Release Date: July 3rd, 2015
PG-13|1 hr 49 min
Plot Summary
In 1930s Ireland, political activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) faces deportation for running a community hall for the arts.
Cast: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby, Stella McGirl, Sorcha Fox, Martin Lucey, Mikel Murfi
Director: Ken Loach
Genres: Historical drama
Production Co: Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Element Pictures, Wild Bunch
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
For the first time his ongoing collaboration with scriptwriter Paul Laverty, Loach's studiously safe-hands approach -- typified by regular collaborator George Fenton's near-incessant score -- can't counterbalance fundamental screenplay flaws. show more
It’s just another solid Loach film, an affectionate realist portrait of individuals fighting against state and religious oppression. In this case the setting, as it was for his 2006 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” is Ireland. show more
There's humanity here, on all sides, and a gentle wisdom beneath the raging rhetoric. show more
