A Month in the Country

December. 04,1987      
Rating:
6.8
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A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.

Colin Firth as  Tom Birkin
Kenneth Branagh as  James Soon
Natasha Richardson as  Alice Keach
Patrick Malahide as  Reverend Keach
Jim Carter as  Ellerbeck
Richard Vernon as  Colonel Hebron
Tony Haygarth as  Douthwaite
Tim Barker as  Mossop
Barbara Marten as  Mrs Sykes
Ken Kitson as  Mr Sykes

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Reviews

WasAnnon
1987/12/04

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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Lucybespro
1987/12/05

It is a performances centric movie

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StyleSk8r
1987/12/06

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Juana
1987/12/07

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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