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Ironweed
Directed by
Héctor Babenco
R
1987
2h 23m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
6.7
58%
58%
6.3
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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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Ironweed Ratings & Reviews
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...the picture, which runs a palpably padded-out 143 minutes, has been suffused with a decidedly sluggish pace that's exacerbated by the episodic, momentum-free narrative...
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.
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.
TV Guide
Dim, grim, and relentlessly depressing.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Watching "Ironweed" is like having a large, metal object lodged in your brain for 2 1/2 hours. It hurts.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
The film becomes becalmed and confusing; it lacks the novel's great unwavering trajectory.
Variety
Variety Staff
Unrelentingly bleak, Ironweed is a film without an audience and no reason for being except its own self-importance.
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
Filmcritic.com
Chris Seibold
deftly done
Spirituality & Practice
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.
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.
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.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
"Ironweed" is decent fare, not excellent. It gets by on the strength of the unexpected.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Comes about as close to being an unmitigated waste of talent as any movie in recent memory.
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