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Hear My Song

Name: Hear My Song
Released: 1991-12-27T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 5.9

There's definitely magic in the air

1991 • 104 min • ★ 5.9 (33) • Released

Comedy

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

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Original title: Hear My Song
Language: EN
Country: IE,GB
Budget: —
Revenue: —

Reviews & Ratings 1

CinemaSerf

Mar 27, 2025 · via TMDB

★ 7.0

I’m not sure I’d ever have had Ned Beatty down as an opera singer, but he holds that role down well in this breezy comedy. It is his Josef Locke who is on the run from HM Inland Revenue and from the doughty policeman “Abbott” (David McCallum) and so finds himself in Eire just as struggling nightclub owner “Mickey” (Adrian Dunbar) is looking for an act to breath some life into his failing business enterprise. After a few escapades involving a rather abruptly terminated sexual experience; some fraudsters and a little semi-slapstick comedy, “Mickey” manages to get to Locke but can he get him onto the stage before, well, any number of complications thwart his plan to entertain the masses, get back his gal (Tara Fitzgerald) and save his business? For some reason, I couldn’t get “Whisky Galore” out of my head watching this. Not because there is anything at all similar about the plots or characters, but because it offers a bit of Celtic whimsy. It’s entertaining in a daft, slightly surreal, manner with a denouement that’s clearly dubbed and a Dunbar who doesn’t exactly get off to a flying start, but does quite engagingly ease himself into the part. It also takes the gentlest of pings at the whole theatrical paraphernalia - epitomised here by Beatty’s white scarf and indoor fedora, and the songs are very much delivered in a rousing vein even if they are sung in a language nobody would have understood but everyone enjoyed - rapturously. It’s a light-hearted and fluffy story that I probably won’t remember, but is one of those films that the UK’s Channel Four creatively backed, is well written and it works well.

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ireland liverpool, england nightclub singer

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Cast 15

Ned Beatty

Josef Locke

Adrian Dunbar

Micky O'Neill

Tara Fitzgerald

Nancy Doyle

William Hootkins

Mr. X

Shirley Anne Field

Cathleen Doyle

David McCallum

Jim Abbott

James Nesbitt

Fintan O'Donnell

Stephen Marcus

Gordon

Gina Moxley

Brenda Ryan

Rúaidhrí Conroy

Grandson Ryan

Harold Berens

Benny Rose

Brian McGrath

Barman

Agnes Bernelle

Receptionist

Pat Laffan

Taxi Driver 1

Frank Kelly

Taxi Driver 2

Crew 12

Sue Gibson

Director of Photography

Lindy Hemming

Costume Design

Peter Diamond

Stunt Coordinator

Peter Chelsom

Director

Peter Diamond

Second Unit Director

Martin Walsh

Editor

David Brown

Associate Producer

Alison Owen

Producer

Glenn Freemantle

Sound Editor

Adrian Dunbar

Screenplay

Peter Chelsom

Screenplay

Peter Chelsom

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US Release Dates 1

Dec 27, 1991

R Theatrical