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An impoverished spinster with an outspoken dislike for the English, Katherine O'Hare runs a boarding house, yet is tolerated by the clique of snobbish wealthy widows. When Colin Clancy, the new dentist, becomes besotted with Katherine, Mrs. Doyle-Counihan warns her against past indiscretions.
"Widow's Peak" is another of those sly, witty, quietly ribald comedies that have been coming out of Ireland in the last few years. Set in the 1920s in a village named Kilshannon, it tells the story of a tightly knit group of widows and a stranger who shakes things up.
Widows' Peak: Directed by John Irvin. With Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar. In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows' Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows' Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.
Synopsis When the elegant Edwina Broome (Natasha Richardson) moves to Kilshannon, a small town in Ireland, she must contend with the local matriarchs, particularly the feisty Mrs. Doyle-Counihan...
13 maj 1994 · "Widows' Peak" is a bright, lighthearted comedy with the hint of a murder mystery tossed in. Like last year's female-ensemble hit "Enchanted April," it has an idyllic country setting, much...
WIDOW'S PEAK is a shoddy comedy cum drama about a glamorous English war widow (Richardson) who wreaks havoc in the humble hamlet of Kilshannon, a small Irish resort town in the mid 1920's. Her home is on a hill-- a minor mount called Widows' Peak, where all the residents are childless and manless.
