In America (2003)
Directed by Jim Sheridan
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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Tapping into a rich seam of émigré cinema (Jim Sheridan’s 2002 In America is a distant cousin), Brooklyn beautifully evokes the sense of being torn between time, place and identity.
Screenwriter Nick Hornby ( An Education , Wild ) – author of the novels About a Boy and High Fidelity – follows in the tradition of other cautiously optimistic stories of assimilation like Avalon or In America .
There have been many movies about the experience of Irish immigrants to the United States, period and modern, good (“In America”) and bad (“Far And Away”).
Its real comparative cinematic brethren is the great “ In America ,” another film that wore its heart on its sleeve and dared the most cynical to remain cold-hearted.
And then there’s the photo-album writ large-ness of something like Jim Sheridan’s In America.
Belfast doesn’t come close to relaying personal experiences in the way that enhanced Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes , John Boorman’s Hope and Glory , and Jim Sheridan’s In America , just to name three Irish-ethnic movies where the directors’ own lives prompted deep responses universally.
This dynamic - along with newcomers attempting to fit in with a settled, rural community - are the central focal points in this absorbing American immigrant tale, maybe the best one that this critic has seen since director/co-writer Jim Sheridan’s “In America” (2002), about an Irish family moving to New York City, during the 1980s as well.
I understand better why movies like Cinema Paradiso, The Green Mile, and Seabiscuit worked on me the way they did.
I won’t give anything away, but as my guest pointed out after the film, certain parts reminded her of themes found in The Green Mile .
He's Sheridan's unfortunate, if artier, version of the black saints in ''The Green Mile'' and ''The Legend of Bagger Vance.''
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“The Pursuit of Happyness” many times borders on fairy tale territory in the vein of “In America,” in which our characters are always in the area of danger, but never in life threatening danger.