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Into the West

Play trailer Poster for Into the West PG 1992 1h 42m Kids & Family Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
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75% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 79% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
Impoverished in Dublin, youngsters Ossie and Tito live with their widowed father, who drowns his grief in drink. Their grim existence is uplifted by the arrival of their itinerant grandfather, who has brought with him a magical horse from legend -- Tir na nOg. But when crooked cops discover the prized animal, they commandeer it, intending to sell it as a racing horse. Furious, the boys resolve to rescue the mythical creature.
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Adam Mars-Jones Independent (UK) Nov 15, 2017
There must have been oofle-dust around in sackfuls to persuade Barkin to lend her aura to a project that asks so little of her. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jan 1, 2000
3.5/4
The bare story itself could be simplistic and silly: Cops chasing a couple of kids on a horse. But when relationships are involved, and social realities, and a certain level of magical realism, then the story grows and deepens until it really involves us. Go to Full Review
Vanessa Letts The Spectator Jul 25, 2018
The pathos is powerful too, and one wonders why cinema managers don't sell packets of handkerchiefs along-side all the chocolate and ice-creams. Go to Full Review
Malcolm L. Johnson Hartford Courant Apr 25, 2018
Although it may not offer sufficient action and bratty humor for a contemporary tyke, this warm and moving story of two young brothers and a magical white horse will satisfy the same sort of parent-child combinations as The Secret Garden. Go to Full Review
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 20, 2005
2/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 14, 2005
B-
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Poe L Feb 2, 2019 Nothing like it. Rains charm. See more
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Mike Newell

Director

Gabriel Byrne

Papa Reilly

Colm Meaney

Barreller

Ellen Barkin

Kathleen

Ciaran Fitzgerald

Ossie

Ruaidhri Conroy

Tito

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Into the West

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Synopsis Impoverished in Dublin, youngsters Ossie and Tito live with their widowed father, who drowns his grief in drink. Their grim existence is uplifted by the arrival of their itinerant grandfather, who has brought with him a magical horse from legend -- Tir na nOg. But when crooked cops discover the prized animal, they commandeer it, intending to sell it as a racing horse. Furious, the boys resolve to rescue the mythical creature.
Director
Mike Newell
Producer
Jonathan Cavendish, Tim Palmer
Screenwriter
Jim Sheridan
Distributor
Miramax Films
Production Co
Parallel Films, Channel Four Films
Rating
PG
Genre
Kids & Family, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 25, 1992, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.7M
Runtime
1h 42m
Sound Mix
Surround
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