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In America
- Director: Jim Sheridan
- Writer: Jim Sheridan; Naomi Sheridan
- Producer: Nye Heron; Arthur Lappin
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A film in desperate need of a backstory...because, it starts off in cloud cuckoo-land.
Inexplicably, nominated for 3 Oscars and a recipient of critical acclaim - true, the kids are good but that alone doesn't make a good film and they do get on your tits at Halloween.
It is loaded with errors and, all too frequently, you'll want to stick your fingers in your ears.
A seasonal travelogue through New York with Irish illegal immigrants (the father being a struggling actor - YAWN, an artist neighbour with AIDS) living in poverty in a junkie building - not quite the American dream but a cheap sentimentality written through the pompous eyes of privilege.
Absurdity, like this, that exploits emotion in such a Machiavellian way is simply a disgrace.
Sheridan may have produced some good films but imposing his nepotistic posse onto the world is, frankly, unacceptable and it feels like it is 72 hours long.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Johnny, Sarah and their young daughters Christy and Ariel move to New York from Ireland. With barely any money they find an apartment in a run-down building that is overrun with drug addicts. Johnny, an actor, struggles to get a role and the family eke out an existence. Also hanging over them is the death of their son, Frankie. Then one day the little girls meet and befriend the mysterious, solitary neighbour, Mateo.
Cast & Characters
Paddy Considine as Johnny;
Samantha Morton as Sarah;
Sarah Bolger as Christy;
Emma Bolger as Ariel;
Neal Jones as Immigration Officer #1;
Randall Carlton as Immigration Officer #2;
Ciaran Cronin as Frankie;
Djimon Hounsou as Mateo;
Juan Carlos Hernandez as Papo;
Nye Heron as Blind Man;
Jason Salkey as Tony;
Rene Millan as Steve;
Sara James as Papo's Girlfriend;
Bob Gallico as Theatre Director;
Jason Killalee as Assistant Theatre Director