Brooklyn
“Two countries, two loves, one heart”
Director
John Crowley
Screenplay
Nick Hornby
Saoirse Ronan gives a luminous, Oscar-nominated performance as Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who emigrates to 1950s Brooklyn for opportunity, builds a new life and falls in love, only to be pulled back to Ireland by a family tragedy and a second romance that forces an impossible choice between two countries and two selves. Director John Crowley, adapting Colm Tóibín's novel, favors restrained, painterly period detail over melodrama, trusting Ronan's expressive stillness to carry the emotional weight. A critical favorite, it's a quietly devastating meditation on immigration, homesickness and the irreversibility of choice.
Release
Oct 20, 2015
Budget
$11M
Country
United Kingdom
Revenue
$62M
Cast
Saoirse Ronan
Eilis Lacey
Domhnall Gleeson
Jim Farrell
Emory Cohen
Tony Fiorello
Jim Broadbent
Father Flood
Julie Walters
Madge Kehoe
Jessica Paré
Miss Fortini
Eve Macklin
Diana Montini
Brid Brennan
Miss Kelly
Fiona Glascott
Rose Lacey
Jane Brennan
Mary Lacey
Nora-Jane Noone
Sheila Heffernan
Jenn Murray
Dolores Grace
Eva Birthistle
Georgina
Michael Zegen
Maurizio Fiorello
Barbara Drennan
Shabby Woman
Eileen O'Higgins
Nancy Byrne
Art Campion
George Sheridan
Emily Bett Rickards
Patty McGuire
Mary O'Driscoll
Miss McAdam
Samantha Munro
Dorothy
Jane Wheeler
Bartocci Customer #1
Alain Goulem
Joshua Rosenblum
Max Walker
Young Man
Erika Rosenbaum
Bartocci Customer #2
Ellen David
Mrs. Fiorello
Reviews
TMDB
7.3/10
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