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- 2015
- John Crowley
- 107 mins
- 12A
Summary
Romantic drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson. County Wexford, 1950: young Eilis Lacey is sponsored for a job in America by a visiting priest and so she leaves her mother and sister for New York. The metropolis offers the chance of a career and romance, but the big city can be a lonely place for a small-town girl.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Dave Aldridge
Saoirse Ronan, star of Atonement and Hanna, impressively comes of age in this sweet, crowd-pleasing tale of a woman torn between two worlds. Adapted by Nick Hornby (About a Boy) from the novel by Colm Tóibín, it's set in the austere 1950s, with Ronan playing a small-town Irish girl who relocates to Brooklyn, New York. Surviving both acute homesickness and the jibes of other girls in her digs (run by a comically excellent Julie Walters), Ronan eventually finds romance with an Italian-American (Emory Cohen). But then there's a tragedy back home and she is torn, not only between new and old worlds, but also between two loves - Cohen and eligible bachelor Domhnall Gleeson. Brooklyn is the sort of film that you slip warmly and comfortably into like a well-worn pair of slippers. It breaks no bounds, offers no edges. But it's a hugely likeable piece of old-fashioned entertainment from Boy A director John Crowley that will have old softies everywhere shedding tears of joy and sadness.
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rolenameEilis LaceySaoirse RonanJim FarrellDomhnall GleesonTonyEmory CohenMrs KehoeJulie WaltersFather FloodJim BroadbentPattyEmily Bett RickardsMaurizioMichael ZegenSheilaNora-Jane NooneMr FiorelloPaulino NunesMiss KellyBrid Brennan
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rolenameDirectorJohn Crowley
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Theatrical distributor
Lionsgate
Released on
2015-11-06
Languages
English | Latin | Irish
Guidance
Swearing, a sex scene.
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DVD and Blu-ray
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