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(More customer reviews)UPDATE: The PAL/Region 2 "Hear My Song" has been released in the UK, so look at my comment on this review, and UNFORTUNATELY it is a rehash of the US version, omitting the original opening scene. I was so Brassed Off that I sent it back!! And why does Amazon persist in listing the cast in order of appearance? The first 8 cast members listed AREN'T IN THE US VERSION!! AmazonUK has the cast listed correctly!!
Hear My Song's plot has features loosely based on the true career of the Irish singer, tenor Josef Locke. Jo Locke was Irish, but is not the diddly diddly Irish Rovers/Suffering Gaels type. His career filled music halls and ornate Victorian pubs and seaside resorts, and as one of Mickey O'Neill's staff says "There won't be a dry seat in the house." There are still websites devoted to the man and his music. This is a well-crafted movie, with great photography, and a lush soundtrack filled with Jo Locke ballads(sung by Vernon Midgely) and more traditional tunes by the band "Patrick Street". Ned Beatty gives a nicely subdued performance, his lipsynching of Locke's(Midgely) music is well done, and unlike most American actors, his "Irish" accent comes across well. Adrian Dunbar is a gem as impresario Mickey O'Neill, Tara Fitzgerald is very fetching as Nancy, Mickey's love interest, and one of my favorites, James Nesbitt, is Mickey O'Neill's oldest friend, Fintan. Normally, I'd love to see Tara Fitzgerald naked, but the one scene here is out of place. That is one of two bones I'll pick with Hear My Song. The other is that in the credits, roles are listed for "Young Mickey", "Young Fintan", and "Mickey's Mum". These roles never crossed the Atlantic, because there are no scenes with these characters. HEAR MY SONG was listed in early '06 as due to be released on DVD in November '06....What is up with that, when any crap Fox TV series or P Hilton merde comes out on DVD but a GREAT flick like this is unavailable. And why does Amazon list the leading characters as Brian Flanagan, Constance Cowley, et al? (Since I originally posted this review, I went to Britain & picked up a copy of Hear My Song in PAL format on EbayUK. The omitted part deals with Mickey, Mickey's Mum, & Mickey's problems with love. A tiny piece that probably cost more to delete than to keep in, but the new DVD release from the UK also omits the original opening scene. MERDE!!!) More's the pity, because whenever Hear My Song ends, I wish it were just a wee bit longer, like a pint of Guinness that's a few drams short. I can hardly wait for it to be released on DVD here in the colonies, if for no other reason than both of my VHS copies are rather tired.
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