Título: The Playboys
Año: 1992
País: Irlanda
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Productor: William P. Cartlidge
Elenco:
Albert Finney
Aidan Quinn
Robin Wright
Milo O'Shea
Alan Devlin
Guión: Shane Connaughton
Música: Jean-Claude Petit
Fotografía:Jack Conroy
Duración: 117 min.
Sinopsis:
Año 1957. En una pequeña población en la frontera irlandesa, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright Penn) es una joven muchacha de fuerte carácter que escandaliza a un pequeño pueblo irlandés en los años cincuenta cuando decide tener a un bebé sin estar casada y sin querer revelar el nombre del padre. Tara es de una belleza perturbadora, y muchos hombres del pueblo desearían casarse con ella. La llegada de un grupo de actores irlandeses al pueblo produce un revuelo importante entre los vecinos, revuelo que aumenta cuando Tara se enamora de uno de los "playboys"... (FILMAFFINITY)
Movie Review
The Playboys (1992)
Review/Film; Irish Town Goes Wild In All the Irish Ways
By JANET MASLIN
Published: April 22, 1992
"A woman, a baby and a mystery man for a father," as one villager puts it: those are the elements that drive a small Irish town to distraction. The year is 1957 and the woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright), is uncommonly strong and beautiful by the standard of that time or any other. At the start of "The Playboys," a lovely and enveloping new film about Tara and her neighbors, Tara gives birth to an illegitimate son. The townspeople's response is for the most part narrow-minded and petty, but "The Playboys" is anything but small.
Enchanting and lyrical, superbly picturesque, "The Playboys" (which opens today) is another reminder that Irish cinema is suddenly enjoying something of a golden age. The screenwriter Shane Connaughton, an Oscar nominee for "My Left Foot," comes from the tiny, quaint village where the film was made, Redhills in County Cavan, and has summoned up the villagers' lives with sly and affectionate attention to detail. From the too inquisitive priest to the watchful children, from Irish Republican Army smugglers to farmers desperately concerned about sick cattle, the residents and their troubles, loves and jealousies are duly noted. All these ingredients serve to bear out one character's haunting thought that "if the passion of the people could be bottled, we could all of us sail to the moon."
Drawing upon childhood memories, Mr. Connaughton (who wrote the screenplay with Kerry Crabbe) has also introduced a colorful band of outsiders: the Playboys, a flea-bitten theatrical troupe visiting town for a single week and temporarily breathing new fun and promise into this remote place. Among the Playboys is Tom (Aidan Quinn), a dashing actor who immediately sets his sights on Tara and would have better luck with her were it not for Tara's fiercely independent streak. Another obstacle to romance exists in the form of Sgt. Brendan Hegarty (Albert Finney), the local constable, who devotes more than reasonable attention to Tara. The dangerous, glowering policeman clings desperately to his equilibrium, but in Tara's presence he becomes quite mad with love.
As directed by Gillies Mackinnon, "The Playboys" unfolds at a leisurely pace and weaves its magic out of gentle touches rather than grand passions. Much of the enjoyment comes from simply observing a fine cast in a beautiful setting. The film's principal surprise is Ms. Wright, previously most memorable (in "The Princess Bride" and "State of Grace") for her delicate looks but this time creating an impression of great sturdiness and backbone. Since much of the plot revolves around men vying for Tara's attention, the performance needs to justify their intense interest. Ms. Wright's does that easily.
Mr. Finney, looking puffy and ravaged in the role of a man who has lost much of himself to drink (and whose obsessive interest in Tara somehow offers him the chance of redemption), brings a furious, buried intensity to Hegarty's longing. The role is subtle and mysterious, and Mr. Finney plays it with uncommon grace. Mr. Quinn, in the more conventional role of a brash young charmer, is every bit as dashing as the material requires him to be, even when delivering such fanciful outbursts as "Ah, Freddie, we're only dreamin'!" Milo O'Shea, as Freddie, the theatrical impresario, very nearly steals the film in a smallish role.
As the principal Playboy, Mr. O'Shea's Freddie Fitzgerald is often seen in direct opposition to Father Malone (Alan Devlin), the priest encouraging Tara to confess and repent her sins. In Father Malone's eyes, the actors' spirited vaudeville is as much an affront to decency as Tara is. The film, accepting these modest polarities among country folk circa 1957 (and acknowledging, with the arrival of rock-and-roll and television in town, that the world will soon change drastically), has great fun with the actors' relatively innocent sense of mischief.
Whether stealing chickens or stealing ideas, the Playboys remain cheerfully resourceful at all times. A viewing of "Gone With the Wind" in the town's movie theater abruptly sends Freddie into blackface and a dress (since he is too old to play Rhett Butler) for that evening's performance, in which the burning of Atlanta is staged as a sort of musical comedy number. Handsome Tom lands the starring role, even though he has a notoriously hard time remembering his lines. "To be quite honest, honey, I don't give a tuppenny damn," he says during the performance's climactic scene.
The rest of the time, "The Playboys" gets things right. The Playboys Directed by Gillies Mackinnon; written by Shane Connaughton and Kerry Crabbe; director of photography, Jack Conroy; edited by Humphery Dixon; production designer, Andy Harris; produced by William P. Cartlidge and Simon Perry; released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. Running time: 114 minutes. This film has no rating. Hegarty . . . Albert Finney Tom . . . Aidan Quinn Tara . . . Robin Wright Freddie . . . Milo O'Shea Malone . . . Alan Devlin Brigid . . . Niamh Cusack Cassidy . . . Ian McElhinney Rachel . . . Stella McCusker Denzil . . . Niall Buggy Vonnie . . . Anna Livia Ryan Mick . . . Adrian Dunbar Ryan (John Joe) . . . Lorcan Cranitch
Pelicula:
Hay dos enlaces, el primero es MKV, y contiene la pista de audio original en ingles y subtitulos en cuatro idomas, incluyendo español.
The Playboys (1992) DVDRip x264.mkv 
La segunda, es la conversión a avi que he hecho.
The Playboys (1992) DVDRip x264.bak.mp4 El problema no ha sido ese sino con los subtítulos, la extracción sin problemas, pero una vez convertidos a srt hay una linea, la 295 que desaparece y hace perder la sincronizacion al resto la película, he intentado varias cosas con el subtitle workshop, pero no me ha sido posible sincronizarlos correctamente sin esa línea y aún agregandola el resultado es peor aún. Si alguien se anima, aquí los tengo.
Ademas con el GSpot no se pueden obtener datos tecnicos de un mkv, pero la calidad es buena como se verá en las capturas:
The Playboys
(director: Gillies Mackinnon; 1992)
by Michael Sragow
Mackinnon, Gillies; “The Playboys”
This absorbing, uneven romantic comedy-drama, set in a small Irish town in 1957, takes its name from a travelling troupe. The heroine is an unwed mother named Tara (Robin Wright). She challenges every male authority figure in town and drives all the men wild—especially the violent, alcoholic constable, Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney), who seethes when he sees her with her actor lover Tom (Aidan Quinn). The screenwriters, Shane Connaughton (who co-wrote “My Left Foot”) and Kerry Crabbe, are full of ideas and observations about orthodox religion, claustrophobic village mores, the craziness of life in a divided country, and the last gasp of strolling players before TV’s ascendancy. Wright and Quinn are well matched, and the director, Gillies MacKinnon, and his cinematographer, Jack Conroy, provide images that sparkle with amorous possibilities. But the filmmakers don’t funnel their panoply of themes gracefully into Tara’s story. Her affair with Tom comes off as a foil to Finney’s passionate portrait of stewed wrath and despair. He endows a clenched, masochistic character with such scale and force that he takes over the movie.
