Overview
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Details
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Writer
- Alan Parker
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $50,000,000
Cast
Ciarán Owens
Eanna MacLiam
Emily Watson
Joe Breen
Liam Carney
Michael Legge
Pauline McLynn
Robert Carlyle
Ronnie Masterson
Shane Murray-Corcoran
Keywords
1930s
alcoholic father
alcoholism
based on memoir or autobiography
brooklyn
new york city
children in need
dead children
drunkard
emigration
famine
hunger
ireland
irish catholic
irish-american
life in the slums
limerick
poverty
rain
rainy setting
socially deprived family
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