Synopsis
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
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Cast
- Edward BurnsFrancis Sullivan
- Brian BurnsCousin Mike Moran
- Vincent RubinoVinny Boombata
- Jimmy CummingsJ.C.
- Elijah WoodSean Sullivan
- Rosario DawsonGrace Quinonez
- Oliver PlattMoran
- Dara ColemanJohn Coleman
- John DiRestaPete at the Bar
- Malachy McCourtWhitey
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
Suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The impish Wood is a little light as Sean, who's inextricably bound by same family ties that robbed him of a promising future and made him a fugitive from the only life he's even known, but the supporting cast is top-notch. - 50
Variety
Burns' films are invariably better directed and scripted than they are performed, and Ash Wednesday is no exception. Pic's biggest drawback is that the helmer has again cast himself in the leading role. - 50
New York Post
Ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting. - 40
Village Voice
Russell Fine's kinetic camerawork outperforms the plot. - 38
New York Daily News
We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out. - 30
The New York Times
This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.