Directed by:
Tom CairnsScreenplay:
Adrian HodgesCinematography:
Sue GibsonCast:
Susan Lynch, Geraldine O'Rawe, Anne-Marie Duff, Brían F. O'Byrne, Gary Lydon, Eanna MacLiam, John Cleere, Bosco Hogan, Eamonn Owens, David Schofield, Ciaran Owens, Ger Ryan, Tony Doyle, Aislín McGuckin (more)Plots(1)
Based on John McGahern's award winning novel and set in 1950's rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran (Tony Doyle), a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him. His daughters, bound together by love and fear of him, struggle painfully to establish their own lives away from the family home, while his sons, resentful of his harsh and at times, violent discipline, manage to break free and break his heart. (official distributor synopsis)
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Susan Lynch
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Gary Lydon
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Aislín McGuckin
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