HEAR MY SONG
A film review by J. C. Deck
Copyright 1992 J. C. Deck
It's just too bad that a fine film like this one won't get the exposure of, say, STOP, OR MY MOTHER WILL SHOOT so that lots of audiences could see excellence in film production. HEAR MY SONG provides us with humor, romance, human interest, and some really colorful characters.
The only stars familiar to United States viewers in the film are Ned Beatty and David McCallum (of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. fame). McCallum has a minor role but plays it to the hilt. And Ned Beatty--who'd have thought that Lex Luthor's assistant in SUPERMAN was also a major league actor? By the way, I watched the credits carefully and that's *not* Jack Elam as one of Beatty's buddies. Everyone else is just superb (I liked the Ryan sisters). The plot moves very well and is so well photographed that Ireland's tourist authority should underwrite the scenes set in Ireland. The comedy is great (the cow scene provoked the audience to laugh aloud) and the music is fine. Try to see this film in a theater with a better-than-average sound system: it will add to your viewing pleasure.
One last note, the character played by Ned Beatty is a real-life living person--that fact is like the cherry atop a fine, soda fountain sundae which emulates the pleasurable experience that viewing this movie provides. Don't wait for the video on this one, you'll lose a bit o' the magic on the small screen. This one deserves to be seen at full price--you'll get your money's worth.
J C Deck
.
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews