Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/28/2000(USA)
Release Date: 09/12/2000
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class Anglo-Irish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation's increasingly vocal wishes Irish Catholic majority. Sir Richard Naylor (
Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Myra (
Maggie Smith) are wealthy members of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy who slowly realize the life they've known in County Cork is coming to an end. Living with the Naylors are their financially-embarrassed friends Hugo and Francie Montmorency (
Lambert Wilson and
Jane Birkin); Marda Norton (
Fiona Shaw), another friend who was one involved with Hugo; their nephew Laurence (
Jonathan Slinger), a student at Oxford; and their niece Lois (
Keeley Hawes). Lois is infatuated with Gerald (
David Tennat), a British officer helping to mind the Naylors' property, though Myra believes he's beneath Lois' station; however, she's also keenly attracted to Connolly (
Gary Lydon), an IRA soldier who is hiding in a mill on the estate.
The Last September was based on the novel by
Elizabeth Bowen.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
