| Far and Away | | Cast : | Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman | | Director : | Ron Howard | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | May 22, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | June 03, 2003 | | Language : | Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Far and Away - Charming! | Content
 | The movie is excellent. I was hoping to find the directors cut with additional footage, but the regular DVD is excellent as well. Not many additional features, but the movie is delightful and, although slightly longer then some, holds the viewers interest. Minor amounts of nudity, some very graphic fist fighting, but not excessive and always appropriate to the plot. One of Ron Howard's best films. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 01, 2005 | | Summary | The perfect romantic epic!!! | Content
| I can't believe how underrated this movie is! I never saw it because I had never really heard much about it, but when I finally saw it, I absolutely loved it, along with my whole family! I'm 20 year old girl, so obviously this is my kind of movie, but my brother loved it too because the script is so clever! This movie is hilarious, touching, incredibly romantic, and so beautiful!! The cinematography is astounding, the sets and the costumes are wonderful, and Tom and Nicole are perfect together. They have such great chemistry on screen! I have watched this movie again and again and it is one of my all-time favorites. I highly recommend this film! This is an epic film that should not have been overlooked!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 25, 2005 | | Summary | so-so romantic melodrama | Content
| If you loved the dialogue and romance of "Titanic" you're bound to love "Far and Away." They are very similar films -- formulaic, predictable melodrama about a poor boy and a rich girl who have a great adventure together. The endings are different, granted, but there are several similarities.
Ron Howard does a decent job of capturing a variety of locales and historical situations. However there are huge plot holes and the script is rife with cliches and stereotypes.
In the end, I don't think Cruise and pull it off. His accent is decent and not nearly as inconsistent as Kostner's, but there's not much depth to his character. The supporting cast is good, but they aren't given much to work with.
Decent historical melodrama, but there are more gripping and convincing films out there. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 27, 2005 | | Summary | Ron Howard's "Wondrous epic" | Content
| Don't listen to the haters who call this truly "wondrous" film anything less than a masterpiece. Those who claim FAR AND AWAY has no plot are the same who would likely say the same of MOULIN ROUGE. It seems that a great love story these days is no longer enough, but perhaps only for those who don't really know what love is.
FAR AND AWAY has been my favorite film since I was about 10 or 11 and my parents rented the film. I'm 20 now and I recently saw the film again--it is as wondrous and moving and sweet and beautiful as it ever was. It is a film grand in scope. It is a great glimpse at how talented Nicole Kidman was, even then. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 11, 2004 | | Summary | No day, no night ,no moment can hold them back from trying | Content
| Then-husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman headlined this 1992 Ron Howard release. Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) is the headstrong brother of a family of tenant farmers, who finds himself on the boat to America after he originally went to his landlord's mannor to avenge his father's death.
Donnelly does not initially realize that Mr. Christie is actually a likeable (if absent minded) fellow, and it is his family associates who are responsible for the murder and the home burning. These Protestants look down upon the Catholic Donnellys (among many other families) as being beneath them.
While there, he meets their daughter Shannon, a firebrand self-described modern woman who would do ANYTHING to avoid ending up like her mother's stuffy Victorian friends. From ridding fast to wearing free clothes, Shannon wants much more out of life than what she originally had. When she teams up with Joseph, she gets it.
After her spoons are convieniently stolen upon arrival in America, Shannon comes to the painful realization that she does not know what to do. She is now in the position of having to learn survival skills from Joseph (who poses as her brother) if she is going to make it out to Oklahoma.
Sure, improbabilities abound in this film (Cruise hangs out with brothel girls in an age before the ready availability of condoms, but never gets venereal disease, Shannon and her family are magically reunited in Boston even after she wanted nothing to do with them and did not appear to know their new address, and Mr. Christie himself has no problems pulling his own weight in America while the rest of his family had not known how to do these things).
An excellent camera panning, a generally good script, and the hit 'book of days' by Enya easily compensate for any flaws. You become so involved in this film that the screenplay length ultimately does not matter. Well-crafted suprises maintain interest in the entire story.
Cruise and Kidman's off-screen romance is by now a distant memory, but this film will keep your own passions burning brightly. |
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