Meryl Streep stars in this fine screen adaptation of Brian Friel's               award-winning play about five sisters struggling with life and love in 1930s'    Ireland. Catherine McCormack, Michael Gambon and Kathy Burke co-star. "Meryl     Streep has made many a grand acting gesture in her career...but Lughnasa ranks with the best" (Janet Maslin, New York Times). From the director   of Cal and Circle of Friends.                                      Pat O'Connor---Ireland/Great Britain---1998---94 mins.