The Bridge of San Luis Rey

I'm confused. I'm missing something here? Can someone explian this to me? These reviews aren't talking about the movie. The television is on, but nobody is in the room. I saw the television on so I came in, but nobody is... Full review

I watched this for school and had the most horrid time. I would never recommend this movie to my friends. It just follows the musings of a monk who wonders why he didn't fall, I say it was because he was... Full review

This is not as expected since the real Peru of the XVII century was even richer and full of action as the most important port of the pacific but the movie at least shows an effort to get close to that... Full review

With such a superb and experienced cast, one would expect a film that, if nothing else, offered well-acted and full-bodied characterizations. Unfortunately, the director at the helm of this project, Ms. Mary McGuckian, has dampened every aspect of this picture's possibilities,... Full review

A classic tale told beautifully. Kathy Bates will break your heart. The story leaves you wondering. Will make you want to read the novel.... Full review

This film, like the book will escape most ordinary viewers and critics who are used to modern screenplays with hero's and villians - the stuff of cartoons. The book and this film, very beautifully done, is nothing less than the explanation... Full review

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a film that held a minor theatrical release in 2005, spotlights an all star cast including Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham, Roberto DeNiro and Gabriel Byrne. Based on the novel by Thornton Wilder, it is... Full review

I had no idea what was going on and found myself going to the restroom twice to play games on my cell phone.... Full review

None of the reviewers at this site or elsewhere have noted that there are four, not three, filmed versions of this unique and haunting novel.The fourth appeared on American television between October,l957,and January,l958. It was probably a Hallmark production ,obviously has... Full review

The movie focuses a priest Brother Juniper(Gabriel Byrne)investigates the noted highly rope bridge collapse in Lima(Peru).It left five travellers people fall into deep and die.The Franciscano priest tries to discover if was a divine cause for the fateful disaster.He'll survey the... Full review

But "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is content simply to lie there, struggling to breathe under a ton of costumes.....Dragged down by a stuffy screenplay clotted with generic period oratory, overdressed to the point.... ... Full Review

But the movie offers only the spectacle of A-list actors floundering with a prolix screenplay.....Not terrible enough to warrant its dump job, The Bridge of San Luis Rey is an honorable but dull attempt to translate a neglected literary source to the screen..... ... Full Review

Dragged down by a stuffy screenplay clotted with generic period oratory, overdressed to the point that the actors seem physically impeded by their ornate costumes, and hopelessly muddled in its storytelling, the movie is edited with a haphazardness that leaves many dots unconnected. ... Full Review

The cinematography is notable (filmed in Spain... Mary McGuckian gets credit for the screenplay as well as the directing, though "blame" may be more appropriate. Pilar Lopez de Ayala is a delightful addition. ... Full Review

The Bridge Of San Luis Rey is a sweeping costume epic with a surprising ensemble cast. In a summer season full of flying superheroes and remade TV shows from someone else's youth, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey is a welcome alternative. ... Full Review

Two-time Academy Award® -winner Robert De Niro ( Wag the Dog, 15 Minutes ) stars in the charged drama The Bridge of San Luis Rey, available on DVD on October 11, 2005, from New Line Home Entertainment. ... Full Article

One glance at the cast assembled for The Bridge of San Luis Rey , this being the third filmed adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (the other two were in 1944 and 1929), and you think, "Wow, it'd take... ... Full Article

"Many who have spent a lifetime in passion can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday." This is one of the masterful quotes that come from Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The... ... Full Article

From the backstreet brothels and theatres of 18th century Lima to the majestic courts of Spain; from the palaces of Peruvian Archbishops to the Inquistadorial missions from Madrid; and from the sanctuary of Inca shrines high up among Andean villages... ... Full Article

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With its literary pedigree and dogged high-mindedness, this full-dress costume drama set in Peru in the early 18th century may be the opposite of trash, but it is something just as disposable: dead literary meat. Dragged down by a stuffy ... Full Article