Starring: Barbara Jefford, Milo O'shea, Maurice Roeves, T. P. McKenna, Martin Dempsey Directed by: Joseph Strick Rating: 15 Duration: 120 mins
Overview: Based on James Joyce's 1922 masterpiece, Leopold Bloom is Joyce's Jewish protagonist. Wandering the Dublin streets, he thinks about his dead son, his cockolding wife, Molly, and his own impotence. During his travels he encounters a one-eyed man who taunts him with anti-Semitic remarks and a young student and poet, Stephen Dedalus. He and Dedalus go to a brothel where Bloom is beset by frightening fantasies. Afterwards the two men sit up all night talking at Bloom's house. When Dedalus leaves, Molly lies awake in bed thinking about her present and past loves, and possibility of an affair with Dedalus...
Quotes:
"Strick somehow succeeds in conveying the wavering shape of the fantasy-world in which the Joycean figures move" - The Sunday Times
Awards + Nominations:
Academy Award Nomination - Best (adapted) Screenplay
Special Features:
Memoir on Ulysses by Jospeh Strick Sound: Dolby Stereo Black and White Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1
