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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302168228
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302168228
Label: Live / Artisan
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Release Date: December 14, 1993
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 20208
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: 1991-03
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
After scoring an art-house hit and Oscar nominations for his previous film, My Left Foot, Irish director Jim Sheridan made this ambitious and hard-hitting drama, set in Ireland during the 1930s, about one man's obsession with a plot of land that his family has tended for generations. The results are decidedly mixed, and it's obvious that this kind of tragic allegory is better suited for the stage (where it originated as a play by John B. Keane). What makes the film worthwhile is the Oscar-nominated performance by Richard Harris as 'Bull' McCabe, the fiercely stubborn man who's nurtured a prime field of rented land for decades, only to lose it when the owner auctions the land to an unwelcome American (Tom Berenger). Rather than sacrifice his life's work to this brazen invader, McCabe wages a personal war with powerfully tragic results. It's unfortunate that this potent drama never really connects on an emotional level, but Harris is never less than fascinating in a role that seems to virtually consume him as an actor. His performance approaches greatness, even when the film falls somewhat short of its dramatic ambitions. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Harris Gives Powerful, Perhaps Too Powerful Performance
"The Field," (1990), an Irish movie, was the second to be made by the talented Irish director Jim Sheridan, who also gets the screenwriting credit on it. It was made from the well-known and -loved play of the same name by John B. Keane, who was a small-town publican in Co. Kerry, and evidently paid very close attention to what was going on around him. It's based on a true story about a bitter land dispute between a local man, "The Bull McCabe," played by noted Irish actor Richard Harris,who collected ... Read More
Rating: - Historical and cultural insight
The Field provides an accurate view of what it was like to live in the Republic of Ireland following independence. There was a mistrust of their former colonial rulers and a distain for the people who gave up during difficult times. Cultivating land and raising livestock was very difficult - stone had to be removed and fertile soil (seaweed, etc.) had to be brought to provide topsoil for crops. Bull McCabe, played by Richard Harris, illustrates the farmer's love of the land and his passion to keep it. ... Read More
Rating: - How importnat the Land is to an Irishman
My husband and I just returned from Ireland so we saw first hand how important the land is to the Irish. Richard Harris is Brillant in The Field. It really showed the struggles of a family in an Irish village.
Will make you think twice the next time you complain about how hard your life is.
Rating: - Fertile Ground Rich With Irish History
Based on the play by John B. Keane, Director Jim Sheridan presents a gripping tale that is rich with Irish tradition and history in the film THE FIELD. Legendary actor, Richard Harris (Bull McCabe) plays a stubborn farmer who treasures the land he has cultivated, and forcefully and close to manically guards the land when he finds out that an American or as Bull refers to him, "Yank", played by Tom Berenger, suddenly appears to buy the land from the original landowner, Maggie Butler (Frances Tomelty); all ... Read More
Rating:  - Love this movie and story
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and mine runs deep with this film. A long time fan of Richard Harris I feel his role in the movie was extraordinarily well performed. I found myself siding with McCabe. Seeing his dirty hands that worked the land, toiled over it, bleed into it and made it what it was. It was his from birth and then enters an American taking it away without a thought. To build something foreign on the land as well. McCabe loved the land, the American saw a profit. I was rivited from ... Read More
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