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Brenda Fricker
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Stone of Destiny
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kate Mara, Billy Boyd, Ciaron Kelly
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Certificate: 
The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.
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68%
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How About You
(2007)
Starring: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady
Director: Anthony Byrne
Certificate: 
Ellie is left in charge of an elderly residential home, and while most of the residents have left to spend Christmas with their families, four residents known as 'The Hard Core' remain. The Hard Core have become impossible to live with. In fact, their rude and objectionable behavior is so terrible ..read more »
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80%
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Inside I'm Dancing
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Certificate: 
On meeting Michael, Rory decides that they must change their lives and so concocts a plan to beat the system. Escaping Carrigmore Home for the Disabled, the duo hire Siobhan to take care of their every need. Her arrival, however, brings with it emotions that Rory and Michael have never experienced...
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69%
from 20,318 members
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Trauma
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris
Director: Marc Evans
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Awakening from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben’s (Colin Firth) world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben is out of hospital and, attempting to rebuild his life, he moves home and is befriended by Charlotte (Mena Suvari), his beautiful young ..read more »
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from 11,627 members
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Omagh
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Gerard McSorley, Michele Forbes, Brenda Fricker
Director: Pete Travis
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15 August 1998: the Real IRA exploded a bomb on a crowded street in Omagh, just into Northern Ireland, to halt the Good Friday accords and peace process; 29 people died. Families formed the Omagh Support Group to press the police in their inquiries. The film focuses on the Gallagher family, who ..read more »
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69%
from 246 members
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Veronica Guerin
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Gerard McSorley
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate: 
The true story of the assassinated Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin. Veronica was the crime reporter for the Sunday Independant investigating the criminal underworld in Ireland when she was gunned down in 1996.
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67%
from 10,466 members
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Conspiracy of Silence
(2003)
Starring: Jonathan Forbes, Hugh Bonneville, Brenda Fricker
Director: John Deery
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A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male ..read more »
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26%
from 5 members
Due for release on 22nd February 2010
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The War Bride
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Molly Parker
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
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During the London Blitz, two childhood friends fall for Canadian soldiers. Lily (Anna Friel, THE LAND GIRLS) marries her man and becomes pregnant, like so many young women at the time, just as the father is posted abroad. She emigrates with her young baby to Canada as a 'war bride' to stay with her ..read more »
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62%
from 1,297 member
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Torso
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kathleen Robertson, Victor Garber, Brenda Fricker
Director: Alex Chapple
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The case of Evelyn Dick is one of the most notorious in Canada's history. The Black Widow, as she was known, was convicted of the brutal 1946 murder of her streetcar conductor husband--only the bloody torso of the corpse of her husband was ever found. Mrs. Dick, a stunning beauty, admitted to ..read more »
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from 145 members
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Pete's Meteor
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Brenda Fricker, Mike Myers, Alfred Molina
Director: Joe O'Byrne
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Mike Myers stars in his first dramatic role as Pete, the title character in this Irish drama. Pete is an ex-junkie in the process of turning his life around when his two best friends die unexpectedly. Pete steps in to help raise the deceased's children. He moves in with the children and their ..read more »
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from 23 members
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Resurrection Man
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, John Hannah
Director: Marc Evans
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Loosely based on real events in 1970s Belfast, Victor Kelly is a young Protestant man who hates Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. Ryan, a reporter, soon tries to uncover the murderer and gain prestige for himself, while emerging as a local legend, Victor sinks ..read more »
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from 320 members
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A Time To Kill
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ..read more »
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73%
from 7,133 members
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A Man Of No Importance
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Director: Suri Krishnamma
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The passengers on bus conductor Alfie Byrne's route are treated daily to excerpts from Oscar Wilde. Each year he produces a play in the church community hall and this year wants to produce 'Salome'. He finds his leading lady in the form of Adele but being homosexual is unhappy when his sister Lily ..read more »
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from 120 members
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So I Married An Axe Murderer
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Nancy Travis, Anthony La Paglia, Amanda Plummer
Director: Thomas Schlamme
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Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) is a love-shy 'poet' living in San Francisco, who frequents neighbourhood coffee houses reciting his tortured odes to unrequited love. Burned by a string of failed relationships, Mackenzie's fear of commitment has intensified into outrageous extremes of paranoia. When ..read more »
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from 4,173 members
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The Brides Of Christ
(1991)
Starring: Russel Crowe, Russell Crowe, Brenda Fricker
Director: Ken Cameron
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Inside the convent walls of Santo Spirito, six remarkable women find themselves caught between centuries old tradition and the radical social changes reshaping the secular world in the 1960s. Bound by their vows, these "Brides of Christ" struggle to confront questions they cannot answer, ..read more »
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66%
from 15 members
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The Field
(1990)
Starring: Richard Harris, Tom Berenger, John Hurt
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Based on a play by John B. Keane, THE FIELD tells the story of Bull McCabe (Richard Harris), a tradition-bound Irishman who fights to retain the land that his family has been farming for generations. McCabe, who rents the land from a young widow (Frances Tomelty), hopes to take full possession of ..read more »
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64%
from 633 members
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My Left Foot
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood ..read more »
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73%
from 9,200 members
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Watermelon
on DVD
Starring: Jamie Draven, Des Cave, Brenda Fricker
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Certificate: 
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After being dumped by her boyfriend soon after she moved to London, Claire begins a relationship with a man who helped her get a job. However, she discovers she's pregnant.
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from 455 members
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Watermelon
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(2003)
Starring: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Mcmenamin
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
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Run time: 74 minutes
After being dumped by her boyfriend soon after she moved to London, Claire begins a relationship with a man who helped her get a job. However, she discovers she's pregnant.
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62%
from 22 members
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Conspiracy of Silence
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(2003)
Starring: Jonathan Forbes, Hugh Bonneville, Brenda Fricker
Director: John Deery
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Run time: 86 minutes
A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male ..read more »
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My Left Foot
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(1989)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker
Director: Jim Sheridan
Certificate: 
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Run time: 98 minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood ..read more »
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79%
from 133 members
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TRUE GRIT 4 July 2005
...with the only bit of him over which he had sufficient control - his left foot. Brenda Fricker, as his constantly-pregnant mother, gives an equally impressive performance.
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All style and no substance 20 July 2005
