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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780779252121
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0779252128
Label: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Manufacturer: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 02, 2001
Running Time: 208 minutes
Sales Rank: 90837
Studio: BFS Entertainment Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This fascinating adaptation of J.G. Farrell's novel is both a compelling drama and an illuminating examination of Ireland's troubled history. When Major Brendan Archer returns from the trenches of World War I to his fiancée in Ireland, he quickly becomes involved in familial and political turmoil.
The shell-shocked major (played with wounded vulnerability by Ian Charleson) is engaged to Angela Spencer, who lives with her family in the decaying Majestic Hotel. Angela's eccentric father wants to return the hotel to its former glory because he believes that this will somehow subdue the nationalist movement that threatens his privileged position. Meanwhile, changed utterly by his wartime experiences, Major Archer begins to fall for his fiancée's friend Sarah, a passionate nationalist.
The Majestic Hotel and its inhabitants are perfect symbols of crumbling English power, and the central love story brings a personal dimension to the political struggle. Troubles does a wonderful job of retaining the complexity of Farrell's novel, subtly shifting from comedy to tragedy, and the result is a deeply satisfying film. --Simon Leake
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Troubles
One star is too high to rate this film. I'd give it zero stars. This is a very slow moving, boring, turgid film. The setting is during the 1920's in a dilapidated old hotel, far past it's prime. Several scenes are truly repulsive - many rooms of the hotel are full of swarms of wild cats, there are rotting body parts full of maggots found in the hotel rooms and the permanent residents of the hotel are comprised of a band of domineering, bossy old biddies. The other hotel residents are in wheelchairs, ... Read More
Rating:  - The Major's Story
Troubles is a moving, extended meditation on the British presence in Ireland, in the years just prior to that country's independence in 1922. Part comedy, part tragedy, this beautifully filmed drama follows a shell-shocked Major (Ian Charleson) from the trenches of WWI to a crumbling hotel situated in the Irish countryside. In the wake of his betrothed's sudden death, the Major stays on, beguiled by the hotel's bombastic owner, Edward Spencer (Ian Richardson). Soon adopted by an eccentric gathering of staff ... Read More
Rating: - The Major's Story
Troubles is a moving, extended meditation on the British presence in Ireland, in the years just prior to that country's independence in 1922. Part comedy, part tragedy, this beautifully filmed drama follows a shell-shocked Major (Ian Charleson) from the trenches of WWI to a crumbling hotel situated in the Irish countryside. In the wake of his betrothed's sudden death, the Major stays on, beguiled by the hotel's bombastic owner, Edward Spencer (Ian Richardson). Adopted by the eccentric gathering of staff and ... Read More
Rating:  - An Unusual, Symbolic Film about Ireland's Troubles
Troubles is a quirky 1989 British film set in Ireland during the tumultuous time after the Easter Rebellion when Ireland as a whole was struggling for independence from Great Britain. The film stars Ian Richardson (House of Cards) and Ian Charleson and opens in 1919 with Major Archer (Charleson), an Englishman, embarking on a trip to Ireland to visit his fiancee, Angela Spencer (Susannah Harker--Jane from Pride and Prejudice), who is also British. Angela lives with her siblings and eccentric father, Edward ... Read More
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