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The Field
From Sovereign Pictures · Granada Television · Noel Pearson
It Owns Him...It Possesses Him...And It Could Even Destroy Him
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"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
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Directed by Jim Sheridan
Richard Harris
John Hurt
Sean Bean
Frances Tomelty
Brenda Fricker
Ruth McCabe
Brendan Gleeson
Tom Berenger
Sean McGinley
Jer O'Leary
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kevin2019Nov 6, 2026
"The Field" is a compelling drama and Ireland looks gloriously wild and rugged with some beautiful locations which are extremely well used. The film is structured in a reasonably straight forward fashion, but the characterizations are brilliantly authentic and richly layered and the conflicts and the escalation of hostilities between "Bull" McCabe - a powerful Richard Harris - and The American has been well engineered and memorably examined throughout. These character motivat… Read more
ions are central to the entire film and McCabe is a pathetic sort of man by the end. He has managed to destroy himself by trying to protect the field without even realising that in his own way he is just as corrupt as those people he is trying to protect the field from. He is The American only in more primitive guise and when pushed to the edge it is indeed tragic what some people will do.