Crow Road, The Reviews
Newest Review: ... almost embarrassingly REAL at times (we've all had one of those self-pitying/drunken Prentice moments). The Crow Road allows we lucky viewers to briefly follow Prentice's attempts to find his long-lost uncle Rory as well as deal with his issues concerning death, which is a common entity in the McHoan family history. Although on the surface the adaptation sticks faithfully to the plot of the novel, there are actually some important deviations. For one thing, the very absent uncle Rory makes regualr appearces, in which we see him propelling his hapless nephew towards the truth of his disappearance. Although such a move would have been a dis... more
Customer Crow Road, The Reviews (1)
by - written on 10/02/05, updated on 23/02/05 (Very useful, 557 readings)
Rating:
Anyone out there who was worried that the adaptation of Iain Banks' supreme novel 'The Crow Road' was going to fall a bit short of the author's (and his fans) high standards need not have bothered. The BBC adaptation, broadcast some time ago now (1996, to be precise) gained rave reviews, and I plan to deviate in no way in my overview of the recently released DVD. For those who are unfamiliar with the story, 'The Crow Road' is a complex and darkly comic look at an unconventional Scottish family in the 1980s. The McHoan family is, by no means, normal. A broad look at the family tree would show a half-hearted murderer, a missing uncle, a Commie atheist and a hero ... Read the complete review
