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The Dead
Directed by
John Huston
PG
1987
83m
Drama
7.2
94%
76%
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Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
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Cast of The Dead
Anjelica Huston
Gretta Conroy
Donal McCann
Gabriel Conroy
Dan O'Herlihy
Mr. Browne
Helena Carroll
Aunt Kate
Cathleen Delany
Aunt Julia
Ingrid Craigie
Mary Jane
Donal Donnelly
Freddy Malins
Colm Meaney
Mr. Bergin
Rachael Dowling
Lily
Marie Kean
Mrs. Malins
Frank Patterson
Bartell D'Arcy
Lyda Anderson
Miss Daly
Kate O'Toole
Miss Furlong
Bairbre Dowling
Miss Higgins
Maria McDermottroe
Molly Ivors
Sean McClory
Mr. Grace
Brendan Dillon
Cabman
Paul Grant
1st Young Gentleman
Dara Clarke
Young Lady
Redmond Gleeson
Nightporter at the Gresham
Maria Hayden
Miss O'Callaghan
Cormac O'Herlihy
Mr. Kerrigan
Paul Carroll
2nd Young Gentleman
Patrick Gallagher
3rd Young Gentleman
John Huston
Director
Tony Huston
Writer
Wieland Schulz-Keil
Producer
Chris Sievernich
Producer
The Dead Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The movie is a demonstration of what, in Huston's terms, movies can give you that print can't: primarily, the glory of performers -- performers with faces that have been written on by time and skill, performers with voices.
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Farah Cheded
Even if it wasn't the capstone to [Huston's] illustrious career, The Dead would still stand as one of the finest treatments of mortality and longing ever committed to the screen.
Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
The Dead is not the kind of film people rush out to see. It's a slow, methodical film that highlights Huston's skills as a filmmaker while feeling as intimate and uncomplicated as any film he'd ever made.
The New York Review of Books
Denis Donoghue
Huston's film is not flawless, but even its flaws are generous. The entire film is suffused with a sense of values vulnerable but not yet gone, of eloquence not yet disabled by irony.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Anjelica Huston is effective as a woman mourning a love lost.
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
The film is a masterpiece, both a worthy translation of James Joyce's story and a wonderful summation of John Huston's career.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A personal film for John Huston, starring daughter Anjelica and adapted to the screen by son Tony, this very last work evokes beautifully the mood and texture of James Joyce's lyrical story.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
... a small masterpiece, a film of exquisite grace and understated power.
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
a finely polished jewel and a wonderful way to remember a great director.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
What redeems Huston's last gasp is the observational framing and agile editing with which the Morkan sisters' soiree is captured.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
One of cinema's best literary adaptations.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
There's also a rather awesome and unpretentious directness as well as calmness about the way that Huston contemplates his own rapidly approaching death.
Variety
Variety Staff
A well-crafted miniature, this dramatization of the Joyce story directly addresses the theme of how the 'shades' from 'that other world' can still live in those who still walk the earth.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A true labor of love -- a masterpiece, and perhaps the crowning achievement of a long, varied and highly celebrated career.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
That Huston should have dared search for the story's cinema life is astonishing. That he should have found it with such seeming ease is the mark of a master.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Huston was an old man when he died, but he had not withered dismally with age because he still had the courage and the imagination to attempt to make an impossible film of the greatest story that he had ever read.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The movie was Huston's last and it's a great culminating work. As such, it couldn't be more perfect.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There's a certain disarming sweetness to the film. The scenes are lit in amber warmth and Joyce's Dublin fable of lost hopes and living memories is treated with respect. But the acting pool is only adequate.
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