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Mood:
- BleakEmotionalSentimentalSincereUpliftingBittersweet
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Plot:
- Single ParentFighting the SystemHuman SpiritParents and ChildrenCustodyHopesLife is a BitchSociety more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century50s
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Place:
- Ireland
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Based on:
- Based on BookBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Flag:
- Profanity
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Evelyn, 2002
English
Germany, Ireland, USA, UK, Netherlands
Profile of Evelyn
The mood of Evelyn is uplifting, bittersweet, and bleak. The plot centers around custody issues, a single parent, and the human spirit. It is a drama and period movie. In approach, Evelyn is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is Ireland. Evelyn happens in the 1950s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. Note that it includes profanity.
Summary of Evelyn
Pierce Brosnan stars as Desmond Doyle, an Irishman whose troubles mount after his philandering wife runs away with another man. As a single, unemployed father with a penchant for Dublin's pubs, Doyle is deemed an unfit parent, and his daughter and two younger sons are placed in orphanages. Despite his problems, Doyle is an utterly devoted dad and decides to fight for custody of his children and his right to raise them alone. Doyle's crack pro bono legal team--played by Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn, and Alan Bates--takes his case all the way to the Irish Supreme Court in 1953, challenging the church and courts. Typically dapper Brosnan is exceedingly likable as down-on-his-luck Doyle, a common man who becomes a real-life hero, in this period piece. Sophie Vavasseur is a scene-stealer as Evelyn, Doyle's oldest child and the film's namesake, and Julianna Margulies adopts a believable accent as the barmaid who inspires Doyle to clean up his act if he wants his family back. Based on the true story of a court decision that changed the lives of many Irish families, EVELYN is directed by Bruce Beresford (TENDER MERCIES, DRIVING MISS DAISY).
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Germany, Ireland, USA, UK, Netherlands |
| Release date: | 4 October 2002 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
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as Desmond Doyle
as Bernadette Beattie
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- by: Eddie Cockrell
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- by: Michael Wilmington
