A Man of No Importance

1994

Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 1262 1.3K

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Plot summary

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

Director

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Suri Krishnamma

Top cast

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers as First Young Man
Michael Gambon Photo
Michael Gambon as Ivor J. Carney
Brendan Conroy Photo
Brendan Conroy as Rasher Flynn
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Albert Finney as Alfred Byrne
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873.85 MB
1280*792
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 4
1.58 GB
1440*890
English 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fiozinho 7 / 10

Albert Finney, Albert Finney!!

A slight film of forbidden love in early sixties Dublin. There is some great period detail and some lovely funny and touching and dark scenes, but the film IS Albert Finney - a momentous performance as a gay man desperate to consummate his passion for a man he knows he cannot have, and desperate also to create beautiful things in a grey, humdrum world which just doesn't understand him. Finney is absolutely fantastic.
Reviewed by wisewebwoman 7 / 10

Gentle movie going nowhere...

Reviewed by jakob1 8 / 10

Nice gentle film

Starring Albert Finney as a deeply closeted gay man who is a bus conductor in 1960s Dublin as he endeavours direct a production of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome".It boasts a great supporting cast of Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Tara Fitzgerald and Patrick Malahide.
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