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The Field
1990

He'll let no outsider take it away

A gut-wrenching, wildly passionate drama, THE FIELD is set in rural Ireland during the 1930s and explores the secrecy, violence and obsessive love for the land particular to small Irish agrarian communities.

Richard Harris plays Bull McCabe, a farmer determined to purchase the field he has tended for years when the widow who owns it puts it up for auction. None of the villagers try to oppose the fearsome McCabe, but a smooth-talking young Irish American businessman (Tom Berenger) attempts to outbid him, shocking the entire village and igniting a tense battle between the two men which builds toward deadly consequences and threatens to reveal the McCabe family's dark, painful secret - one that's kept Bull's wife (Brenda Fricker) from talking to him for 18 years. Director Jim Sheridan coaxes brilliant performances from the cast, most notably Berenger, John Hurt as a local simpleton in a brilliant and devastating characterization, and Harris, who earned an Oscar nomination for his astonishing portrayal of McCabe, elevating THE FIELD into the league of Shakespearean tragedy.