Top billed cast

1. 

   Pierce Brosnan

   Desmond Doyle

2. 

   Aidan Quinn

   Nick Barron

3. 

   Julianna Margulies

   Bernadette Beattie

4. 

   Stephen Rea

   Michael Beattie

5. 

   John Lynch

   Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe

6. 

   Sophie Vavasseur

   Evelyn Doyle

7. 

   Alan Bates

   Thomas Connolly

8. 

   Niall Beagan

   Dermot Doyle

9. 

   Hugh McDonagh

   Maurice Doyle

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2020-08-24

I recently watched this after first seeing it maybe ten years ago. It wasn’t quite as good as I remembered. I mean, I like it okay, but without Pierce Brosnan in it, I am not sure I would have stayed through it.

It is a harmless enough story, based on fact, about an Irishman who likes his drink (bordering on a stereotype maybe, says this Irish reviewer who rarely drinks) and whose wife gets fed up with her life when he loses his job. She takes off and, unlike what usually happens here in the good old USA, she leaves the kids behind, the children’s grandmother is so unimpressed with him...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• orphanage
• based on true story
• christmas