Saturday, December 20, 2008
Day 19: The Last of the High Kings
This movie must have been marketed poorly when it was made. I'd never heard of it and it came out in 1996. On the IMDB page there are promo photos that show the title as "Summer Fling" and make it look like a really cheesy teen sex comedy. They put Christina Ricci and Gabriel Byrne on the cover even though their roles were very minor. The story is pretty good and stands on its own merits without the packaging. Jared Leto plays the oldest of 4 (or so) children of an absent father and overbearing mother (Catherine O'Hara). Leto's character angers his mother by consorting with Protestant girls, betraying her strict Catholic rules. O'Hara is great as a religious and political zealot, and has most of the memorable scenes.
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Forgot to mention it's set in Ireland in 1977.
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