonstruck." Neither would many defend "Ironwood" as a lost Streep gem. At least she delivers several majestic moments in an otherwise middling effort.
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