Word: mcmullen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million (Living in Oblivion). They may be based on plays (Jeffrey, from Paul Rudnick's comedy) or novels (Nadja, from Bram Stoker's Dracula). The stars may be esteemed actors (Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects) or the director's girlfriend (Maxine Bahns in The Brothers McMullen). Some sing, the others don't. But all prove that films can be intimate as well as epic, that off-Hollywood is one destination for films of the next century...
...Half the stud heroes in action films have a surname beginning with Mc-, but there aren't many films about Irish Americans. Really Irish ones, with the guilt and the corned beef and the weekly Mass and the guilt. Edward Burns--writer, director and co-star of The Brothers McMullen--means to fill that gap with this frail fable of three Long Island siblings (Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst. They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy...
...concept of luxury seating just isn't funny in Quebec City. Or in New Jersey, where, last Wednesday, 25,000 Devils fans gathered outside the Brendan Byrne Arena both to celebrate their team's Stanley Cup victory and to implore owner John McMullen to leave the team be. (NASHVILLE DOESN'T NEED ANY MORE TOOTHLESS MEN, read one sign.) The show of support was nice. But nowadays it hardly seems to matter...
...BURNS, 27, is living the dream of every aspiring director from lower Manhattan to L.A. A film-school graduate and former production assistant on Entertainment Tonight (he quit last month), Burns spent five years sending his script for The Brothers McMullen to agents and distributors who would not return his phone calls. So he raised a few hundred thousand dollars, got nonprofessional actors to work for free and made the film himself. Last week the comedy about an Irish-American family won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. But for Burns the highlight of the event...
...McMullen said his group served in a home for the mentally retarded where they washed windows, raked, painted and laid down tiles for appreciative residents...