The Brothers McMullen

The Brothers McMullen (1995)

Sometimes the Best Friends Are the Ones You've Known Your Whole Life.

Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s.

Date of release
1995-08-11
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (107)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Edward Burns
Collection
McMullen Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award

The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 American comedy-drama film written, directed, produced by, and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values—love, sex, marriage, religion and family—in the 1990s. It was the first Fox Searchlight film.

Production

Edward Burns wrote the screenplay in the spring of 1993 while working as a production assistant for Entertainment Tonight in New York City, where he worked for cameraman Dick Fisher, who later produced and edited the film. Burns' own Irish Catholic background fed into the screenplay, and the film was mostly shot in Burns' real-life family home, a house in the Valley Stream community of Long Island, New York.

The film, which was shot on 16mm film, originally cost only $25,000, essentially the cost of raw stock and processing. Burns saved money by placing an advertisement in Backstage magazine looking for Irish-American actors willing to work for free.

When Robert Redford was at the Entertainment Tonight studios for an interview, Burns approached him at the elevator and gave him a copy of the film, asking Redford to watch it. Redford later extended an invitation to show it at the Sundance Film Festival.

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