Small Things Like These
2024, PG-13, 98 min.
Directed by Tim Mielants, Starring Cillian Murphy, Clare Dunne, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Joanne Crawford, Amy De Bhrún, Abby Fitz, Eileen Walsh, Ian O’Reilly, Liadan Dunlea.

This Irish drama about the infamous Magdalene laundries is based on a Claire Keegan novel and stars Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) as a coal merchant whose eyes are opened to the church’s abuses.

This article appears in November 8 • 2024.

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