There are many great Irish films made with the finest acting sons and daughters of Ireland giving up the big Hollywood money for flag and country. Aiden Quinn is in just about all of them. Pierce Brosnan, Steven Rea, Allen Bates, Colm Meany (not in this one), and numerous other fine Irishmen and women. I don't know how Julianna Margulies got in there but....she's always good and so is this film.
share~ Very great performances indeed.
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"I’ve never been sorry that
I saved Edward."
Carlisle Cullen, from New Moon.
Alan Bates isn't Irish and this film is awful
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The film is not awful. I found it an inspiring and beautiful film. IF, however, you are referring to the very end of the film, and the misrepresentation of the blurb regarding what happened after the decision to return Doyle's children to him, then I am in agreement with you. That misrepresentation needs to replaced with a notice about the truth of what really happened after the court's decision to return Doyle's children. People fought for it when the movie was set to be released, apparently (Google Desmond Doyle). Yet twelve years later, the film STILL has the wrong announcement at the end of the film, regarding what really happened to the remaining children of the orphanages.
shareDon't forget Bosco Hogan in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
And say, he got to punch Brosnan's lights out in this!
I'm all right, I'm alllll right!