Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
The story
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.
- emigration
- irish-american
- hunger
- socially deprived family
- rain
- famine
- alcoholism
- poverty
- based on memoir or autobiography
- ireland
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ciarán Owens — Middle Frank
- Ronnie Masterson — Grandma Sheehan
- Pauline McLynn — Aunt Aggie
- Liam Carney — Uncle Pa Keating
- Eanna MacLiam — Uncle Pat
- Shane Murray-Corcoran — Young Malachy
- Devon Murray — Middle Malachy
- Peter Halpin — Older Malachy
- Frank Laverty — Young Paddy Clohessy
- James Mahon — Middle Paddy Clohessy
- Laurence Kinlan — Older Paddy Clohessy
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Alan Parker, Laura Jones
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 352 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, David Brown Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Scott Rudin Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
