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Mood:
- EmotionalSentimentalTouchingCaptivatingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Couple RelationsFall in LoveForbidden LoveInfidelityLove AffairParents and ChildrenSocial DifferencesFamily Life more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodRomanceMini SeriesMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20s20th Century30s40s50s60s
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Audience:
- Girls' Night
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Thorn Birds, 1983
English
USA, Australia
Profile of The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and sentimental. The plot revolves around forbidden love, social differences, and infidelity. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, The Thorn Birds is a mini-series and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Thorn Birds takes place in the 1920s, in the 1930s, and in the 1950s. It is based on a book. It is well suited for a girls' night.
Summary of The Thorn Birds
Based on Colleen McCullough's book, this is the Emmy-winning story of forbidden love. Over the course of four decades, a friendship between a boy and a girl turns sultry and stormy as they mature into adults. The boy becomes a priest and the girl becomes a wife. While Father Ralph is a model of piety, Meggie Cleary is a mother with a family. Though they have separate devotions--God for Father Ralph, a husband for Meggie--their unspoken allegiance is to each other. Will the twosome's longings overpower their better judgment? Or will they give in to their forbidden passions and risk destroying the lives around them and quite possibly their own?
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Australia |
| Release date: | 27 March 1983 |
| Runtime: | 460 min |
| Seasons: | 1 |
Cast and Crew
as Ralph de Bricassart
as Meggie Cleary
as Mary Carson
as Fiona 'Fee' Cleary
as Rainer Hartheim
as Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
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Users Reviews
- 27.December.2010
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- by: Tina5
- Tina5 rated this movie
10/10Must See
