{"id":8350,"date":"2026-01-29T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:17:52","slug":"the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2026\/01\/the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"The Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>1990, Ireland, 107 min.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a life of constant, thankless labor, aged farmer \u201cBull\u201d McCabe (Richard Harris) gets a break. The gorgeous, verdant tract his family has toiled on in Western Ireland for generations is for sale. The townsfolk are happy to step aside for the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> respected elder, who is stern and stoic. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But his plan is derailed when a debonair, deep-pocketed American (Tom Berenger) arrives with plans to pave over Bull\u2019s land and modernize the countryside. McCabe grows increasingly fevered in his fight for the land, which he believes will heal his emotionally fractured family. Jim Sheridan\u2019s melodrama captures the battle between tradition and progress when neither side is right, and it is fueled by Harris\u2019 Oscar-nominated performance. He is unforgettable<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> portraying a perpetually disappointed man fighting his pride and mortality. Based on John B. Keane\u2019s play.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a life of constant, thankless labor, aged farmer \u201cBull\u201d McCabe gets a break. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2026\/01\/the-field\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Field<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","category-mortality-cinema"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}