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This is My Father

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Original title

This is My Father

Year

1998

Running time

120 min.

Country

Ireland

Director

Paul Quinn

Screenwriter

Paul Quinn

Cast

Music

Donal Lunny

Cinematography

Declan Quinn

Producer

Co-production Ireland-Canada;

Father Productions, Filmline International, Hummingbird Communications Ltd

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown of Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland after he discovers an old photograph of her, she who now cannot speak due to a stroke, with a man he has never seen. He suspects this man may be his biological father. On the urging of his sister, Kieran takes his teen-aged nephew Jack on the trip. In Kilronan, Mrs. Kearney, the innkeeper's mother and a bit of a gypsy woman who has lived in the area for the better part of her life, tells Kieran and Jack about life in the town in 1939 when a high-spirited Fiona Flynn, Kieran's mother, started seeing a peat farmer named Kieran O'Day. Kieran O'Day grew up a "poorhouse bastard", and as such he was always shy and considered an outsider amongst the townsfolk. Because of his standing in the community and the differences in their ages (she being only seventeen, he in his ... Written by Huggo

Awards: 1999: National Board of Review: Special Recognition

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This is My Father

1998

Paul Quinn

6.4

(378)