FILM: Small Things Like These
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4/28/26 Small Things Like These
(USA, 2024, 98 mins, color, PG-13)
Starring Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, and Eileen Walsh
Taking place over Christmas in 1985, devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalene laundries - horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women." Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.
“A deliberate film that uses small moments to examine one of the great questions of our time: how good people let bad things happen, and how we might push back against the dark.” Helen O’Hara, Empire Magazine, 11/13/24