The guests dance, Mary Jane performs a virtuosic piece on the piano, and a guest named Mr.

Malins berates him for failing to meet her for tea earlier. Brown, Freddy goes to talk to his mother, who lives in Scotland with her daughter, and Mrs. Kate is worried that Freddy Malins will show up drunk, and when he does, Gabriel promptly escorts the man to the restroom to sober him up. Three of Mary Jane's music students, Miss O'Callaghan, Miss Furlong, and Miss Higgins, enter, accompanied by the young bachelors Joseph Kerrigan and Raymond Bergin, who Miss Furlong formally introduces to Kate and her frail older sister, Julia.ĭan Brown, the only Protestant invited to the party, arrives next, followed by Kate's favorite nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife Gretta.

Horse-drawn carriages arrive with guests on the snowy night. On January 6, 1904, spinster sisters Kate and Julia Morkan and their unmarried niece, Mary Jane, host their annual Epiphany dinner party at their townhouse in Dublin. John Huston posthumously won the award for Best Director at the 3rd Independent Spirit Awards, and Anjelica Huston won the award for Best Supporting Female at the same ceremony. The ensemble cast also includes Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Seán McClory, Frank Patterson, and Colm Meaney.Īt the 60th Academy Awards, Tony Huston was nominated for the award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Dorothy Jeakins was nominated for Best Costume Design for their work on the film. The story focuses on the academic Gabriel Conroy ( Donal McCann) and his discovery of his wife Gretta's (Anjelica Huston) memories of a deceased lover. The film takes place in Dublin in 1904 at an Epiphany party hosted by two sisters and their niece. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany, the film was Huston's last as director, and it was released several months after his death. It is an adaptation of the short story of the same name by James Joyce, which was first published in 1914 as the last story in Dubliners. The Dead is a 1987 drama film directed by John Huston, written by his son Tony Huston, and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston.

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