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Current status - Released
Total runtime - 101 mins.
Release date - 15-03-2019
Release year - 2019
Genres - Western
Overall ratings and scores for Never Grow Old:
Happiness Score - 6.1/10, World Popularity Score - 9.442/100, IMDB Score - 6.0, Metascore - 65, Internet Movie Database - 6.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes - 90%, Metacritic - 65/100, .
Never Grow Old movie has Total Global Votes - 179, Total IMD Votes - 4,174
Never Grow Old Movie Introduction: Movie Never Grow Old, release year 2019 is written by Ivan Kavanagh and directed by Ivan Kavanagh. The leading star-cast in this movie are Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Déborah François along with the other stars and crew members.
Trailers, Clips, Featurettes and Behind the Scenes
Movie overview and plot by Anagha Shashank
Movie in-short: An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
Movie story-line: An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.
Movie synopsis: A once-peaceful frontier town becomes a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert and his gang arrive and begin gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face as the death toll continues to rise.
Highlights - Never Grow Old (2019)
Total budget - $12,000,000.00
Total revenue - $106,796.00
Produced by -
Produced in - BelgiumFranceIrelandLuxembourg
Available languages - English (English), Italian (Italiano),
Homepage URL - http://rippleworld.com/index.php?pg=viewproject&project_id=1009
Awards won / Nominations - 3 wins & 3 nominations
Certificate(s) - US : R KR : 15 BR : 16 DE : 16
Lead Actors, Writer(s), Director(s) of Never Grow Old (2019)
Lead Actors - Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Déborah François
Writer(s) - Ivan Kavanagh
Director(s) - Ivan Kavanagh
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) about Never Grow Old (2019)
What is the release date of Never Grow Old (2019)?
Release date of Never Grow Old (2019) is 15-03-2019.
What is the total runtime of Never Grow Old (2019) in minutes?
Total runtime of Never Grow Old (2019) in minutes is 100 min.
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The budget consumed to produce Never Grow Old (2019) movie is around $12,000,000.00.
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Expected revenue from movie movie Never Grow Old (2019) is around $106,796.00.
What is the pupularity of Never Grow Old (2019)?
Worldwide pupularity of Never Grow Old (2019) movie is 9.442%.
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Production company of film Never Grow Old (2019) is/are .
Which country the film Never Grow Old (2019) is produced in?
Film production country for the film Never Grow Old (2019) is Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, .
Which language the film Never Grow Old (2019) is produced in?
Film Never Grow Old (2019) is produced in English (English), Italian (Italiano), language(s).
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Movie Never Grow Old (2019) is categorized under Drama, Western genre(s).
Who are the lead actors of the film Never Grow Old (2019)?
Lead actors of the film Never Grow Old (2019) are Emile Hirsch, John Cusack, Déborah François.
Who is the writer of the film Never Grow Old (2019)?
The writer(s) of the film Never Grow Old (2019) is/are Ivan Kavanagh.
Who is the director of the film Never Grow Old (2019)?
The director(s) of the film Never Grow Old (2019) is/are Ivan Kavanagh.
Which awards, nominations and recognitions are won by Never Grow Old (2019) movie?
Movie Never Grow Old (2019) has 3 wins & 3 nominations awards and nomination in it's profile.
What is the story of Never Grow Old (2019) in-short?
Short plot of movie Never Grow Old (2019): An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises..
What is the full story of Never Grow Old (2019) movie?
Full plot of movie Never Grow Old (2019): A once-peaceful frontier town becomes a den of vice after vicious outlaw Dutch Albert and his gang arrive and begin gunning down their opposition. Undertaker Patrick Tate must now choose between the blood money he makes burying the murderers' victims and the threats he and his family face as the death toll continues to rise..
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You can find the full details of movie Never Grow Old (2019) at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158939
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List of full Starcast and crew members of Never Grow Old (2019)
Full Starcast:
Name: Emile Hirsch
Character: Patrick Tate
Name: John Cusack
Character: Christopher 'Dutch' Albert
Name: Déborah François
Character: Audrey Tate
Name: Danny Webb
Character: Preacher Pike
Name: Tim Ahern
Character: Sheriff Parker
Name: Blake Berris
Character: Fred
Name: Sam Louwyck
Character: Dumb Dumb
Name: Camille Pistone
Character: Sicily
Name: Anne Coesens
Character: Mrs. Crabtree
Name: Manon Capelle
Character: Emily Crabtree
Name: Molly McCann
Character: Emma Tate
Name: Quinn Topper Marcus
Character: Thomas Tate
Name: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Character: Maria Pike
Name: Paul Reid
Character: Ed
Name: Nickel Bösenberg
Character: Jim Emmet
Name: Sean Gormley
Character: Pete
Name: Steve Karier
Character: Schuster
Name: Leila Schaus
Character: Elsa
Name: Paul Ronan
Character: Bill Crabtree
Name: Dick O'Hary
Character: Cherokee Thompson
Name: Peter Newington
Character: Anthony Peale
Name: Liz McMullen
Character: Dorothy Peale
Name: Eloise Kerrin-Wright
Character: Peale Child
Name: Jean-François Wolff
Character: Prospector
Name: Julie Kieffer
Character: Rosie
Name: Claire Johnston
Character: Widow of Elderly Man
Name: Nicolas de Lavergne
Character: Pete's Father (uncredited)
Name: Éric Gigout
Character: Mourning Man (uncredited)
Crew Members:
Name: Gast Waltzing
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Original Music Composer
Name: James Atherton
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Jan Pace
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Nicolas Steil
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Jacqueline Kerrin
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Piers McGrail
Department: Camera
Job/Role: Director of Photography
Name: Bernard Beets
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: Ivan Kavanagh
Department: Writing
Job/Role: Screenplay
Name: Ivan Kavanagh
Department: Directing
Job/Role: Director
Name: Dermot Diskin
Department: Editing
Job/Role: Editor
Name: Patrick Drummond
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Supervising Sound Editor
Name: Dominic Wright
Department: Production
Job/Role: Producer
Name: Marc Ridremont
Department: Art
Job/Role: Art Direction
Name: Aza Hand
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound Designer
Name: Aza Hand
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Additional Music
Name: Carlo Thoss
Department: Sound
Job/Role: Sound
Name: John Leslie
Department: Art
Job/Role: Production Design
Name: Jackye Fauconnier
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Job/Role: Costume Design
Name: Emma Gunnery
Department: Production
Job/Role: Casting
Name: Shanan Becker
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Bill Bromiley
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Philippe Logie
Department: Production
Job/Role: Associate Producer
Name: Alice de Sousa
Department: Production
Job/Role: Associate Producer
Name: Véronique Dubray
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Job/Role: Makeup Designer
Name: Marie-Claire Kerrin
Department: Production
Job/Role: Co-Producer
Name: Jean-Michel Rey
Department: Production
Job/Role: Co-Producer
Name: Jonathan Saba
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Will Machin
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Julien Benoiton
Department: Directing
Job/Role: First Assistant Director
Name: Sam Parker
Department: Production
Job/Role: Executive Producer
Name: Will Slattery
Department: Crew
Job/Role: Additional Music
Name: Marina Festré
Department: Production
Job/Role: Co-Producer
Name: Valérie Wery
Department: Directing
Job/Role: Second Assistant Director
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Middling western-drama that has some okay moments but nothing really stands out, including the acting from both Hirsch an Cusack (who does seem to sleepwalk through his role, however). IDK, didn't at all hate it but kind of confused on the messaging, guess it was good for the town to be run by a tyrannical Christian priest?
**_Ugly, bleak, gritty, and enjoyable_** > _The idea was to write a western that would work as a genre film, but which would also comment on the founding of America and what that really meant (and thus, hopefully, commenting on the America of today). The film opens with a burnt American flag, so it touches on subjects such as the genocide of the Native Americans, xenophobia, the oppression and exploitation of women, the law of the "wild west" and capital punishment. My main inspiration when writing were the frontier photographs from the 1850s onwards. The hardship on the people's faces was_ _startlingly apparent, and when you listen to the hynms they sang at the time, they are about hardship, the misery of life, and how life will be better on the other side, in Heaven. It is a very sobering and moving view of the founding of America, and of the immigrant experience. I tried to get some of that into the film, as well as paying homage to the westerns I loved as a child._ - Ivan Kavanagh; "Ivan Kavanagh: Director of _Never Grow Old_" (Davide Abbatescianni); _Cineuropa_ (March 15, 2019) I guarantee you've seen this story before – a good man who either abhors or has renounced violence forced to take up arms so as to protect the innocent from a villain. You can find it deployed in westerns such as John Ford's _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_ (1962), Vincent McEveety's _Firecreek_ (1968), and Clint Eastwood's _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ (1976), and in genre films as varied as Michael Mann's _Collateral_ (2004), James Wan's _Death Sentence_ (2007), and Sylvester Stallone's _Rambo_ (2008). Filmed in Connemara, Ireland (standing in for Oregon), this third feature from writer/director Ivan Kavanagh (_Tin Can Man_; _The Canal_) is the latest to roll out that narrative template. And really, there are next to no surprises in _Never Grow Old_ - chances are everything you think is going to happen does happen. However, this isn't really a criticism. The film wears its predictability like a badge of honour, and Kavanagh is obviously a huge fan of violent revisionist westerns such as Sam Peckinpah's _The Wild Bunch_ (1969) and S. Craig Zahler's _Bone Tomahawk_ (2015). The script isn't going to be winning any awards for originality, but the film has been put together with undeniable craft. It's bleak, gritty, and despairing, and whilst it won't change your life, it is rather enjoyable. Oregon, 1849; the town of Garlow is the last stop on the California Trail prior to reaching the Rocky Mountains. Although Sheriff Parker (Tim Ahern) is nominally in charge, Garlow is really governed by the local Methodist preacher, Pike (Danny Webb), who has forbidden alcohol, gambling, and prostitution. The town's mild-mannered undertaker, Irish immigrant Patrick Tate (Emile Hirsch with an Irish accent that wavers mid-sentence), isn't especially interested in Pike's hellfire sermons, but he converted from Catholicism because it was important to his wife, French immigrant Audrey (Déborah François). Living on the edge of town with their two children, they plan to leave Garlow at some point but are in no major rush to do so. That plan becomes complicated when three men - Christopher 'Dutch' Albert (John Cusack, having an absolute blast), Dumb Dumb (Sam Louwyck), who carries his severed tongue with him, and Sicily (Camille Piston), an Italian immigrant who doesn't speak English - roll into town looking for Bill Crabtree (Paul Ronan), who left Garlow several months prior, although his wife (Anne Coesens) and daughter Emily (Manon Capelle) are still there. Stating that Crabtree stole from him and must be killed, Dutch browbeats Tate into bringing the trio to his home and having Audrey cook for them. Seeing Pike's decrees as an opportunity, Dutch procures a group of prostitutes and reopens the town's saloon, killing anyone who crosses him. With his undertaker business thriving because of the spike in violence, Tate stays out of the situation as best he can, although Audrey is disgusted that he's prospering because of Dutch's actions. Soon, however, Tate's family will come under threat and he'll be forced to decide what he must do. In naming the film _Never Grow Old_ (which is a generic name if ever there was one), I'm assuming Kavanagh is referencing the Southern Gospel hymn "Where We'll Never Grow Old" written by James Cleveland Moore, Sr. in 1914. The song is never mentioned in the film, nor is it used on the soundtrack, but the lyrics have an unmistakable thematic relevance; _I have heard of a land_ _On the faraway strand_ _'Tis a beautiful home of the soul_ _Built by Jesus on high_ _There we never shall die_ _'Tis a land where we never grow old._ The idea of paradise awaiting us in the next life, specifically the notion that the afterlife will be a lot better than our earthly existence, is alluded to throughout the film, mainly by Pike, but also by Audrey, and even Tate and Dutch on occasion (although Dutch references it ironically). And it's really not too hard to imagine a better life than the one Kavanagh presents in Garlow (more on that in a moment). Thematically, _Never Grow Old_ has the structure of a morality tale or a Mystery play, looking at issues such as religious hypocrisy and self-righteousness. It even takes time to briefly address the genocide of Native American people, with Pike sermonising about how the colonists saved the land from "_savages_". The most obvious theme, however, is greed. Tate, for example, is complicit with Dutch's violence insofar as he accepts and ignores it, even profiting indirectly because of it. Audrey is utterly disgusted with this, and she regards their newfound financial prosperity as nothing short of evil. Several of the town's more religious folk think the same thing, and there are multiple references to Tate getting his "_30 pieces of silver_". Indeed, a recurring motif in the film is to cut from Dutch killing someone to Tate cleaning the body to placing two coins on their eyes to closing the coffin to burying the coffin, and finally, to hiding his payment away in a tin buried in the house. When we first see the tin, there's little in it, but as the film goes on, it becomes fuller and fuller. Indeed, the film has several visual moments like this which convey thematic points _sans_ dialogue. The opening shot, for example, shows a tattered American flag hanging on a burnt building, immediately introducing the theme of violence and how life in the Americas was very different from that which was sold to so many before they arrived. In another early shot, we see Pike preaching to a packed church. Later, however, after Dutch has reopened the saloon, we again see Pike preaching, but this time to an almost empty church, which, of course, makes reference to the dwindling church attendance that we're seeing playing out today. Another heavy theme is child prostitution and a scene where a lecherous drunken old man clambers on top of a crying girl of 14 is one of the film's most arresting images, showing us just how low some men can sink. Another nice visual touch, this time in the production design by _John Leslie_ (_The Survivalist_; _Bad Day for the Cut_; _The Devil's Doorway_) is that the saloon is directly across the road from the church, symbolising the battle between these two forces (hedonism and piety) that continues to this day. Indeed, the overall aesthetic design is quite impressive. Garlow is literally a one-road town. However, this isn't the parched, dusty environment of beige, yellow, and light browns that we're all used to seeing in westerns. Rather, it's bleak and forlorn; the buildings are dark brown, almost black, the clouds hardly ever part, it rains a lot, and the road itself is nothing but mud, with the sound design by Aza Hand (_I Am Not a Serial Killer_; _Muse_; _Cardboard Gangsters_) emphasising the squelching of the characters' steps. To compound this sense of squalor, most of the film takes place at night, with cinematographer Piers McGrail (_Let Us Prey_; _Glassland_; _The Cured_) occasionally using only one practical light to illuminate an entire scene. This necessitates that characters drift in and out of the shadows, which adds an extra element of danger to Dutch and his men. The life of a European in the Americas of the 19th century wasn't easy, and one of the film's most successful elements is in showing us some of why that was. In terms of problems, the script isn't exactly original, with every character an archetype we've seen in many other films. Additionally, the slow-burn pace will put some people off. As mentioned, Emile Hirsch joins a venerable list of actors who have completely butchered the Irish accent; everyone from Tom Cruise (_Far and Away_) to Tommy Lee Jones (_Blown Away_) to Val Kilmer (_The Ghost and the Darkness_) to Brad Pitt (_The Devil's Own_). Hirsch isn't as bad as any of these, but his tendency to drop in and out of the inflections on a word-by-word basis is distracting. Another slight issue is that towards the end of the film, Dutch starts reading from the Bible, quoting Revelation 19:17 ("_And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God_"). It's more than a little on the nose, and really, a villain quoting _Revelations_ is itself a cliché. Overall, however, I enjoyed _Never Grow Old_ far more than I expected. It's bleak and gritty, rough-edged and nihilistic, but it's very well made, with some nicely conceived visual shorthand. An uncompromising look at the harshness of frontier life in the 19th century, the film suggests that stoic individualism is no substitute for a vibrant community, and is as thematically dark as it is practically dark. A morality tale in all but name, there's nothing here you haven't seen before, but Kavanagh handles the genre elements well and has made a rather enjoyable film.
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