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Edward Burns returns to Valley Stream for 'Brothers McMullen' sequel
The light gray paint is now a yellow-green and two new wooden railings flank the front steps, but Edward Burns’ childhood home on Marlboro Road in Valley Stream otherwise looks much the same as it did in 1995, when the writer-director used it as the no-cost setting for his low-budget feature debut, “The Brothers McMullen.”
“I wrote a scene into every room in the house, starting with the laundry room in the basement, all the way up through to my old bedroom in the attic,” Burns, 57, says, standing in front of the modest four-bedroom home on a recent chilly Friday afternoon. Gesturing at a small, brick-lined space a few steps from the front door, he adds, “And like the brothers in that film, I spent my entire childhood and teen years, and later my 20s, sitting on that stoop.”
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The finale of Ed Burns’s debut film The Brothers McMullen gives all the characters a happy ending.
In the 1995 movie, Molly (Connie Britton) forgives Jack (Jack Mulcahy) for his infidelities, Barry (Burns) moves in with Audrey (Maxine Bahns), and Patrick (Michael McGlone) and Leslie (Jennifer Jostyn) take off for the West Coast. Thirty years later, Burns says, “I knew that I wanted none of those relationships to have worked out.” (Actors returning for the sequel include Burns, Britton, and McGlone.) He tried to write a sequel twenty years ago, he explained, and “couldn’t crack it.” But then in 2021, “I read an article about how many twenty-somethings were moving back in with their parents,” he says. “I thought, oh, maybe that’s the way into the McMullen sequel.”
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The McMullens Are Back
"The Brothers McMullen" inhabits an honored place in the pantheon of Irish American cinema.
That said, "The Quiet Man" it is not. For one thing, the McMullens are a noisy bunch.
And they inhabit a different time – the middle of the 1990s – and a different place, Long Island as opposed to an imaginary place on the island of Ireland.
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As is the case with all too many standout films the arrival of the comedy-drama Brothers into the cinematic world was a touch and go affair.
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