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Brosnan plays an Irishman in the early 1950s
whose wife leaves him with
three small children to care for, and he is
unemployed. Family services
takes his kids away and puts them in catholic
schools that function as
orphanages, and when he gets a job, he finds
out that legally, he can't
get his kids back out without his wife's
signature...and she's gone for
good (ends up in Australia).
This is the story of his challenge to the Irish legal system that saved not only his kids, but others in the same situation (no, I'm not giving away the ending, it was obvious from the trailers). Pretty good. Brosnan is less wooden than is his wont (I don't even go see those Bond things any more, he is SO not good at them) and a little more human and approachable. The kids are cute, especially Evelyn, and the lawyers are curmudgeonly and interesting. Not great, but not a bad way to spend an evening when you have nothing else to do. |
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