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Evelyn (2002)
September 30, 20021h 32mEN
6.4
110 votes
Overview
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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Bruce BeresfordWriter
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Original Language
English
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CineEvelynIrish Dreamtime
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Peter McGinn
7.0I recently watched this after first seeing it maybe ten years ago. It wasn’t quite as good as I remembered. I mean, I like it okay, but without Pierce Brosnan in it, I am not sure I would have stayed through it. It is a harmless enough story, based on fact, about an Irishman who likes his drink (bordering on a stereotype maybe, says this Irish reviewer who rarely drinks) and whose wife gets fed up with her life when he loses his job. She takes off and, unlike what usually happens here in the good old USA, she leaves the kids behind, the children’s grandmother is so unimpressed with him she…
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