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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The House of the Spirits
1993
**
Director: Bille August
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Vanessa Redgrave

This cheesy, pompous and lifeless family drama offers a crash course in Chile's history. The cast is impressive, but the story covers a long time span and they are forced to appear in a thick and unconvincing old age make-up through most of the running time. Based on Isabel Allende's novel.