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Bookmark this pageThe Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005)
Director: Mary McGuckian
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Why do good actors pop up in bad movies? More perplexingly, why do so many good actors end up in the same bad movie? Mary McGuckian's torturously self-important historical drama gives ample time for thought. Did Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel want a free trip to Spain (where the movie was shot)? Were Kathy Bates and Gabriel Byrne desperate to work with De Niro and Keitel? Or perhaps they all felt a burning desire to contribute to a third forgettable adaptation (after those from 1929 and 1944) of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer Prize–winning novelAuthor: SG
Time Out New York website
Cast & crew
Director: Mary McGuckian
Cast: Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, F Murray Abraham, Geraldine Chaplin, Pilar López de Ayala, Emilie Dequenne full cast
Duration: 120 mins
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