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The Dawning (1993)

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Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Historical; With: Anthony Hopkins and Rebecca Pidgeon

By Lawrence O'Toole

Made in 1988 before Anthony Hopkins won his Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs and never released theatrically, this tragic tale of an IRA man and a young woman (Rebecca Pidgeon) in Ireland in 1920 clearly has been released to capitalize on Hopkins' current status. It's not a major performance, but a sturdy one (the role is underwritten), and ingenue Pidgeon is wonderful as the impulsive and curious colleen who thinks Hopkins may be her father. The Dawning, though compelling, is often a little too genteel, lacking the fire the story's tragic dimensions demand. B

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Posted Mar 19, 1993

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