Ulysses

"A picture brimming with the true aspect of the great novel."-New York Post

Universally heralded as the ground-breaking 20th century novel, James Joyce's Ulysses shattered literary conventions and public mores -- which saw the book banned in several countries, including the U.S. -- finally achieving its current status as a modern masterpiece.Academy Award-winning filmmaker Joseph Strick successfully translates Joyce's unique vision to the screen in this critically acclaimed film with compelling performances by Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford and Maurice Roeves.From an Oscar-nominated screenplay, Strick captures the narrative spirit of Joyce's stream-of-consciousness prose using sound and image montages, flashbacks, dream sequences and inner monologues.

The story follows the meanderings of Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising salesman and Joyce's reflection of Homer's wandering epic hero.Bloom's journey -- sometimes harrowing, sometimes ludicrous, but never epic -- unfolds over twenty-four hours on the coarse streets of Dublin where he joins the sordid revels of a fellow wanderer, the young poet Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego and hero of A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man). Through his trials, Bloom must cope with his own impotence, his lusty wife and her spirited infidelities and a healthy dose of the demons and phantasms plaguing the mind of modern man.