Brooklyn

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Brooklyn is a period romance movie based on Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name, written by Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley (Closed Circuit). It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and after being picked up by Fox Searchlight became one of the festival’s biggest buys ever. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters.

BROOKLYN is the story of a young woman, Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) who moves from small town Ireland to Brooklyn, NY where, unlike home, she has the opportunity for work and for a future – and love, in the form of Italian- American Tony (Emory Cohen). When a family tragedy brings her back to Ireland, she finds herself absorbed into her old community, but now with eligible Jim (Domhnall Gleeson) courting her. As she repeatedly postpones her return to America, Eilis finds herself confronting a terrible dilemma – a heart-breaking choice between two men and two countries.

Ronan immediately connected with the story after being cast. “I think it was very close to my heart because it was about my people. It was the journey that my parents went on back in the ‘80s; they moved over to New York and they kind of went through all the same things, even though it was a different era and a different time.”

Brooklyn is rated PG.