Far and Away (1997, VHS)

Wow -- a school movie I actually enjoyed! I had the privilege of watching "Far and Away" in my eleventh grade history class. We were studying that time period, most especially immigration and the era of the Big Bosses. I had never heard of this movie, but when I realized it starred Tom Cruise and featured all Irish characters, I was more than willing to watch it with rapt attention. I already liked Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise with an Irish accent is, as far as I'm concerned, about the epitomy of dreaminess. Oddly enough, I was not familiar with his wife, Nicole Kidman, who stars opposite him...

America, the land of the free, the land of prosperity. America was the dream of every pauper, every men who s willing to work but cannot survive where they are. What we re looking at in this film is the poverty that Joseph Donnelly faced (played by Tom Cruise). At the start of the show, we see Joseph s father die twice, and he came back because he wanted to tell his son how Joseph had weird ideas in his head, very much like his old man. The setting at the beginning of the film, by the way, is in Ireland, the land of religion differences and alcohol. Joseph was keen on owning his own land and.

This has to be one of my favorite movies. I caught it once on late-night TV years ago, and have never been able to get it out of my mind. I rented it the next day and continued to rent it sporadically for the next few years until I finally found a copy to purchase. This movie is witty, charming, and incredibly realistic. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as Joseph Donnelly, a poor tenant farmer who wants nothing more than his own plot of land and Shannon Christie, the daughter of the landlord who holds Joseph's land. It begins simply enough: Joseph's father is killed during a riot against.

Okay, so that line isn't really a description of the movie, but it's one of my favorite lines from this wonderful film. A historical romance starring husband/wife acting team Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Far and Away captured my heart from the moment these two star-crossed lovers met. Far and Away takes place in both America and Ireland in a time period where thousands of European immigrants traveled to the New World to claim the free Western land for themselves. This basic plot is complicated by the meeting of two very different Irish worlds. Tom Cruise is Joseph Donnelly, a poor Catholic...