SYNOPSIS

"Funny, Fiery, sad and simply beautiful"

Running Time: 91 Minutes.

It is the glorious summer of 1936 and Europe is on the verge of terrible change. In the little village of Ballybeg, County Donegal, the Mundy sisters await the return of their brother Jack, a missionary priest now returning to Ireland after many years in Africa. The youngest sister, Christina has a little boy Michael, her love child with an irrepressible travelling salesman called Gerry Evans.

The devoutly Catholic Mundy sisters place the boy Michael at the centre of their world, a world soon to be turned upside down by the return of Jack and by the unexpected arrival of Gerry Evans, on his way to fight the Fascists in Spain.

The Eden of Ballybeg is changed forever but the memory of that summer will always haunt Michael.

Director:
Pat O'Connor



CAST

Meryl Streep: Kate Mundy
Michael Gambon: Father Jack Mundy
Catherine McCormack: Christina Mundy
Kathy Burke: Maggie Mundy
Sophie Thompson: Rose Mundy
Brid Brennan: Agnes Mundy
Rhys Ifans: Gerry Evans
Darrell Johnston: Michael Mundy
Lorcan Cranitch: Danny Bradley
Peter Gowen: Austin Morgan
Dawn Bradfield: Sophie McLoughlin
Marie Mullen: Vera McLoughlin
John Kavanagh: Father Carlin
Kate O'Toole: Chemist



PRESS

"A triumph"
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT. Ronan Farren

"It those Mundy sisters had lived in the 90's rather than the Thirties they could have conquered the world"
NEW YORK TIMES (Maeve Binchy)

"Deeply moving a spellbinding experience, registers all the more powerfully on a second viewing"
THE IRISH TIMES (Michael Dwyer)

"Poignant and tear-jerking"
DAILY MAIL

"A small but gleaming gem"
EMPIRE

"A truly grown up movie, an immaculate cast splendidly led by Meryl Streep"
FILM NIGHT (Barry Norman)