Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.
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- 4 wins & 1 nomination
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- TriviaWhen Robert Redford was at the Entertainment Tonight studios for an interview, Edward Burns gave him a tape of this film in a an elevator and begged him to watch it. Redford said that Burns looked like a panhandler. "I get that all the time, but I thought, what the hell, that's what it's all about." He watched it, liked it, and the film went on to win at Sundance. The showing also led to a distribution deal, which included an additional $200,000 for post production work and to get the rights for the Sarah McLachlan song "I Will Remember You", which was added over the closing credits.
- GoofsAt the end of the movie, the two main characters are on the sidewalk talking, and a New York trash can jumps back and forth all around them between shots.
- Quotes
Barry: [holds up a banana] Man is like a banana. Strong and firm, bright and phallic, and he's protected by his all-important shield. But, when a woman comes along, you know, she sees this bright phallic beast and she wants it. So, she starts peeling away your all-important shield.
[peels the banana]
Barry: First, she wants to see your romantic side, then she wants to see your passionate side, finally she wants to see your soft, caring, feminine side. She keeps peeling and peeling until you're left there buck naked, totally exposed with your balls blowing in the wind. And that's when she gets her knife, and she cuts away your manhood piece by piece until she's having your cock in her corn flakes.
- SoundtracksI Will Remember You
Written by Sarah McLachlan, Seamus Egan and Dave Merenda
Performed by Sarah McLachlan
In THE BROTHERS McMULLEN we have MARTY compounded by three--namely, the Irish brothers on Long Island who seem to indulge in endless dialog about life, love and the pursuit of happiness while sipping their favorite beers, each involved in a troublesome relationship that has them questioning their inner conflicts born by a Catholic conscience.
It's not exactly up to the Woody Allen standard of such tales, but the dialog is fresh enough and natural, the modest settings are appropriate for the story and the jaunty Irish music on the soundtrack does its job.
Nothing complex here. Just a warm, engaging, occasionally funny tale of average guys struggling with their fixed ideas of moral values, each unable to come to terms with inner conflicts--and two of them simply unable to make commitments to the women they love.
The film is really carried by the three brothers: EDWARD BURNS as the one least able to commit, and JACK MULCAHY and MIKE McGLONE as his troubled siblings.
Summing up: Nothing really special, but it did win a couple of awards at film festivals.
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- Also known as
- Los hermanos McMullen
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Box office
- Budget
- $238,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,426,506
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $167,815
- Aug 13, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $10,426,506